Letter: Listening in, in Another Era

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To the Editor:

Phones were constantly "on tap" when I was a teenager growing up in the 1950s.

In our small western New York village, the party line prevailed. Pick up the phone, and hear the daily plans and talk of others sharing your line.

Placing a local call meant asking Gertrude the operator to ring a neighbor. My father asked, "Gert, can you get me Gladys?" "No, Billy, she is not home; she went to Rochester this morning."

More than 60 years ago, there was listening in, but we knew that it was happening. No secret court orders, no government surveillance, no tapes, no follow-ups except to ask our neighbor about her visit to "the city."

FRANCIS W. RODGERS
Washington, June 17, 2013

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