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I kinda liked George of the Jungle. Rodger Ramjet was kool, too!
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I've used Motorola from the old brick phone to the flippers and the new smarty-pants phones. Currently using a Moto Z, which was a replacement for the Turbo II that drowned when I sank my sailboat.
Does anybody remember Party Lines? 
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Cocaine?Does anybody remember Party Lines?
Does anybody remember Party Lines?
We had one when I was a kid in the '50's. You could tie up the whole network so no one could make calls or listen in on others' calls.
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Does anybody remember Party Lines?
we had them up to '60 .. they had reduced the number of families on ours to just 4 but that was just all part of living in a rural area . In '61 we moved to an Industrial Military Complex major University ( texas a & m ) area and it's been a continuous new world ever since.
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Would you believe at the farm our telephone had a crank on the side to generate rings. Huge oaken thing.
We went CRAZY MODERN then: We got a black phone with our number on it:
BAldwin 3-4113-J
No dial. You picked it up and a lady said, "Numba Puhleeze".
TINS.
Late Edit Add: the "J" was our phone on the party line. We were not the farthest into the alphabet on the line.
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George, George George of the jungle strong as he an be....watch out for that tree!
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We had one we always listened in LOLDoes anybody remember Party Lines?
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Old friend and family been visiting from lower Cal, he's been moving to Texas for 30 years now and Florida for 20 years .. moving good stuff but he left alot of gift goodies and one being Sundae Driver including a few beans. Have not grown since last year since the ambulance accompanying constable kept spotlighting one of my plants as the EMTs were loading my wife up . Anyway Sundae Driver is just that, relaxing.
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I ask a friend once who has since passed what it cost for that half ounce of coke and his reply was .. ' his family '
yep, my last line was '88
yep, my last line was '88
My Dad and his friend use go Catfishing on Red River with an old Crank Telephone. The electricity knocks out Catfish because of the soft spot in the top of their heads. Brought a 96lb Blue home one night. They always got big Catfish with that damn thing. And yes they are illegal because it can kill small fish.
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That's a russian frag grenade being used in a russian movie , .. 1.5 seconds with fragmentation grenades, but it does look lke the hostage had his head blown off. You can hear the director call for camera and action at the first.
I ran across a system like that still in existence in DuBois, Wyoming in spring of '70. A bunch of us "long haired freaks" were traveling together in an empty U-Haul truck up from Boulder to wherever it took is. We were heading to Yellowstone and DuBois is the last town going West before it. A little one street town with rustic western buildings, it was pretty busy with the through traffic, last gas, food and restrooms before the wilderness. Anyway, we stopped in there at the General Store to get gas and supplies and some of us were thinking of getting pie pans to pan for gold. When we walked in all activity in the store slowed down and a young girl came and asked if we needed help. Mind you, we were a very diverse and colorful group of strange people to them. We didn't immediately respond to her, just a moment but then the proprietor came over and accused us of ignoring her daughter and not being polite.
When we tried to respond, she accused us of wanting to steal things and then she walked over to this old "Mayberry" phone used by Andy Griffith. I had seen it walking in and just thought it was decorative. Well, she walks over to that phone with a crank and no dial, picks up the ear horn and puts it to her ear and speaks into the mouthpiece and says, "Sarah, get me the Sheriff, please". She then proceeded to talk to the sheriff about these strange people causing trouble at her store and would he please come and get rid of us. And by golly, in just a minute or two, here comes the sheriff and deputy. Fortunately, I have a gift for talking my way out of those circumstances and explained that we just were hoping to get the pie plates for panning and didn't realize the young lady was standing there for us really. No disrespect meant nor wanted any trouble. They made us leave the store but that was it. Then we got out of there as quickly as that truck would take us.
Curiously, I went back through there again the following year and the place had changed, even had a motel with modern phones. One of the friends I was travelling with got sick and we had to stay there for a couple of weeks. The townspeople where incredibly hospitable and fed us elk steaks and other good things and they laughed when I told them of my previous experiences there. I expect the place has radically changed since those days just like everywhere else but there's no much room for expansion there since it sits right up against the Tetons. Beautiful place..
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