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I loved that the operator was my aunt and thought she had a very important job. She was the person to call for all kinds of information. Whenever I came home from school and my mom wasn't there I'd just call the operator and she'd tell me that Mom was over at Mrs. X's house having coffee.
DH tells me that once they were singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and couldn't remember one line to the song so they called the operator and she told them what it was.
My "duck and cover" days were in the 50s. Didn't know they were still doing it in the 60s. I guess it's a good thing kids are so innocent because had we known the 'truth' about nuclear war/bombs we'd have probably been traumatized for life!
Wasn't the Cuban Missile Crisis in '62? I was a science nerd from an early age, and it was pretty traumatic. I went to bed every night not knowing if I would wake up the next morning or if there would be a world to wake up to.
But not so fun to see the salaries that went along with those "easy" prices. I remember being paid $1.25/hour.
You can tell money was worth more back then, dimes and quarters were made of silver, pennies were solid copper (not copper-coated zinc).
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