Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines

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Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

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Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

3 minutes 19 seconds

3 weeks ago

Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines

This week we're replaying episodes that are anything but phoned in. For this episode from April 2022, the story of several communities in Indiana that started their own wired telephone service, and the wire they used was plain old fence wire. Plus: Kansas City celebrates Fountain Day.

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