Age test! NO LBC CONTENT

[Ed & Kris Curtis]

So tell us Badger - Exactly what were you smoking? Ed TA 1128

----- Original Message ----- From: "BADGER" mrbadger@cox.net> To: "MG-TABC" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT > You had phones???!!!!!!!!!! > Where I grew up, we communicated by smoke signals. Our "number" was three > long puffs followed by two short ones. > Badger >

[Badger]

> So tell us Badger - Exactly what were you smoking? > > Ed > TA 1128

I didn't inhale.... Really..... I promise. Badge

[Bullwinkle]

<<>> "new" kind of telephone - it had a round dial on it that spins to get the numbers! <<>> Our original still hangs on the wall, circa 1957. <<>> Outhouses <<>> Relatives in the country used these. The closest I came was with the house with the Heatrola. There was a stool in the basement, running water in the kitchen sink, but no hot water, and no bathroom. I remember when it was added in 1947. I could tell about my grandmother getting a refrigerator in 1951 and still using a coal range. The only other electric appliances she had were the lights and radio. She had the privey. Blake

[Donald Wilkinson]

Hey Chip, wanna bet? This phone system had hand crank magnetos (ringers)in the wooden boxes, Walter Winchell style handsets with the side receiver hooks, and two #6 dry cells, (remember those?), in the basement to bias the line; (no central office power supply). This was in Black Creek, Ont. (Canada), just across the Niagara River from a place you never heard of, called "Buffalo", New York, USA. It snows a lot there, and has a football team; (Oh, & a hockey team, too, both losers). Don TC 7993

>From: Chip Old fold@bcpl.net> >To: MG-TABC mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> >Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT >Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:17:55 -0400 (EDT) > >On Wed, 8 May 2002, Donald Wilkinson wrote: > > > You had actual live operators on yer party lines???!!!!!!! On our party > > lines, anywhere from eight to thirty parties, one had to signal one's > > desired number oneself, with the crank. For example, our number was 13, > > hence one long crank, and three shorts. Lotta cranks, eh? (this was in > > Canada). > >Don, even you aren't that old! > >-- >Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 XPAG7430 NEMGTR #2271 >Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO CT3479E >fold@bcpl.net > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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[Sam Suklis]

Blake: We still have a Roper gas range, was here when we bought this house years ago... the first one installed in Albany, in 1939. Because one of the oven-doors actually conceals a gas heater that keeps that end of the house warm when it gets really really cold, my wife insisted we keep it. Put in over 200 hours restoring it, had everything re-porcelained in Seattle, and it's a wonderful example of "new" not necessarily being better. All things considered, I've had more fun restoring MG's. My wife loves to tell friends that the stove is even older than our MG, and far more reliable. Sam SS

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bullwinkle" yd3@nvc.net> To: "BADGER" mrbadger@cox.net> Cc: "MG-TABC" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT > >> > "new" kind of telephone - it had a > round dial on it that spins to get the numbers! > >> > Our original still hangs on the wall, circa 1957. > > >> > Outhouses > >> > Relatives in the country used these. The closest I came was with the > house with the Heatrola. There was a stool in the basement, running > water in the kitchen sink, but no hot water, and no bathroom. I > remember when it was added in 1947. > > I could tell about my grandmother getting a refrigerator in 1951 and > still using a coal range. The only other electric appliances she had > were the lights and radio. She had the privey. > > Blake > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >

[Donald Wilkinson]

You avoid guns and whiskey???!!!!!!!!!!Don TC 7993

>From: "BADGER" mrbadger@cox.net> >To: "MG-TABC" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> >Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT >Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:39:00 -0400 > > > You had phones???!!!!!!!!!! > > Where I grew up, we communicated by smoke signals. Our "number" was >three > > long puffs followed by two short ones. > > Badger > > > >Later on, we got an unlisted number trying to avoid the telemarketers >selling guns and whiskey. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Donald Wilkinson" digitaldon@hotmail.com> > > To: fold@bcpl.net>; mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT > > > > > > > You had actual live operators on yer party lines???!!!!!!! On our >party > > > lines, anywhere from eight to thirty parties, one had to signal one's > > > desired number oneself, with the crank. For example, our number was >13, > > > hence one long crank, and three shorts. Lotta cranks, eh? (this was in > > > Canada). > > > > > > Don > > > TC 7993 > > > > > > > > > >From: Chip Old fold@bcpl.net> > > > >To: MG-TABC mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> > > > >Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT > > > >Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:48:19 -0400 (EDT) > > > > > > > >On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, BADGER wrote to MG-TABC: > > > > > > > > > I was cleaning out the attic the other day with my 12 year old son > > when > > > > > he got all excited because he had found a "new" kind of telephone >- >it > > > > > had a round dial on it that spins to get the numbers! Badger > > > > > > > >What's it doing in the attic? Three of the five phones in my house >are > > > >old dial phones. One of them has been in continuous use since 1954, >when > > > >it replaced the dial-less phone we used when we were still on a party > > > >line. You picked up the phone and waited for the operator to say >"number > > > >please". Or, if someone else on the same party line was already >using > > the > > > >line, you hung up and waited a while before trying again. > > > > > > > >-- > > > >Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 XPAG7430 NEMGTR #2271 > > > >Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO CT3479E > > > >fold@bcpl.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to >http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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[Donald Wilkinson]

Can't top that one. Don TC 7993

>From: Gene Gillam anngene@bellsouth.net> >To: "BADGER" mrbadger@cox.net>,"MG-TABC" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> >Subject: Re: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT >Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:43:27 -0400 > > >Badger wrote: > > Where I grew up, we communicated by smoke signals. > >Holy dancing cows!!! You had fire????? > >Grin, >Gene > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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[Donald Wilkinson]

Sure, they were (are!) bullet proof; but is it the "french" kind, or the real upright with the side hook for the receiver? Don TC 7993

>From: Locktc7440@aol.com >To: digitaldon@hotmail.com, fold@bcpl.net, mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT >Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:53:27 EDT > >I still have an old dial type in the basement...works good!!!

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[Donald Wilkinson]

Yeah, but you stayed in shape & had muscular arms instead of muscular mouths.

>From: Locktc7440@aol.com >To: anngene@bellsouth.net, mrbadger@cox.net, mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT >Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:59:59 EDT > >You lucky guys that had fire and smoke... We used hollow logs and big >sticks!!! > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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[Jeff & Merryl Redman]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff & Merryl Redman" redcigar@ozemail.com.au> To: "Ray" Spook01@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT > G'day Ray, > All this chat about phones reminds me of a time around late 1980's - that's > in the last century - a friend had just installed a car-phone in his > MGBGTV8, all very yuppie at that time. > We were all attending lunch at a posh garden restaurant. > Just for a laugh we had slipped a heavy black 30's- style bakelite > telephone, the type with a winder in the place later occupied by the chrome > circular dialing bizzo, between the seats of the Tickford. > To complete the installation we had a spool of cable neatly rigged > to the spare wheel, the free end of the cable paid out to be hidden in some > bushes. > > Amazing the number of people who were fooled. > Even convinced the owner of a Jag that we had a range of 150 yards before > the cable ran out. > > Thet tell me you can actually get phones these days that will fit in your > pocket! > > Regards > Jeff > TA2828 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray" Spook01@comcast.net> > To: "Donald Wilkinson" digitaldon@hotmail.com>; fold@bcpl.net>; > mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:30 PM > Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Age test! NO LBC CONTENT > > > > All, > > You guys are killing me!! I remember US numbers with stuff like > GReenfield > > 2-3847, and my Grandmother, who lived in the country in the South had a > > party line. > > The first time we moved to England, if you wanted to call relatives in the > > States first you had to ring up the overseas operator, give her the > number, > > and then when the call went through, she rang you back. > > Our phone number in the village of Cheam was only four or five numbers > long! > > Our house at 41 Nonsuch Walk was heated by a combination coal/coke/steam > > system........and it was my job to get up at 0430 to start the fire in the > > boiler warm it up... First the coal, then the coke when the fire got hot > > enough, then turn on the valve in the output once the needle came off the > > rest. Pretty soon, you couldn't see your breath anymore, and everyone > else > > got up. > > The bus to school at the base came at 0600, stopping only up the road, so > > you had to wake up quickly. No whining tolerated. In fact, far less > > whinging all around.... > > The second time we moved there in the mid '60's after a short stint in the > > US we had "mod cons"! > > I am glad that no one took offense at the questionnaire. I am enjoying > the > > responses! > > Best, > > Ray > > > > > > > You had actual live operators on yer party lines???!!!!!!! On our party > > > lines, anywhere from eight to thirty parties, one had to signal one's > > > desired number oneself, with the crank. For example, our number was 13, > > > hence one long crank, and three shorts. Lotta cranks, eh? (this was in > > > Canada). > > > > > > Don > > > TC 7993 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > >