I never called them any of that nor did any one else because in those days it was PMG only and nothing more . However my four pennies got me in touch with my Nana once a week and it was great !!
-- Edited by moamajohn on Sunday 4th of October 2015 09:17:02 PM
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Westy. Some people I know are like slinkies. They look really funny when you push them downstairs !
Growing up in Sydney I vaguely remember walking to the nearest public phone one evening with Mum to make a "trunk" call to my grandmother in Brisbane, must have been the late 1950s before we went upmarket and got our own telephone - standard PMG issue black bakelite with rotary dial. Fast forward 10 years and I was working for the PMG in a city post office, and we'd often receive calls from telephone exchanges located all over Australia testing the new-fangled Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) system - crystal clear reception compared to the scratchy, distant voice I heard a decade earlier. One of the reasons I'm glad to be of the baby boomer generation ... so much change in technology in one lifetime.
Joe
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Hino Rainbow motorhome conversion towing a Daihatsu Terios
I used to make International calls home. Firstly you had to book the call and the length of the call - sometimes days ahead. Then you had to deal with long delays waiting for your voice to be heard and the answer to come back and.....it cost a fortune!
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If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got
It was about 1966 or there abouts my roller skating girl friend at the time was a telephonist at a very small exchange, I left and went out bush to work from the coastal area where we both grew up, her parting words were "keep in touch", I said I am not much of a writer, her reply was pick up the phone and say to the operator that you would like to speak with such and such at. Well after a while of doing this I got to know a lot of telephonist and many a Saturday night bush dance I met these wonderful young ladies and had partners for dances and places to have dinners around Central NSW.
What a great time it was and even into the seventies and eighties making reverse charge calls to home from where ever I was driving trucks delivering goods though the eastern seaboard of Australia leave me with great memories.
I am really glad to of hard those experiences although my darling wife would rather I lived a normal life at home. Ralph
We grew up having a party line out in NZ country .. Our phone ring long short short .. It would ring the 6 other houses but you only answered your call.. We had to ring exchange to ring other phones.. To ring neighbours ? We could ring them using our own phone .. 3 long or 3 shorts etc keep in mind all 6 can hear the rings.. Not too good at night ..
