[Fiji Hill]

We rejoiced when we got our first private phone line in 1960. No longer would we have to share the phone with the chatterbox housewife a couple doors down.

[llevrok]

We rejoiced when we got our first private phone line in 1960

We still had an operator. HQM1138 was our phone number. As a little kid, I could say "I want to talk to my Daddy" and the operator knew who to connect me to with a phone number (much like Sara in the Andy Griffith Show).

Getting a dial phone (about 1962) was like talking on the most high tech CIA gadget I could imagine back then. The day they turned on the dial service, the phone system crashed from every one trying it out.