Good old days

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Who remembers these?

Remember when you were able to call a person

60 times, hang up, and they never knew it was you. Lol 😂

Also, you took the phone off the hook so, you wouldn’t receive any calls. 🤣🤣

Yep, we had one growing up, the great thing was when the power went out, it still worked outgoing & incoming calls.

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  8. When leaving school in the early 1970s, I worked in a Travel Agency for a couple of years. When the new holiday brochures came out there would be a rush to book holidays in the Coventry Holiday Fortnight in England. That fortnight was an agreed date for all the city factories to close and families all over the city went away at the same time. For two summer weeks Coventry became a Ghost Town for a fortnight.

    The brochures would arrive in dozens of boxes. We would have hundreds of people rushing in to get their copies and what quickly followed over the next hours was that the Travel Agency had queues on queues of people trying to book their holidays to their favourite hotels and destinations. These phones were the only way we could contact the Travel Companies back then. I remember sitting for hours and hours dialling over and over because the ‘engaged’ tone would constantly be ongoing due to the busy company lines.

    We would sit and dial the same company numbers repeatedly. A dozen plus times a minute. It could go on for an hour or more. When you eventually did get through you had a pile of paper written ‘bookings’ with options on options for hotel or destination choices in British holiday resorts and various European countries in front of you. Ringing to another town/city district meant the unique 4/5 digit code was on the front of the 6/8 digit telephone number too. London, Birmingham, etc. So a long number of digits had to be dialled consistently. Needless to say, companies with high 8 to 0 numbers weren’t popular. Took an age for the dial to get back to starting point! Ah…..the memories. Simple technological times indeed. Cheers. Great blog.

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