[Clyde]

 

[rmichael63]

I fall into that catagory ...

 

[Rugerfan57]

Amen to that. So true. What were we talking about?

 

[rman]

During my childhood, we had an old crank wall phone on a party line. The number was 63F11. If you were on the same party line, you cranked the phone for one long ring and one short ring. Thus the 11 at the end of the number. Everyone on the party line could hear the ring for anyone on the party line. It made it difficult to talk to your girlfriend in private.

Password? What's a password?

 

[jayhdavis]

View attachment 191806

WE9-2438 old phone number. Forgot the password I had created yesterday and created a new one today. This time I wrote it down, somewhere.

 

[Nam Vet]

I take Prevagen and it really works. Today I remembered that I forgot to take it yesterday!

 

[DQL5150]

My childhood phone was on a party line. Glad to have the memory for comparison. 70's rural Virginia. You cut in on your neighbor's conversation or vice versa and worked it out. No passwords required.

 

[pasound]

DI3-0652. Started out as a party line, then finally a private line when I was about in the 3rd grade. Had that until I left for college. Someone asks me now for my phone number, and I still have to snap back to reality and ask - "my land line or my cell?"...

 

[maddmatter1970]

I am lucky. My childhood phone number is still in the family. I remember it. Passed from my Grandparents and is now one of my Aunts numbers.
Windows makes me change passwords at work every freaking 90 days. I dread it. Always 1776 themed though.

 

[ShooterGranny]

Party lines: The last one was when our kids (part of them anyway) were teenagers and the boy next door would get on the phone with his girlfriend, for hours. They didn't much talk, they were just there. So if we needed to use the phone we just picked it up and said, "Eric, time to get off the phone!"
😊 😊 😊

 

[ShooterGranny]

Password? What's a password?

Fluffy. Just use fluffy. Everyone else does. 🤪🤪

 

[rmichael63]

My childhood phone number is still being used by my mom ...

 

[rmichael63]

Fluffy. Just use fluffy. Everyone else does. 🤪🤪

No no no ... the best password is PASSWORD

 

[jj63]

I did away with my landline phone in 2011. The only ones I worried about was my parents. I put my cell number on the wall, beside their wall phone/land line in the house. It worked fine as long as there were living. Lost my dad in 2012, & my mother in 2016.

 

[rmichael63]

I've only had a cell phone for near on 3 years, when I finally got one my only stipulation was my land line number had to be switched to the cell phone. Which they obliged.

 

[jj63]

You guys that were on a party line, I remember those days. I was a teenager then, & I'm sure the "old bittys" eased dropped on my conversations. And of course, if you talked to long, someone would ask for use of the phone. The "good old days", LOL.

 

[Higgy Baby]

Oh yeah- I remember our 1st phone- around 1957- FireSide 5-8869.

And yeah- my memory is a mess. I have CRS.......Can't Remember S.......!

 

[Clyde]

We also were on a party line. Grandparents lived 3 blocks away. It was sometimes faster to just walk to their house.

 

[Trizio e Caio]

No no no ... the best password is PASSWORD

Hei you!
How can you know my one?!

 

[Bob Lewis]

Sounds as though we're all of the same generation, my friend's number was 2367M ours was 534R at their ranch it was a wall-crank model while in San Francisco at the family shop it was a rotary type # MA14955 and I have to write down my passwords.