--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Dennis Redmond wrote:
>
> > > John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of
> the Peace, pp. 11-12:
> >>
> >> The inhabitant of London could order by
> telephone, sipping his
> >> morning tea in bed
> >
> >How many people had phones during Keynes' day?
> Relatively few.
Hell, when I was living near Cambridge in the early 1980s, people didn't have phones. The house that my flat was in -- a converted mansion, we lived in the pool room, excuse me, billiards room -- had a payphone in the central hall. You wanted to get in touch with a
friend, you'd bicycle to see them. Since we lived nearer to Trumpington than town, that was often a three five mile ride - just to see if someone was in.
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