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Old 07-08-2015, 03:41 PM   #104
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Default Re: Got an old brain? I need to pick it!!!!

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Originally Posted by Charles Coe View Post
In the 1950s in rural Alabama, the small store near my grandmother's house still had a wooden wall phone with a crank on the side. Almost no one had a phone in their house.
Sorta the same with the old see-thru gravity pumps, many rural areas didn't have electricity to run the pumps that replaced them so they were used way into the late 40s.
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