bripat9643
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- Apr 1, 2011
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1979 is when this incident is supposed to have occured, isn't it?This DID happen in the later half of the 70's--'79 to be exact. And you could buy your 30 foot handset cord from the Phone Store. That's where I got mine.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.She did not say the phone was on her bedroom, she said she talked to him on the phone in her bedroom. If you recall those days we all had like 30 foot long handset cords so you could walk away from where the phone was jacked to the wall. I didn't have a phone in my bedroom but I talked on the phone a lot while sitting in my bedroom. And I am the same age as this woman.
Not even a good try.
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.