Lewdog
Gold Member
AT&T in the north.1982.Oh...so because YOU didn't have one.....no one had one. This is so enlightening watching the trumpanzees jump back and forth between denial and approval.We never had any 30 foot cord on our phone. In those days, most parents wouldn't allow their kids to yak on the phone in their bedrooms where they couldn't hear what was being said. Why would her mother point out that she didn't have a phone if it was still possible that she could use the family phone in her bedroom?
Furthermore:
"She says she talked to Moore on her phone in her bedroom, and they made plans for him to pick her up at Alcott Road and Riley Street, around the corner from her house."
At that time I don't think the phone company even allowed you to have a longer phone line. The phone company used to control what you could do with your phone very tightly. It wasn't even your phone, actually. You rented it from the phone company. It wasn't until the later half of the 70s that the phone company started giving you more choices. That's when those push button trimeline phones appeared. I recall very distinctly that previously only the rotary dial kind were available. If you wanted a phone in another room you had to pay the phone company for another line. That's why AT&T was such an oppressive monopoly.
Deregulated breakup of AT&T.
At that time, wouldn't it have been Southern Bell? Not AT&T?
Bell in the south.
I'm in C&P territory.
I lived in Ohio, and it was Ohio Bell.
This took place in Alabama...so Bripat is wrong, it would have been Southern Bell, so his rules about the phone wouldn't be the same.