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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?

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Phillip Dampier:

--- Quote from: julie01 on April 05, 2006, 06:55:23 pm ---Some dry facts aboiut Wyoming in '63:

1) The zip code had just been instiututed, but nobody was using it yet. The big cities already had "Postal zone" codes (2 numbers long), and were loathe to give them ujp.  The appearance of the zip code on a postcard from Jack to Ennis (the double "honey" scenes) was about right. "73? '69? (guess the date of that trip is a bit up in the air).

2)They really fu**cked up the licence plates. "No automobile of any kind had a licence plate of more than 4 numbers and letters in 1963" (licence plate collector). The tructk that brings Ennis has 5 (plus the bucking bronco--which had been around at least since the '30s), and Jack's truck has 6...only Aguirre's car has the correct 4 digits.

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If Jack and Ennis ever used THE PHONE (which is something interesting to me that they never seemed to actually call each other, even with the incessant "Reach Out & Touch Someone" Bell System/AT&T ads all during the period), we would have gotten to also watch the transition from exchange names (like RIver 2-1234 or HIghland 7-4321) to straight digit dialing.

strazeme:
Long-distance calls in 1963 were relatively expensive, and were considered very special ... everyone be quiet, it's a call from California ... almost as special; as a telegram ... but that's another subject.

texman:
 I was a early teen in 1963 and my memories of it are that the country was still reeling from the assasination of JFK, a lot of the optimism was gone that previously existed befre that event.
 Johnson was still in the White House and working on getting the equal rights ammendment passed. The idea of gay rights wasn't even on anyones radar screen at this time.
 I would not have been surprised if Ennis and Alma would not have had a phone in their first place. Lots of people didn't have phones still in the early to late 60's. I think that would have been a luxury that they couldn't afford. Not to speak about the possibility of  long distance.

Front-Ranger:
It's quite clear that Ennis doesn't have a phone. He had to call Lureen from a phone booth.

David In Indy:

--- Quote from: Phillip on April 06, 2006, 09:38:46 am ---If Jack and Ennis ever used THE PHONE (which is something interesting to me that they never seemed to actually call each other, even with the incessant "Reach Out & Touch Someone" Bell System/AT&T ads all during the period), we would have gotten to also watch the transition from exchange names (like RIver 2-1234 or HIghland 7-4321) to straight digit dialing.


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Oh Man, was that a blast from the past.

I remember our old phone number on Radnor Road when I  was a youngster. Lincoln 5-1126 :)

My grandmother had a party line (sometimes 2 or more families would share the same phone number). Her phone number was something like Terrace 3-1111 Ring 2.

Things sure have changed! :)

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