Subj : Re: Losing Out
To   : Ruth Haffly
From : Dave Drum
Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 05:46:02

-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> the old desk phone that I kept and find a telephone jack to plug it
 DD> in. Then it worked fine .... the telephone company has its own power
 DD> source.

 RH> And a privatly owned telephone company (where I grew up) has its own
 RH> quirks. Wasn't until I was in 4th, maybe 5th grade that they got rid of
 RH> the operator except for long distance calls; that took several more
 RH> years before we could dial it ourselves.

 DD> I think all (or nearly) of the small TelCo operations have been
 DD> brought un the ATT (Ma Bell) or ITT (General Telephone) umbrella.

 RH> I think when we were in town for my dad's funeral (December, 2017), the
 RH> telephone company was still privatly owned.

 DD> I remember the first phone of which I was aware. The one phone in
 DD> the house hung on the wall, did not have even a rotary dial, and
 DD> did have a crank on the side which spun a magneto. I was too short
 DD> at the time to be able to use it without standing on a chair. Then

 RH> Those are antiques for me.

For me, as well. My relatives in Southern Illinois kept their old hand
cranked phones when the phone company went to smaller desk phones and
operators. Since they all lived on more-or-less adjoining farms Uncles
Tom and Rob ran the wire connecting up the network for a family phone
company.

 DD> we got all modern and had a "desk" phone - still sans dial. When

 RH> We had one of those too. My folks got an extention phone in their
 RH> bedroom when the town went dial.

 DD> you picked up the hand set and put it to your ear after a few
 DD> seconds you'd hear a nasal query of "Number please". Phones in
 DD> those days (after the wooden wall phones) were like Ford motorcars
 DD> used to be. Any colour you'd like as long as it was black.   Bv)=

 RH> Exactly right! And my parent's main dial phone (and first extention)
 RH> were black for many decades.

 DD>       Title: Cell Phone Cake
 DD>  Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Candies
 DD>       Yield: 15 Servings

 RH> One of our Vacation Bible School curriculums is on Wisdom. The first
 RH> unit deals with wisdom calling so the last time we did it, for crafts
 RH> the kids made "cell phones". Steve cut out/base painted wooden cell
 RH> phone shapes. Kids added a peel and stick keyboard and their memory
 RH> verse was put in the screen area.

Flippers or smarty-pants phone? We used to weave pot-holders at our 
summer-time chucch day-camps. And braid lanyards and bracelets.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Camp Trail Mix
 Categories: Five, Nuts, Grains, Fruits
      Yield: 20 servings

      6 c  Honey-oat cereal
      2 c  Peanuts
      1 c  Dried cranberries
      1 c  Carob chips
    1/2 c  Sunflower seeds

  Combine the cereal, peanuts, cranberries, carob chips,
  and sunflower seeds in a mixing bowl. Store at room
  temperature in an airtight container. 

  Yield: 10 cups

  RECIPE FROM: https://www.allrecipes.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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