1962 Jefferson nickel liquid letters

As a kid I would go through all the pay phones and hit the return button. You'd be surprised how much a kid can make doing that but then, that was in the early sixties.

 

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Don't forget to tell them about the rotary dial and on non-pay phones, the party line.

 

HERE Ya Go .

 

Ohhhh, the joys of a party line!!

~Rob

 

Oh...I got another funny story about a Party Line. Well...it wasn't really a party line. This was in the mid-90s and I was renting a townhouse in Crofton, MD. This was pre-Cell Phone days.

I had a Sony cordless touchtone phone with ten (10) channels. The instructions said if you don't have a good connection, simply switch channels until you find a good one. Anyway, I don't know about all that. Channel #1 was fine for me.

Anyway, I'm relaxing one evening, pick up the phone to make a call and hear one side of someone else's conversation. I tried to tell them to get off the line, but they couldn't hear me. I changed channels right away, but now the channel button got me curious.

I noticed that this happened across all ten (10) channels. If there was no activity on a given channel, I would just hear white noise. However, once a call began on that channel, it was clear as a bell.

So, one evening, I pick up the phone and I hear a girl/woman who lives a few townhomes away. She's talking to her boyfriend all lovey-dovey. She's asking how his dog is doing..."Taco". I assumed it was a Chihuahua. Anyway, she couldn't say enough great things about this guy's dog. Yeah, I shouldn't have listened, but I did.

Well, she hangs up and I just hear white noise again. I'm about the hang up, when the white noise clears and she's making another call. This time, she calls a friend and just starts running down her boy friend "and his stupid dog, Taco". OMG!

A few days later I met her in the parking lot...and I soooo wanted to ask her, "How's Taco?"

 

You know, it dawned on me that this thread is like a party line . . . .

Z

 

the pictures are really good. great retail. how do you get pictures like that? im one of "new guys" here at CT and ive learned quite a bit from some of the senior members here, SensibleSal66,alurid,Collecting Nut, Mr.Q, I know ive left out several other members, I just couldn't remember their usernames. the advice that comes from these guys and others are pretty solid. the pictures of the Jefferson nickel looks like worn dies were the results of the scratches or spikes around the letters