Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a relay team of Swiss yodellers to yodel a message from one side o’ t’valley to t’other. ‘Appen she wuz wuckin’ dahn t’pit that day, it bein’ in Lancashire like, we ‘ad t’ire a team of Ethiopian runners too, and a scribe, cuz t’yodellers wouldn’t yodel into Lancashire on a Sunday. An’ we had to cleave uz sticks uz sells for t’message, we couldn’t ‘ave ‘em cloven for us.
But we were ‘appy. aye. > On 10 Nov 2020, at 19:21, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 10.11.20 um 16:52 schrieb Paul Sorenson: > >> On November 10, 1951 the first customer-dialed long distance phone call >> was made. Prior to that, you had to contact a long distance operator to >> place those calls. > > Around 1968, we were on holiday in Yugoslavia and my uncle sent a > telegram that he had found a better flat for us (something you had to > wait years for). My father spent 3 whole days at the post office before > the call to my uncle in Cologne was put through. > > By 1970 you still had to go through the German "Fernamt" for a call to > the South of France. Not to mention that it cost the skin off your > buttocks, as the French say. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
