I lived at my dad’s farm in N.H. through the last three years of high school, and he also had a party line. One long ring was for our place… also, the town we lived in was on a mechanical lata code switcher, so if we wanted to call our friends, as long as they were in the same 942- range, we only needed the last 4 digits. IIRC, talking to my step-mom about it, she told me the phone company actualy didn’t change out that mechanical switch until 1988… and by then I was long gone.
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I lived at my dad’s farm in N.H. through the last three years of high school, and he also had a party line. One long ring was for our place… also, the town we lived in was on a mechanical lata code switcher, so if we wanted to call our friends, as long as they were in the same 942- range, we only needed the last 4 digits. IIRC, talking to my step-mom about it, she told me the phone company actualy didn’t change out that mechanical switch until 1988… and by then I was long gone.