On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:37:09 -0400, Terry
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:07:58 -0500, dpb wrote:

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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:45:04 -0400, Terry
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springs so sprung had to manually turn them back. All that rent paid
over the years and didn't even ask for new ones when those wore out--I
suppose because the old square black units probably weren't available

And........they weighed a ton.

I lived in Watts Bar TN in 1980. You could still get your party by
dialing a 4 digit number. It might still be that way.


It was 5 digits here (east Texas, in a small town where all numbers
used the same "first 3 digits"). That changed to 7 digits around 1990
when they switched to ESS and 10 digits around 2004 with the new
"overlay" area code.

BTW, I still haven't heard of anyone using that new area code, but we
still have to dial 10 digits.

BTW2, I bought a washer and dryer last year in an old store. The
salesman asked my phone number and wrote down 5 digits.

Actually the town is called Ten Mile.

http://maps.google.com/maps?num=100&...-8&sa=N&tab=wl

I just looked at the overhead using Google and not much looks changed.

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