I don't think anything changed for Horse. I think the technology had changed for whomever was calling Horse. Their provider now requires 10-digit dialing.
i remember only having to dial 4 digits on a rotary phone. My Great Grandparents still had a Party Line in the mid-80's. Now look how far we've fallen.
When my parents first got a telephone, I called my grandparents by picking up the receiver and when the nice lady said "Number please", I told her 42.
Wow....you've beaten me. Remember how tough those phones were? I once knocked out my brother with the handset. The only thing to survive nuclear war would be cockroaches, Twinkies and rotary phones.
Rotary phone? That must be something those uppity city folk had. My parents first phone didn't have anything. You had to wait for the operator. And, initially we were on an 8-party line. I think calls to us were 4 rings. A short while later, we were upgraded to a 4-pary line. Big time! To call someone on your own party line, you had to tell the operator 8108 + 2 more numbers that I think were your 1 digit sequence number and the person you were callings' 1 digit seqence number. Then you would hang up and your phone would ring for however many rings their number was. When the phone quit ringing, it means they had answered. You then picked up the receiver and had your conversation. Whew! I don't know how I remember all that. It's been a while.
Did your parents have to first crank the phone?
I remember those odd rings and dialing sequences. I was 5 years old when my Greats would count incoming rings. When they dialed their neighbors, I thought they had forgotten what they wanted to discuss and just hung up the phone.
Yeah...we were uppity with our own phone number.
