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applegrove

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4. I lived in a tea house on a mountain cliff in Lake Louise.

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 08:09 AM

Dec 18

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No electricity. No phone. Right on Lake Agnes in a hanging valley. The trail was a 2.5 mile big zag to get up the 2000 feet up heigher from the hotel. Before my time, there was an emergency. A worker broke her ankle badly. To get help one of the mountain men ran straight down the mountain along a water pipe (the lake was the water source to the Chateau Lake Louise) and got to a phone in 15 minutes and called the helicopter which likely came from Banff, 20 minutes away as a bird flies. You make do. Glad she was okay.

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when telephone long distance was shortwave radio. ( have a old radio with these frequencies on the dial) [View all] AllaN01Bear Dec 18 OP

Our reality than 100 years ago. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 18 #1

When we lived off-base in Japan, we had no phone service...period...none! LeftInTX Dec 18 #2

I lived in a tea house on a mountain cliff in Lake Louise. applegrove Dec 18 #4

Yeah. It was so weird. We lived in a village with lots of close neighbor's but no phones. LeftInTX Dec 18 #6

We are helpless creatures. My grandmother was born in 1898 applegrove Dec 18 #7

Fascinating. I always thought they used cables! LeftInTX Dec 18 #3

Near Cleveland in the 1950s Marthe48 Dec 18 #5

My cousin in NJ had a party line when we were quite young visiting them... electric_blue68 Dec 19 #8

My husband's family had a party line Marthe48 Dec 19 #9

Wow. Some people -really- go through some things!... electric_blue68 Dec 19 #10

Yes, they do Marthe48 Dec 19 #11

Omg, how terrifying! And now the third time! electric_blue68 Dec 19 #12

So I read a description of party lines saying mostly in "rural" areas... electric_blue68 Dec 19 #13

when my dad and mum were younger , they had a party line . mrs . jones , get off the line , we can hear u breathinh! AllaN01Bear Dec 19 #14

Hahaha electric_blue68 Dec 19 #15