Wireless Land Line Phone Sets

[alfsauve]

we obviously stole these, since back in those days all phone equipment belonged to the phone company.   What actually happened was my dad was looking for work and found something in FL.   I was told we were going on a long vacation to FL.  After we'd been down there about 6 weeks, dad had a job and we had a new house.  Dad called a moving company and they went to the old house in GA and literally packed everything in the house.  The ash trays arrived very carefully wrapped so as not to spill any of the ashes!  The movers just grabbed the phone.

I don't remember the operators name.   It was a small town in GA.  She had a window that from her switchboard could see the courthouse, the Post Office, the drug store and the barber shop.   I do remember picking up the phone and saying "72" which was my dad's work phone number.   The operator would sometimes tell me,  "Sorry, Master Alf, but your daddy is over at the post office.  Why don't you try back again in a half hour."