I mentioned in my previous column how much I enjoyed brother Terry’s column on pay phones. How important those gadgets were to journalists, such as he, who spent many miles on this region’s roads, in need of a phone with which to turn in a story. Obviously, the laptop computer and smartphone, and other modes of communication, have changed all of that.
Before cell phones, anyone who traveled for their job became familiar with the location of e…
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Jim is associate editor of Tri-State Neighbor and also works with the SDSU Alumni Foundation.





