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Originally Posted by davet753
My parents didn't get electricity until after WWII. They lived in a fairly rural section of East TN, and electric service simply wasn't available at that time.
I have a cousin who died at the age of 65 in 1995, who never had electricity. The local electric system brought lines through the section where she lived in the mid 1950's, and even ran a distribution line across her property. Her father refused to have the house wired and hooked up, and after he died she wouldn't either.
The only piece of technology she owned was a battery powered radio. I still have a tube-type plastic Silvertone farm radio from the late 40's that they used until they bought a transistor radio in the early 60's. When she gave it to me, I remember her telling me the only reason they switched to a little transistor radio was because the cost of "A" and "B" batteries got to be expensive.
My cousin was the only person I ever knew who never had electricity or a telephone.
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Yeah, we didn't have "lights" countywide, til like 1952.