Subject: Re: Well...
Ah, yes... late '40's and early 50's... Remember it well...

Living in California, visiting occasionally to Aunt and Uncle in 'rural' part of Phoenix (now completely over run by the city), when we visited, they had to keep an eye on nosey me to stop listening in to their neighbors' conversations... there were four houses on the same line... I don't remember Aunt's rings...

Off to Canada to live for a few years... VERY rural Edmonton... NO phone... no lines out there period, and too expensive to consider... family of six, we survived somehow...