Era: The early 90s -telephone on the kitchen wall. you were up with the times if you had a portable phone. the phone would ring with the ringer it came with, and you had no idea who could call you. i remember also dialing seven digits when i called locally. i remember when we weren't 978, we were 508 -phone calls on payphones were the way to contact others when not at home, calls only cost on average 25 cents. if you had no change, you called Collect. Verizon was non-existant, and Bell Atlantic... read more