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This is Noble Sissle, with the Female cast of "Shuffle Along", written with Eubie Blake. Probably the 1930s revival, it was the first Broadway Hit to feature African-American Dance. I remember Eubie Blake as a guest of Johnny Carson many times. He was a fascinating man to hear talk Noble Sissle and Shuffle Along [1933] chorus girls.jpg
 
Jeni Legon, Dancer, Actress, self-taught Queen of Tap....She founded a school of Dance, and showed her male contemporaries that anything they could do, she could do, too. Picture is probably about 1935Jeni LeGon (1916-2012) - Find a Grave Memorial.jpg
 
This is a Lockheed Constellation, last propeller-driven Airplane in regular Big Airline Service. These guys were Sooooo cool. In Pennsylvania, Bucks, I think, there was a restaurant made from one of these when it went out of service. There was a Bar up a spiral stair, with a piano on weekends, and the dining room was stretched along both sides of the aisle. Except for the piano, it wasnt much different from its days on the Flight line.FB_IMG_1694478971832.jpg
 
W: Orville?
O: Yeah Wilbur....
W: You know she'll never get that off the ground, right?
O: Yeah, Wilbur...but the little skirt will act like a parachute if she even gets a foot into the air....


Berlin, 1928 Carnival of Flight.
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K9Evangelist said:
The alternative was a party line. Each phone had a crank which you would use to signal the operator. Everyone else on the line could listen in on your conversation.
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We still have one. It is disconnected, but apparently, it could still work as the internal workings are still there. No dial though.
 
K9Evangelist said:
The alternative was a party line. Each phone had a crank which you would use to signal the operator. Everyone else on the line could listen in on your conversation.
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Party lines were never a hardware-driven thing, nor were operators dedicated specifically to service them. My parents had a party line as late as 1971. The phone was a regular Bell System wall unit. Any operator working any switchboard til around that time could listen to ANY call running thru her switch. Or his. I ran one in my first job that handled 300 lines.


Party lines had dedicated long-short rings to alert parties to the client desired. Yours might be two longs and a short, while mine might be two shorts, and such. Any client in the group could listen, though it was considered rude.

All Handcranks did was connect to the central switch. That crank generated power to ring the Central's bell. Thats why the originals did not have a dial.

Once connected, the system didnt need a lot of voltage to carry a voice signal. The operator then made further trunkline connections, if required, til another operator further out picked up the call and made more connections.
 
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Kristy said:
Would you believe I actually know what "Beat me, Daddy, eight to the Bar" means? (if there's a song, I don't know it)
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There were a few....best known is The Andrews Sisters ( or Bette Midler's) " Boogie Woogie Bugleboy".....'Ya know, he makes the Comp'ny jump eight to the bar!'...
 
saddlebum66 said:
There were a few....best known is The Andrews Sisters ( or Bette Midler's) " Boogie Woogie Bugleboy".....'Ya know, he makes the Comp'ny jump eight to the bar!'...
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Dear old Dad had some Andrews Sisters, and I MAY have heard the song! I don't like Midler. It's just a personal thing.
 
Im not crazy about Midler, but she can sing....The Andrews girls were better, but that style has mostly gone away. Sister acts back then were big....The King Sisters were another well known group....they had a TV show around 62 -63 My parents used to watch.
 
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