| Display title | Party Line Telephone |
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| Page creator | Carlb (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 18:08, 2 September 2019 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The bane of rural telephony for about a century from the late 1800's onward, the party line telephone is a low-cost but inferior grade of landline service on which a telephone company has connected multiple subscribers to the same physical line. More Tin Can Telephone than Shoe Phone, these "shared service lines" were a common (but annoying) fixture on every rural road, in every college dormitory and maybe in more than a few rapidly-growing 1940s or 1950s outer suburbs in the early years in which many of them still had well water, septic tanks and rural-style infrastructure. |
