Anyone ever have a party line telephone?

When I was a kid, the phone out at the cabin was on a party line until the early 80s I think.

Never had a party line, but in my early years, we still had an operator who connected calls for us. You'd pick up the phone (no dial on the phone itself at the time) and you'd hear, "Operator. Number please." Our phone number was Hopkins 9-2598, or you could say it as HO9-2598.

Yeah, I'm that old. Well, okay - we lived in a small suburb of Chicago back then, so...
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We didn't have an official party line, but there were many times where I would call a friend and join the call with another friend, and then they would join their calls with two friends and before you knew it we had half a dozen compadres on the same call.

It's remarkable that conveniences have advanced such that we can all join a Zoom session at the same time after watching a movie, but there's progress for you!

No, but I really like Pillow Talk.

Yes - we did until my early teens in the 60's.

Technically no but I did live in an apartment complex where the phone lines would cross over somehow. You'd pick up the phone and two people would already be talking. Or worse you're on the phone and someone else would come on the line.

My granny had one.

Don't ever recall any parties though.

No, didn't even know there was such a thing till this thread.