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Location: SoCal | This marketing push is just getting started. Let's wait and see what happens down the road..... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Remember when Al and Miles started the ning site? All of us old farts HATED it! I guess when you're over 50 you have to be dragged kicking and screaming into anything new and unfamiliar... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Some of us are 'late adopters'....y'know...the only reason they have pushbutton phones is 'cos you can no longer buy a rotary phone!
(I myself have one in the garage, plugged in. When the power goes out I will still be able to phone.....um, who exactly?) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I miss when you could call the Operator and she knew you by name!
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | OMA, nobody here is that old! |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | doesn't support my elderly IE 6 browser |
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Location: closely held secret | Install FireFox. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by stephent28:
OMA, nobody here is that old! Ummmm errr.. When I was a kid, if I needed to call my parents, or a friend, I would just pick up the phone, wait for the operator to pick up, and say "this is Miles, I want to talk to my mom, she's at so'n so's house"... Or I need to talk to my friend Russell, and the call would go through.
I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad about this :( |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Don't recall any operators, but the best I could do was a 4-party line when I moved to the mountains west of Denver in early 1979. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yep, we had 4-party lines in Houston when I was growing up.....then we went to 2-party lines (which was crazy cause the people who lived across the street from us were the other party)!
It was a glorious day when we got our own private line!
Miles, were you in a small town? That might explain it. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | The dealer locator on the new site doesn't seem to work. All I get is a 404 Page not found. Sigh. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Yes.. I grew up in a small town. Technically a Village in a Township. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by fillhixx:
....y'know...the only reason they have pushbutton phones is 'cos you can no longer buy a rotary phone! Here ya go...
Senior citizen cell phone...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I grew up in a suburb, but the address was Milwaukee 23, Wisconsin. No zips then and our first number was Flagstone4-6775. Does that mean I'm old? |
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Location: closely held secret | Yeah, pre-dating zip codes sucks.
I was watching Hell's Kitchen the other night and a couple was celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. 50th!! Wow!!
Then I realized they were married 6 years after I was born... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I grew up in a suburb, but the address was Milwaukee 23, Wisconsin. No zips then and our first number was Flagstone4-6775. Does that mean I'm old? My dad grew up in a small town. When he was a kid his phone number was 4 |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | O.k., I think I can win the smallest town award. We lived in Zoar, MA in the early 50's. When my parents moved out to Southern California, the population went from 7 to 2. Only the postmaster/mayor and her daughter remained. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Iffy, you crack me up! :D |
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| I suppose we'd all find some comfort in living in Andy Hardy's town and time. I must admit, however, that I really like the internet, cell phones, GPS, cable TV and microwave ovens. If that means I'll have to acclimate myself to a new Ovation website, that's a small price to pay. |
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Location: Right now? | What I think I miss the most are the archives. I hope they get their sh*t together and get it all goin' on ... :(
BTW, Professor:
O.k., I think I can win the smallest town award. We lived in Zoar, MA in the early 50's. When my parents moved out to Southern California, the population went from 7 to 2. Only the postmaster/mayor and her daughter remained.
Yep, You win, ha!
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Remember when Al and Miles started the ning site? All of us old farts HATED it! I guess when you're over 50 you have to be dragged kicking and screaming into anything new and unfamiliar... It could also be that the pace of change is so rapid that I (at least) can't help thinking that YESTERDAY's new and unfamiliar hasn't had sufficient opportunity to become familiar. It's all a bit unsettling when one is constantly trying to acclimate oneself to the newly no longer new, as well as to the new. |
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