Comments on: Let’s talk about talking…

By: lilpunk

lilpunk — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:44:00 +0000

there’s a movie based on this. “Pillow Talk”. It starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day. It took me forever to figure out why there were sharing a line!

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:13:35 +0000

I remember when we had party lines when I was very young. I used to think that cake and ice cream should somehow be involved. I have to say, though, that email is the way to go.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:33:32 +0000

And then there were the other ways of communicating. Writing letters, of course, and the bang on the pipes way.

If you had something you wanted to communicate with someone else in your line of apartments in the building (there were eleven floors) you banged on the pipes. There were different bangs for different ideas. There was the “Come, look out the window, I want to talk to you, neighbor” sequence and the “come home, it is time for supper.”

Then there was letter writing and the fact that the mail was delivered twice a day! You could actually talk to someone, in an up to date way, through the mail! Now that most of the mail is commercial mail, bills and ads, the US Postal Service wants to cut the 6 day a week delivery system to 5 days, once a day!

By: Mom

Mom — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:49:39 +0000

Not being a fan of being on call and capable of being reached instantly, I might have liked the time lapse of old time phone communication. Except when I went into labor!

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:45:30 +0000

I remember how important the family felt to get a call and how fantastic it was to hear your “special” ring on the party line. The event of being able to make a call from the house was so important, that now, even after many decades, I still remember the phone number, MAIN (MA) 5 5078.