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3catwoman3

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30. I remember my mother saying she and her 15 months younger sister liked...
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 09:28 PM
17 hrs ago

...to play at being telephone operators. Their bed headboards were metal and the design was rows and rows of little perforations (either hexagonal or octagonal) that looked very much like the boards the operators sat at. They would plug things into the perforations and pretend to be operators.

This would have been way back in the early 1930s. I remember those headboards from visiting my grandparents' house in the late 1950s-early 1960s.

Thanks for the memory.

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I remember my mother saying she and her 15 months younger sister liked... 3catwoman3 17 hrs ago #30
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