Party Line
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Party Line
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture
Description
RING, RING, ring - two longs and a short. The old wooden encased wall telephone on the wall would sound off. The crank on the side used to call someone else was being used by someone else on their phone causing ours to ring. Wonder who that could be? Picking up the metal receiver from the opposite side, listening patiently for others to also pick up and counting the clicks on the line when they did. OK, now we're all here, go ahead and speak, we're all ready now. That was the party line sequence in the small Kansas town where I was. Once in a while, I even got to go down to the small home that housed the telephone switchboard, now in a museum near Abilene, to see the wires, connectors,switches and of course, Elfie the girl who ran it all.
Wasn't the NSA, but the conversations weren't private then either...
The image of the birds was made in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Copyright 2014 Jon Burch Photography.
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February 10th, 2014
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Steven Bateson
The New Mexico Land of Enchantment Group is honored that you chose to submit your work to the group and we are proud to feature your magnificent image on the Homepage in the Featured Images.
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
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