My Grandparents' House

[gwendovere21]

After an exhausting week in New York City (in which I lost my wallet and got the flu) I took the Amtrack train to Cumberland, MD, where my grandparents have lived for 55 years. This is as close as the train could get me to my ultimate destination (Morgantown, WV). Cumberland is the town where I lived until I was eight, and almost nothing has

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[anathelen]

Rotary phones can no longer dial long distance, I believe. My parents' house in Berkeley County still has a rotary phone that will dial the local 7-digit numbers (no area code, lol), but there's something about the way non-7 digit calls are routed these days that doesn't allow them to be carried through the trunk system.

Or you might have just dialed the thing wrong. Those phones are tricky.

Amazing post.

[anonymous]

omg.. good work, dude

Re: Amazing post.

[gwendovere21]

Thank you. Tell your friends.