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"Rubber-Necking" -- Detail from The Connection

by Windi Scott, Stony Plain

Stony Plain got its telephone office shortly after Alberta Government Telephones was established in 1906. Many phone customers were on a single party line, allowing nosey neighbours to eavesdrop for entertainment, and no doubt to generate much gossip. (Click here to see other parts of this mural).

 

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