gsp7 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 What does "Wire" stand for? or mean? Havent seen ant threads on bailing wire or fence wire...?... or telegraph wire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Wire=Line of communication. Like what the telegraph was. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 9 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Wire=Line of communication. Like what the telegraph was. OLG Have you talked to somebody on the "Ameche" lately? (Actor Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in the movie. Some folks started calling the telephone, "The Ameche" after the movie came out.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said: Have you talked to somebody on the "Ameche" lately? (Actor Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in the movie. Some folks started calling the telephone, "The Ameche" after the movie came out.) What people??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-Eye Ned Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 13 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said: Have you talked to somebody on the "Ameche" lately? (Actor Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in the movie. Some folks started calling the telephone, "The Ameche" after the movie came out.) When I was starting out in the work force in the late 70s, I worked for a fellow who looked like J. Edgar Hoover and drove a ‘69 Pontiac (and kept driving it until he died in the 1980s). Anyway, he always called the phone “the Ameche.” He thought he had one on me, but my dad had already told me about Don Ameche and the nickname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 What my late uncle always called it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 13 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said: Have you talked to somebody on the "Ameche" lately? (Actor Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in the movie. Some folks started calling the telephone, "The Ameche" after the movie came out.) My HAM lic included code when it was still required OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 5 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said: What my late uncle always called it. Never heard that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 AND WE USED IT HERE BEFORE THE TV SHOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 15 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Never heard that. Forty seconds in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 37 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said: Have you talked to somebody on the "Ameche" lately? (Actor Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in the movie. Some folks started calling the telephone, "The Ameche" after the movie came out.) I had forgotten about that. At the time, I thought it a pretty corny joke that only adults thought funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Newt # 7365 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 If it was OK with Barbara Stanwyck, it's OK with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 You talking about bob war? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Have you ever told somebody talking at length long distance on the Ameche, "Keep talkin'...it's your nickel!"? And I'm old enough to remember (barely) when you could actually put a nickel in a pay phone. (Poor Superman...where would he change clothes today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 One of my father's Lodge Brothers - Papa Joe. That's how he answered the phone. Not HELLO. YOUR NICKEL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Appropriate for the SALOON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Does anyone have a clue what that song is about? When I first heard it I thought he was a cowboy riding fence. Several years later I'm listening to it again, and that line about "if it snows that line down south won't ever take the strain" made it sound like either electric or telephone line. But he's "searching in the sun for another overload"? Anybody know what the song is talking about? Aside from he misses his girlfriend. That part I get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 11 minutes ago, Alpo said: Does anyone have a clue what that song is about? When I first heard it I thought he was a cowboy riding fence. Several years later I'm listening to it again, and that line about "if it snows that line down south won't ever take the strain" made it sound like either electric or telephone line. But he's "searching in the sun for another overload"? Anybody know what the song is talking about? Aside from he misses his girlfriend. That part I get. Explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman#Background_and_content LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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