How about the following?
There was no dial tone. You picked up the phone and waited for the operator to ask what number you wanted HER to connect you to.
Mary Holton's mother, visiting from Chicago, called a friend, and was astonished to hear the operator say that she was not home. Friend had just walked by the telephone office.
The phone number for the State Theater in London was 7.
It cost me 10 cents to go to the Saturday Matinee.
I was allowed to go by myself.
My haircuts cost 75 cents.
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When I grew up (Mary Holton is my Mother!) our phone number was 434. this was before we had the telephone exchange with the "big" phone company and the prefix was "Ulrich" the first two characters of which are the 85 of the early London phone numbers (852-XXXX).
Boy...hair cut prices sure haven't risen as fast as movie tickets. :-)
Thanks for that bit of trivia, Tom! That's really interesting!
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