[Boatanchors] WAS Goodies NOW Bell

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

We could only call the adjoining town without a toll.  To call the town on the other side of the MAIN town (4 miles away) was a toll call.  BOO HISS!
 
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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
* (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
* k2gkk hotmail com * 
* Oklahoma City, OK * 
* USAF & FAA (Ret.) * 
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> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:38:51 -0400
> From: rbethman at comcast.net
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] WAS  Goodies  NOW Bell
> 
> Let us re-look how it *really* was:
> 
> You paid a monthly fee per each phone.  It was theirs *NOT* yours!
> 
> You paid to move any line in the home.  It was theirs *NOT* yours!
> 
> So, I ask this:  How much would y'all be paying per phone per month today?
> 
> The next phone jack you move to another room, or ADD another one, How 
> much would y'all pay today?
> 
> I very well remember ONE phone in the house.
> 
> It was any color as long as it was black and all metal.
> 
> I don't know about you folks, BUT, I sure enjoy having whatever color 
> the wife wants, where she decides it will be for perhaps 6 months, and I 
> have the tone generator, a roll of 4wire "Jake", and my own "BUTT SET".
> 
> Those days at the top of this *WERE* the days of the Monopoly!
> 
> Gee, I can call about 40 miles in any direction *AND* not pay a TOLL!
> 
> I think I like it the way it is.  Do you think you'd have wireless 
> phones all over the house under the *OLD* days?
> 
> YMMV  This is *MY* $0.02 worth.  *** You weren't billed for this 
> message. ***
> 
> Regards, Bob - N0DGN