I’ve never used a party line, but my wife has. She would spend summers with her grandmother in the hills of Virginia. And her grandmother had a party line. I used a dial phone for longer than I used push-button phones. And way longer than I have used cell phones. We moved from California to Texas in 1981 when I was 9. I went from the standard of the day 7 digit phone number for local calls to only needing to dial 4 digits because there were fewer than 400 phone numbers. Every number began 63.