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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:59 AM Original message |
Anyone know by what year was it common for most U.S. homes to have phones? |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. Earlier than that, I think. Probably by the '30s except in some rural areas. |
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SCantiGOP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 11:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. at a small town I lived in years ago |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Berryville, Ark. had five-digit numbers through the '70s |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. So, even working class people in big cities probably all had phones after WWII. |
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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
4. There were over 3M phones in 1904 |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
5. My grandparents didn't have a phone until the 1970s |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 06:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. My grandparents were cheap too. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. I remember seeing one in 1965 or so. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. Well, I was born in 1939 and I remember |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. We got a phone in the early 1950s. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
11. I lived in a lady's house in 1984. She had an old phone from the 1920s still hooked |
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