Suburban Chicago, October 1963. Mom wasn't on the phone for pleasure. She's standing in the kitchen, ans it's likely a patient interrupted her meal. The rotary phone was pink (to match the walls), and its label featured the old phone-number system: "FIlmore 5- ...."
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Mom was an MD?
Account me suitably impressed.
And I remember when doctors made house calls. They may have gotten to the point where more could be done at the office, but a lot of people appreciated that extra effort.
PS I used to have a chenille bedspread like the one in the link.
Cowboy motif, of course.
edutcher, yes, she was a pediatrician. Female MDs were common in Europe. At least half of Mom's med school class was made up of women.
A teacher at my grade school once knocked me on the side of my head for lying after I announced that my Mom was a doctor. She asserted, "Don't lie; your Mom is a nurse."
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