wow - funny that you mention the phone !!!
I am building a custom woodworking bench and just last week
I mounted my family's very first dial type phone to the side (just for prosperity).
yes, the number began with Olympic. To dial, you only used the first two letters
and a number =
OL6-XXXX. which was actually 656-XXXX. Outside of your city was "long distance".
we have kept this same number since 1960. it is the last relic of my family that I can hang on to.
Our very first phone was not a dial type. you jiggled the buttons for the operator (like on the Andy Griffith show).
our first number was
1244-Black. then the "Word" designator came in later down the road.
I wonder what it would be like trying to explain to our grandparents how to "text" on a phone !!! that would be a hoot.
and I remember standing in line "forever" with my mother to meet some old
bald guy to shake his hand . . . it was hot on the tarmac of the Orlando airport.
years down the road, I found out that old bald guy was our future president Ike Eisenhower.
My mother collected the I LIKE IKE buttons - which was passed to one of her cousins.
yeap - how time flys !!!!
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