Telephones and the Wild West

[@hacksaw434]

Ponderosa 6-5000? Now I'm picturing Glen Miller in a cowboy hat!

[@jerseyred9554]

Not quite

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

HAHAHA!

[@charlesmiller6826]

That would have been a sight to see

[@RichWhiteUM]

Bell would throw a fit about what we've done with the telephone. We done turned it back into the telegraph! 🤠

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@BillSprague]

Dirt is slightly older than I but I remember party lines. My grandparents’ ring was two long rings and one short. The phone hung on the wall and had no dial. You picked it up and waited for the operator. Imagine the thrill when Mom got a radio linked call from my Dad who was in the Korean War. Thank you AT&T and some anonymous hero Ham operators who set up the link! Thanks!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You're welcome, Bill!

[@silverjohn6037]

316 ring 3 here;).

[@WhaleGold]

My Mom said their ring was "two shorts on line one." Thought that was funny, sounds more like doing the laundry.

[@bubbagump2341]

We still had party lines in small town and rural Idaho when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. People didn't have answering machines and so used to take phone messages for each other.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@bubbagump2341 Wow!

[@stephensmithsbarsmustangra4]

In 1986 I was working for “the phone company” and was sent to southwest Missouri below Springfield. I had heard all the stories about how farmers and ranchers ran their own wire and connected to the company facilities at a common spot. This area, while no longer used customer provided transmission wire had not increased much. I know there were a few cedar posts that were pushing seventy years and still had open wire. I enjoyed very much actually working on what I considered history. Few people in the company actually got to work on and experience an area that close to a hundred years of telephone technology in one location. I love history and I loved working in that area.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Very cool!!

[@mrs.g.9816]

My brother has worked as a lineman, then supervisor for Bell Telephone, then Verizon, for at least 50 years. He'd get a kick out of this episode! That telephone operator's attitude - 🤣!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@joemortimer1763]

Great episode yet again, Santee! That little detail about ranchers using their already existing barbed wire fences as phone lines was brilliant. Many old west towns may only have had one telephone at first so folks would stand in line for hours or wait days to make a call.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Good call! Uh....sorry.

[@Hades8103]

*Ghost poised to strike Santee a couple more times

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@Hades8103 LOL!

[@cleondubois1270]

We're not rapscallions ! We're the phone company...... Glad you got the slam in on texting there at the end. When I was a kid, our phone number on the rotary dial was "Diamond (DI) 30360.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!!

[@garrettfromsmokeinthewoods]

Lol we're the phone company!!! Lol somethings never change

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!!

[@PhantomObserver]

Y’know, that’s gotta be the meanest-looking impression of Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine I’ve ever seen. Apart from that, great video, Santee! And thanks very much for the mention!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ponyhorton4295]

Have I reached the party to whom I am threatening? 'Cause we're the PHONE COMPANY!!! BTW, that switchboard was the same make and model used by Lily Tomlin on LAUGH IN; a 1933 Western Electric 555 PBX board.

[@jjsadventures]

Loved seeing Rusty!!!

[@jerseyred9554]

You're too kind Jan

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

He was good, right?

[@jjsadventures]

@@ArizonaGhostriders absolutely!!

[@jjsadventures]

@@jerseyred9554 you were awesome Rusty

[@SmallCaliberArmsReview]

We've been trying to reach you about your wagons extended warranty!!! Cool video Santee! I like when I can associate a face with a name too. Fun stuff, ain't it Jersey Red!

[@jerseyred9554]

I learned a lot from my part in the episode Richard. After seeing it on KZbin I know what I need to change. Thanks FYI....that was bourbon in my glass.....and not the first or second

[@SmallCaliberArmsReview]

@@jerseyred9554 bourbon sure helps sometimes! I always see what I needed to do after I've filmed something, I just try to remember it the next time.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

I keep telling you all the secred to KZbin is...BOURBON!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You did great, pal.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@dixiegeorge9665]

I used to be a telephone operator 🤣 yes, I'm that old 🥰

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Awesome!

[@jerseyred9554]

Dixie, we're all that old 📞

[@dixiegeorge9665]

@@jerseyred9554 🤣🤣🤣

[@snicklefritz4209]

Love your channel santee!!! Much love from broken bow Oklahoma

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Much appreciated!

[@dd11111]

Well, how pleasantly unsurprising. Even still, there is Gold coming out of Arizona. Brilliant video gentlemen, entertaining and infomative. Good job!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@skydiverclassc2031]

Nice "callout" to the old movie The President's Analyst, in which the uber-spy agency, bigger than the CIA or the KGB, was TPC - The Phone Company!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@captainthorrek262]

Can't wait for this episode to start! One ringy-dingy... Two ringy-dingies...

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@ceeceeintexas3253]

What no "extended warrantee jokes..."??? :) another great video

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@Rags2Itches]

The Lyceum is still standing. It was a favorite watering hole for myself and friends. Lovely Pub and the restaurant served excellent food. The Lyceum is proud of it's telephone history.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Cool!

[@indigowolf556]

We're not cut purses where the phone company!!!😅😅😅😅 I love the humor that's put into these videos it's so great. Thanks again!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Yay! You're very welcome!

[@canadianryan2359]

0:14 Ohhhh, those puns. Lol🤦‍♂️ Great topic Santee!🍻👍

[@anthonystike6034]

I would have reacted the same way to that double pun.

[@canadianryan2359]

@@anthonystike6034 🤣

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Puns are terrific. Important. Poignant.

[@steveburton2410]

And the puns start rolling before we even get started! Correct usage of a 'candlestick' phone demands you pick up the phone with your right hand and simultaneously flip the 'earpiece' up into the air and catch it in your left hand. Probably not somethin' you want to try with a borrowed antique, though...

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Well, I own it now, but with my clumsiness...no.

[@nancybarnett2832]

Growing up in the 50's and 60's we had a party line, that was no fun. Our ring was 3 shorts. I worked at a small motel in the 60's it had a switch board, I had to connect all the in coming and out going calls from the rooms.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Wow!!!! That's amazing.

[@aaronburratwood.6957]

Three way calling! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

lol!

[@turboking9238]

My dad worked at Cincinnati Bell for almost 40 years before he retired.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Wow! Back when people worked the same job for their lives.

[@JEDiTV]

Another GREAT episode Santee. Thanks for all the work you put into this show. -Jed 🤠

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Glad you enjoy it! Next week....we got guns!

[@JasonL77]

I thought the first message that Alexander Graham Bell ever said over the phone was “Do you have Prince Albert in a can.”😁

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

HAHAHA! No, he called a bowling alley and asked if they have 10 pound balls.

[@dennishein2812]

And the first telephone led to the infamous party line. That about using existing fence wire was definitely a new one on me. Thanks for the interesting show.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bheckner]

Wow,1885 At&T. Impressive indeed.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Too bad you couldn't pay yesterday's prices for today's phone bill.

[@bheckner]

@@ArizonaGhostriders right. My car insurance is cheaper for 2 cars. Smh.

[@Remoniq]

Some people might want to to dial down with the puns, but I say you made the right call every time. Edit; My granmother used work like that guy in 3:07. IF I remember it right she once said: "The things you could hear people tell eachothers."

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

I bet!!

[@IKenichiSmithI]

My grand uncle was a lineman home here I remember him telling me stories of changing the clay pots on the poles

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Wow!

[@rhondaz356]

This channel does it all. It entertains, it informs, it includes an amazing variety of pictures, and video clips with sound. BRAVO I love the pace. 👏🤠👏🤠👏🤠👏

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Very much appreciated, Rhonda.

[@kmorris180]

And where else can you see a T Rex and the ghost of a famous outlaw?

[@rhondaz356]

@@kmorris180 TRUE🤠👏

[@oregonoutback7779]

My Aunt spent her entire career as a telephone operator for Ma Bell. They tried to promote her several times to management, but she refused. She absolutely loved being in the central distribution center of all the gossip in town !! That room full of women listened in on all the juicy calls and knew everything about everything going on :)

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Oh wow!!

[@AdaM48state]

That was a fantastic episode Santee. Great to see Rusty. That was a funny bit!!!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thanks, AdaM

[@jerseyred9554]

If ya think that was funny Adam..... I was several shots down the trail by then

[@AdaM48state]

@@jerseyred9554 No!!! Not you Rusty....🥃🥃🥃

[@classicgunstoday1972]

Hilarious video. I didn’t know about fence lines being phone lines. (At some point in here I expected to see a movie clip of James Coburn blasting apart a wall phone with a 45 automatic. (Last of the Hardmen)

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Hmmmm, I could have done that clip!

[@squint04]

Santee, great episode! Not only some interesting info, BUT you brought "Spanky" back to Saturday mornings!!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

He is a classic

[@colemcbride803]

Funny that you mention old firefighter masks. I was at an antique sale today and a guy there was selling one from 1878 for the low price of 5 grand. That was what my car cost lol. Pretty sure he didn't sell it, but still a beautiful piece of history.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Oh wow! Yeah, that's more than I would pay for one, but that is an amazing artifact.

[@colemcbride803]

@@ArizonaGhostriders yup, maybe one day if I win the lottery lol

[@hankfrankly7240]

I think this is one of the best videos you've ever done. No foolin intended.

[@jerseyred9554]

But.....I was in it 😉

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Much appreciated!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

That's why!

[@johnkriete2152]

The three fastest forms of communication in the ol west were telegraph, telephone and tella woman. lol

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

HAAHAH!

[@vikingshaman3079]

Another entertaining and informative episode, you certainly didn't "phone it in".

[@jerseyred9554]

No....I did

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@bubbagump2341]

Interesting factoid, the last plug style switchboard as depicted in this video did not go out of service in rural America till 1993!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Much appreciated!

[@ponyhorton4295]

That switchboard you see in the video was used in Downtown Los Angeles years ago, but recently enough that one of the lines is labeled for the Arco Towers downtown.

[@bubbagump2341]

@@ponyhorton4295 Very interesting!

[@danrichmond8979]

Great episode. Being a child (employee) of MA BELL, I took interest. I did work on those phones that you stuck your fingers in to spin the wheel. Before that, I worked on a cord board just like your operator.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Cool!

[@danrichmond8979]

@@ArizonaGhostriders after 34 years, retired now for 13.

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

Some hotels had house phones with no dial, so they could transfer calls to anyone in the lobby and not worry about them making expensive calls. What they didn't know was that you could bounce the hook (those two pegs the receiver "hung up" on) and make calls anyway. PO-65000 was 7 bounces, pause, 6 bounces, pause, 6 bounces, pause, 5 bounces, 10 bounces and a pause three times. It was fairly lax in the timing, so you could get good at with just a couple of calls.

[@bigblue6917]

Interesting that you showed the British red telephone box. Here ours in Kingston upon Hull were always cream coloured because we were not part of the same system.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

No kidding? Wow....thanks for the info.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

We still had a wall-mounted phone when I was a boy. Our phone number was 4 Green and our ring was four short rings. There were 16 parties on the Green line. And I can remember barbed wire phone lines in Osage County, KS in the 1950s.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

That is SO COOL!!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@slypperyfox]

My dad came across one of those old desktop models back in the ‘60s and turned it into a project. He turned the bell shaped mouthpiece straight up and put a light socket in it. Wired the rest of the body so that it plugged into the wall and you would take the ear piece off and set it on the table to turn the light on and hang it back up to turn the lamp off. He is an electrician and used to wire anything he could to pass the time. Yeah, he would wire the springs in old thinly upholstered chairs and you can imagine the outcome when people plopped down on them just dead ass tired from the day’s chores. We used to have a party line we shared with two other houses up the old dirt road you took to get to the highway. No special ring pattern - you just listened and asked if anyone else was there before dialing out.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

🤠

[@donmears4090]

I look forward to Saturday morning in order to enjoy history delivered with a chuckle or two. 👍

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@pamelabrida945]

Hi Santee ! My maternal grandparents' phone was a party line. As a kid visiting their home in a little country town I remember picking up the telephone receiver and hearing people casually chatting on the line. Although I did not know it at the time, the party line was probably the town gossips dream come true! Lol! Thanks for another great video!😃

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You're welcome. Much appreciated!

[@stevensheats7536]

Nice video of telephones in the old west Santee. And I remember the little rascals a long time

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

They are funny

[@terryschiller2625]

Wow how interesting that ranchers used the barbed wire fences as a telephone line. Got to love history.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Ingenuity prevails!

[@terryschiller2625]

@@ArizonaGhostriders that makes the saying" a country boy will survive" true! Thanks Santee

[@rickkinki4624]

Great video, Santee! And I loved the references to two of my all-time favorite TV shows, Bonanza and Deadwood! I recognized the one clip was from the Deadwood Movie. And in at least one of the Bonanza sequel films, they had a telephone at the Ponderosa! In Tombstone, starting in 1882, the only telephone lines ran between the mines and the mills. Service with the outside world came a little later.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@greghardy9476]

LOL, my maternal grandfather was related to Mr. Bell. It hasn’t helped one little bit on my phone bill…

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@greghardy9476 Dang

[@lawrencelewis2592]

My mother grew up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1930s. There was one phone in the neighbourhood at the corner candy store. The candy store guy would send a kid to your building and yell that you had a call. In southwestern Massachusetts in the early 1970s we had a party line that people could listen in or interrupt you if they wanted to use the phone.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

😎

[@joelhurley2678]

I think that operator still was working in the 1980s yeah, I ran into a few of those who had the attitude that they could do what they want. Thanks for a great episode Santee

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You're welcome.

[@ponyhorton4295]

I actually did try to get a job as an operator in the early 1980's, but apparently the interviewer thought my lack of work experience was a no-go.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@ponyhorton4295 Wassamata, you got too many...hangups?

[@ponyhorton4295]

@@ArizonaGhostriders I was wearing too many... ringy-dingies!

[@photomaker100]

Wow that was great was learning laughing from the start, spilling coffee at the "I don't care" part. Enjoyed every entertaining second of it Santee. Gonna watch it again thank you Guys!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

So glad!

[@jacktribble5253]

I'd call that a good one. Had a nice ring to it. Best of Days to the Ghostriders.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@victorwaddell6530]

Thanks again Santee & Co .

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You're welcome. Much appreciated, Victor!

[@jamieryall8341]

You guys are getting better & better all the time. Thank you.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you too!

[@mherod51]

I worked at Southwestern Bell SBC after the national deregulation of AT&T. They indeed are STILL quite a powerful company. They are STILL The Phone Company!

[@jerseyred9554]

Perhaps Jesse James should pay those rapscallions a visit

[@mherod51]

@@jerseyred9554 Jesse could never break AT&T....I know where the wire center is, but they don't have a local payment office for landline service. Hahahahaha. They're way too big.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!!!

[@PicoPistolero]

Whatever you're smokin' Santee....I WANT some!!! Great edition! Also, early on, mining companies would fun phone lines from their offices to the mines.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thanks. I think that AZ article I flashed up mentioned that.

[@joecuppko40uh29]

You've done it again Santee! I did not know that barbwire was used as phone line, but makes sense, that is amazing and shows just how things got done on the frontier. And since Bill beat you up I won't even make a bad joke this week, 'sides I think you beat me to all the best ones. Thanks again for making Saturday the best day of the week.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You're welcome!!

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Lol, awesome video guys, well done. It looks like the phone company hasn't changed their tactics too much since the 19th century.👍

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

It works!

[@raymondrussell500]

Once again thanks for all you do. You do make learning fun and that is the best way.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Our pleasure!

[@l_m_5000]

Great episode Santee!!! Could u do a dressing the part on the civil war soldier and or veteran??? Thanks!!!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you. I don't really do the Civil War, this being an Old West channel, but maybe the veteran....

[@l_m_5000]

@@ArizonaGhostriders ok thanks man!!!

[@HarborLockRoad]

Little house on the prairie was never the same after they brought in telephones.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Well, Mrs. Olsen hogged it!

[@davidmussack4529]

Really surprised there wasn’t an “extended warranty” joke in there somewhere.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Yeah...that's just what you all are expecting me to do!!

[@jasonattenborough4026]

Another excellent and funny video Santee!!! Back when I was doing my research, they used locomotive tracks to communicate through the distances, and the use technology for the telephone weren't mentioned. I can only assume the infrastructure took over a decade to install before it became useful outside government use only. Although, telephone use was very limited, it wasn't very practical until the switchboard operator was invented as well as "buying a telephone number" to be put through, therefore only the upper-class had access to it, until more practical solutions was found. Transmission of a telegraph signal didn't follow the curve of the planet, therefore it was necessary for relay stations to be set up, always it was interesting video.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you! It was definitely in its infancy, but Deadwood had the first telephone exchange in 1878 so it wasn't just government used. Miners were using it, businessmen as well. You could make a phone call there for fifty cents. Same with Arizona, and California (probably other states as well).

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You're welcome!

[@jeffryrichardson9105]

Awesome! Love the history!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thanks for watching

[@Conversationswiththecurious]

Another awesome video! Learn so much in your videos!!!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@murrayprice2551]

I wonder if they had telemarketers back then asking if their horse and wagon warranty Is about to running out 🤠🤠

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@markschultz2304]

Always look forward to the final few minutes of each video!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Much appreciated!

[@BubbaThaumaturge]

Amazing episode! Only one thing wrong. There's no Dirty Dan.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thanks. Yeah, he is not in all the episodes. Life is just too busy sometimes.

[@woodsmanforlife1677]

It was actually Antonio Meucci who invented the talking telegraph, as he called it and got a patent for it in 1849. FYI.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

He did not get a patent for it in 1849. He got a patent caveat, which is just an official notice of intention to file a patent application at a future date. That's why Bell was the victor.

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

I still use an old phone of the 70ies with a round dial. My new iphone has a ringtone that whinnies like a horse. Customers of my shop ask always where the horse is...

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

HAHA!

[@philfedor71]

Still waiting on an episode about land surveyors in the Old West. It's only the world's second oldest profession.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

I've got a long list.

[@trynsurviven2440]

10 minutes after the first line connection was made Alexander received a call about his cars extended warranty.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@danliberty734]

Seems a real busybody would be the worst operator, and forget keeping a secret on a party line. Great video, Santeria.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Many thanks, Daneria!

[@danliberty734]

@@ArizonaGhostriders Maybe Danerio? Funny how Spanish has gender in its words.

[@michaelashcraft8569]

I had one of the first "on-line" affairs with an Operator in Norfolk,VA 1972-73, I'd call home every Friday from the Ship, and, she and I would talk a date before connecting with Home, never saw each other, but, had a great verbal relationship, wonder what happened to her??

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You and her got disconnected.

[@bgbeck55]

Because Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell, a nickname for the phone in the the 1940's was "The Ameche".

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Hmmm....!

[@marcosaraiva9205]

Free tlf line too the west ! Yahoo! Another lesson 👍

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Much appreciated!

[@AdaM48state]

Hi Marco

[@marcosaraiva9205]

@@AdaM48state Hi amigo AdaM 👋

[@jerseyred9554]

Hey, it's......umm.....where is Drew ?

[@marcosaraiva9205]

@@jerseyred9554 Hi Red 👋

[@jjsadventures]

This is so cool! I had no idea that phones went back to the late 1800’s. Thanks Santee!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You bet!

[@jerseyred9554]

Not long after the shoot out in 1881

[@greylocke100]

Any chance you could do an episode about the battery technology back then? From the Crows Foot battery up to the telegraph iron batteries.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Yes

[@greylocke100]

@@ArizonaGhostriders Thank you.

[@roblowe9283]

Great Show !

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

🤠

[@ericruss4189]

Another great and informative video as always.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@BoyNamedSue4]

Scream in Old West “Howdy Sidney”

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

🤠

[@michaelpage4199]

That was great. You really rang a bell on that one.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL! Thank you kindly!

[@kevynhansyn2902]

The Phone Skit reminds me of a part in Chevy Chase's "Funny Farm" when they battle with the Phone in their house.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

LOL!

[@kevynhansyn2902]

@@ArizonaGhostriders I see you remember that movie. Hat's off to you good sir.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@kevynhansyn2902 I remember a lot of movies!

[@kevynhansyn2902]

@@ArizonaGhostriders At least someone does. People these days don't even remember how to wipe their own....arses anymore. And NO, I won't ask of a episode on Toilet paper in the wild West. Side note, your channel has helped me in our "Deadlands" game with me and my Navy buddies. Some good Wild West history goes along way thanks to you and your channel.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@kevynhansyn2902 I certainly appreciate it and your service!

[@maskedbandit5221]

Just was watching a video of yours and the telephone with the stand is my favourite because I have it my grandma used to own

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

That's pretty neat!

[@maskedbandit5221]

@@ArizonaGhostriders not just that but I and my grandma and mom still talk with people on that phone because we love speaking in it and also whenever it has a damage

[@dennishein2812]

Those party lines were a real pain. You could always hear another phone being picked up. If no one said anything you knew they were just listening in on you. A few snide remarks usually got them to hang up. Operators were handy if you didn’t have a phone book handy. Of course if they didn’t connect you and just gave you the number ,you had to remember it. If you forgot you called the operator back. Was a dime on a pay phone when I was a kid. Jumped up to 2bits by the time I was a teen.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Wow!

[@TimKoehn44]

Great episode Santee. You did deserve that drubbing from Bill! 😆😅🤣😂 Keep up the great videos! Thanks!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@charlesmiller6826]

Folks tend to thin of telephones as modern and ubiquitous but growing up in rural western NC in the 70's there were still some people that didn't have a phone or TV.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Or running water!

[@sitaspell4384]

Thanks for another great informative video!! Cut purses? Another interesting word to add to my vocabulary!!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You are so welcome!

[@ponyhorton4295]

I knew we'd educate someone with our antique words!!!

[@thejaggededge1624]

Another well made video Santee. Entertaining and educational. How you come up with this stuff is amazing.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Bourbon.

[@thejaggededge1624]

@@ArizonaGhostriders LOL yes, it does help the creative juices.

[@justinsane7128]

My mom was a telephone switchboard operator when I was a baby in the late '50s. Oh and if the phone doesn't ring , it's me.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

HAHA. Cool

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

Lol thats great. I woul love to get a antique phone

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

You know, they aren't hard to find. This one was inexpensive and kind of beat up. I had to replace the cloth wires and remove 115 years of "gunk" off of the face. Well worth having just as a conversation piece.

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks i never really looked at prices before. How do they sound. If there in good shape of course. Do you need to replace the mic and speaker. Or do anything crazy to make them work

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@snappers_antique_firearms This one was about $50, but ones in really good shape go for around $200. I don't know how to make them work, but there are videos on YT about what is needed.

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

@@ArizonaGhostriders ok even if i cant still a beautiful conversational piece. Thanks santee

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

@@snappers_antique_firearms I agree. I almost want to get a wall mounted one, now!!

[@HootOwl513]

Hey Santee, I keep listening for my Telegraph to start clacking again, but I think Apaches cut the wires...

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

They keep doing that!

[@BradSprinkle]

This one was a good call 🤠 Keep them coming.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@Dsdcain]

Great history lesson. Thanks for the Saturday video. Stay safe out there, and take it easy man.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Will do. Thank you!

[@chelseadanico877]

Very cool in interesting and informative video, I really loved and enjoyed it. Great job. I learned a lot about telephones in the old west. I’m definitely going to be adding the first telephones in my old West inspired novella series I’m writing

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

So nice of you

[@chelseadanico877]

@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks👍🏼😎🌟 I’ll be adding those to my story today. Also in my story they’ll be other devices such as HoloWatches and AR HoloTabs. Which are augmented reality and holographic devices . The goal for my story is to bring the old west and the retro 60s,70s and 80s to the vision of the far distant future.

[@Big-Red-Rider]

Hey Santee another great video! Still waiting on the video about tools in the old west

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Will do

[@robertbuckey6517]

Another awesome episode!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you!

[@BJBlaskovichGaming]

AT&T. The Evil Empire. You really gotta do something about that operator, Santee. Great video, thank you for the hard work!!!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Much appreciated!

[@BJBlaskovichGaming]

@@ArizonaGhostriders No problem! I hope you have a great day!

[@ponyhorton4295]

He wouldn't DARE do anything about me.... I've got his NUMBER!!!!