[jcrawfordor]

While researching another topic in newspaper archives I recently came across a piece from the late '50s lamenting the number of people in Albuquerque, NM who were still on 4- and even 10-home party lines. By the time of the editorial this was already uncommon in cities (the point of the editorial was to complain that the Bell System had been very slow in upgrading Albuquerque), but at that time it was still very common outside of the few major cities in NM.