And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I just had a nephew bring 4 of his friends over to use my house phone. They didn't know how to use the rotating dial. They did get a kick out of the push button phone in the shop.
When I was a kid in the 60's my Grandmother told me about party lines and phones you had to crank to get started. Kids these days view a dial or pushbutton phone with the same level of curiosity and bemusement. Sic transit...
I did the same for NYT. Loved all the grease(garage semi-coin)in the coin chutes and the fun trying to find a replacement part. Was NJ Bell as cheap as NYT in the spare-parts dept?
My 40 year old daughter recently reminded me that I was an antique when I commented that there were no telephone booths OR clocks in public any more.
ReplyDeleteI just had a nephew bring 4 of his friends over to use my house phone. They didn't know how to use the rotating dial. They did get a kick out of the push button phone in the shop.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in the 60's my Grandmother told me about party lines and phones you had to crank to get started. Kids these days view a dial or pushbutton phone with the same level of curiosity and bemusement. Sic transit...
ReplyDeleteDrop a dime on the bad guy.
ReplyDeleteIt's a quarter after 3.
ReplyDeleteI lived without a cell phone as long as I could. I told my co-workers that if I called in sick I made it to pay phone so I'm not that sick.
ReplyDeleteOne day I got sick and the last pay phone was gone. I bought a cell phone so I call in sick.
50+ years ago I used to repair the multi-slot (Quarter-Dime-Nickel), rotary dial coinboxes for NJ Bell.
ReplyDeleteI did the same for NYT. Loved all the grease(garage semi-coin)in the coin chutes and the fun trying to find a replacement part.
DeleteWas NJ Bell as cheap as NYT in the spare-parts dept?