Charles and Frieda Bytheway, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, November 6, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 414

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CHARLES AND FRIEDA BYTHEW A Y NOVEMBER 6, 2001 CHA: We hved In our hfetime, in thinking back, when I was a kid, you know, the phone would ring, ring a long and three shorts, and I remember 103M, which was our phone number I still remember our phone number And when "M" came, you know, when it rang "M" in Morse code, then we knew it was for us. And If you wanted to talk to your neighbor, sometimes you'd just pick up the phone and they were on the line already BEC: Oh (laughs). CHA: So you'd say, "Hey, while you're on the hne can you tell so-and-so " BEC: So you're really connected to your neighbors, In a real sense. CHA: You had several people on the same line. And I remember when we got our first radio and we were able to, as little kids, we had these earphones and we'd put them in our ear and we could hear people talking and said, "Man, isn't that something. You can hear people." And then we had a short wave, the radio had a short wave thing and so at night you could get stations In Austraha and some places like that. BEC: Oh, yeah? CHA: And that was so fascinating and we always had an ice box that we put our milk in. And the Ice man would come down the street with his wagon and a horse pulhng It and then he'd chop off a chunk of ice and bring It in and put it In our Icebox and then he also sold ice cream cones. And If we wanted an ice cream cone we'd go and we'd find a couple of eggs out In the haystack that the chickens had lmd and we'd take them and trade them for Ice cream cones. FRI: We did a lot of trading. 50