EPISODE · Nov 3, 2025 · 3 MIN
Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines
from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson
This week we're replaying episodes that are anything but phoned in. For this episode from April 2022, the story of several communities in Indiana that started their own wired telephone service, and the wire they used was plain old fence wire. Plus: Kansas City celebrates Fountain Day. Barb-Wire telephone line (Insulators.info)Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Connected The Old Frontier (Successful Farming podcast)Everything You Need To Know About Fountains In Kansas City (VisitKC)Reach out and touch someone (figuratively speaking) as a backer on Patreon
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