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McClure converted in 1980 to an electronic switching system with all touch-tone phones.

The customers found themselves getting used to the new and impersonal equipment, and looking up numbers in phone books.

After years of party lines, they were enjoying having private lines.

While the phone company remains in McClure and has yet to be consolidated into a larger telecom company, today most of McClure's businesses are long closed, as are those in most of the boom towns which grew up in the same era as McClure.

Today a McClure resident would be likely to drive to Napoleon or Bowling Green to go shopping, or possibly to Toledo.

The rail lines which brought so much money into the area are abandoned.