IN an era of smart phones and mobile telephone service extreme, it might be hard to image the past. However, it was in the spring of 1960 that Layton, Kaysville and Farmington were the last communities in Davis County to receive direct dial telephone service.
Before that, telephone users had to have the assistance of an operator.
According to the Weekly Reflex newspaper of April 21, 1960, it cost $900,000 to implement dial service in the three remaining cities of Davis County. And, some 50 telephone operators all lost their jobs at the same time.
As another result of the change, new telephone directories had to be made available to the greater area, so that telephone numbers could be accessed readily by the public.
-Another "ancient" telephone limitation into the 1960s were the use of "party lines." This is where several houses nearby shared the same telephone line. Thus, at times, a resident might have had to wait to use the telephone if a neighbor was already talking on it.
The original Layton Drug Store on Main Street in about 1910. The upstairs rooms here housed Layton's very first telephone switchboard operators.
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