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What year could you buy a home telephone at a store?

Asked by ariwriter (63points) July 24th, 2008

For many decades, the Ma Bell System provided telephone service and telephones themselves to households in exchange for user fees.

I’m having trouble locating an approximate year that telephones could be bought in stores. Was it as late as the divestiture in 1984? I thought it would be 1950s. Anyone know or remember?

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