Old Rotary Phones

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Do you remember when we had rotary dial phones? I was a long-distance telephone operator back in the mid-'70s and early '80s. I made person-to-person phone calls and announced collect calls. We figured the time on long-distance calls for hotel stayers. We also figured long-distance coin calls from phone booths. Remember those? The operator would come in on the call every few minutes to tell you what you owed for the next few minutes. We had to count the coins as they went on the phone. Each coin made a different tone. Nickles, dimes, and quarters. Did you have a party line? We did have one on my grandmother's phone. I knew the family that was on it They lived about two blocks away from us. Those were the days. I first started working at Mountain Bell, which was partially computerized called Mecobs then, after the divestiture, it became AT&T and was completely computerized. We went through two weeks of training. No longer did we count coins out by hand and do it all manually.