My grandmother had an old rotary dial phone, and was on a party line. She would be talking on the phone and she would tell someone, I will be off in 2 minutes. It was an old black phone, with some sort of fabric type chord. I also remember when I was about 11 years old that one of my birthday gifts was a transistor radio.. I was so happy to have that miniature radio to listen to the songs when I was in my bedroom at night and try to turn the volume low so my parents would not hear it. There were no earplugs at that time to keep the noise down. This would have been in the mid to late 50's.