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Jan 20, 2021 Once McGilvaray s Grocery Store, 240 Mattapoisett Road is now a home. Photo Courtesy: Rochester Historical Society. The writer of this piece, Connie Eshbach, is the vice president of the Rochester Historical Society. This is part of a series of Rochester history pieces.   Today, many of the younger generations know phones to be an essential item to carry with them at all times. Devices to use as cameras, to text and to store all the important aspects of life. A landline phone, particularly one with a dial, is an antique to be puzzled over. Older residents of Rochester, however, remember not just landlines with easily accessible human operators, but also party lines. My mother told stories of calling home from college in Boston to let her father know when to pick her up from the train in Bridgewater. The operator would tell her that her father was at the Mill, but she d make sure that he got the message.

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