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Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation are receiving electricity and broadband — for the first time, EVER.
I remember as a kid listening to relatives talk about electricity going out to the rural areas and since I'd never lived without electricity was struck that I knew people who had lived most of their lives without it. My Grandparents had one of those old wind up party line phones.
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My Grandparents had one of those old wind up party line phones. - Lapsody
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We had one of those in my parents home in Minnesota where I was born. I still remember our phone number was two longs and a short. This was in the 1950's in rural MN.
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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...
