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After 145 years one of the last remaining vestiges of the Old West has finally come to an end. On January 27, 2006, Western Union sent its final telegram. I really hadn't given this much thought. But in this day and age, who would use it? sad though to see another relic of the past go from usage in the real world to being a museum piece. In my 38 years I have never received or sent a telegram. Any of you?
I was thinking that myself. Thats why I was surprised when I came across the article saying it had only been a couple years since it's demise.
In my 38 years I have never received or sent a telegram. Any of you?
One Christmas day (in the late 1970s) my mother, siblings, and I received a telegram from my father who was in Alaska. He wished us a Merry Christmas, said the phone lines were busy, and that he would keep trying to call us.
