Louisiana Town Awaits Telephone Age

KingFishKingFish
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
It's no secret what the 15 householders in this tiny settlement want for Christmas: the same thing they have always wanted year round--telephones.
Alexander Graham Bell's invention of 1876 never reached Mink, a onetime trappers' paradise in the Kisatchie National Forest in west-central Louisiana, although neighbors just down the road on Highways 117 and 118 were wired for telephones in the 1970s.

The telephone also never reached the hundred families of Shaw and Black Hawk, hunting and camping communities across the state along the Mississippi River, some of the few and untabulated places around the country lacking telephone lines. Yes, the telephone is not everywhere. In fact, televisions are more common in American homes today.
Boy does this do wonders for the image of Lousyana. -KF

Source: c|net

Comments

  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    yep and you live there~!
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Dude, I'm gonna set up a point-to-point wireless antenna and get MAD PAID off of those people! :rarr:
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited December 2004
    I know where that town is, I used to drive through Hwy 117 (a very windy and small state highway) from home to college. You'd better watch Deliverance again if you wish to venture back in those parts. :zombie:
  • Access_DeniedAccess_Denied tennessee
    edited December 2004
    ugh.."SQUEEL LIKE AH PIG!!!!! WEEEEEEEEK!"
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited December 2004
    and, "you got purdy lips there boy"
  • deepseadeepsea Lancaster, PA
    edited December 2004
    None of this has answered the rest of the question. Do they have cellular service? Not having wired telephone is not really a problem is you have decent cell service. Many people have chosed that option intentionally.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    rofl ...there are areas of the marsh that i wouldn't go unarmed.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Makes me think the place is mighty sparse...

    ~Cyrix
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    It's kinda wierd to think of a place not having access to landlines...
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited December 2004
    With a story like this, who would would ever think that three of the top six folders would be from grand ole Lousyana....
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited December 2004
    Reminds me of that episode of Family Guy... or was that backwoods Kansas?
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited December 2004
    Lets preserve the past somewhere.

    On a different note, doesn't everyone have cell phones today? Of course they are very unreliable, but they are still a phone.
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