Six Bells

When we were children growing up in a brick Georgian-style house in Larchmont, part of Mamaroneck New York, there was an old fashioned doorbell system in our house. Historically the buzzers was so servants could be called with buzzers in the center of the room on the floor (you could call with your foot!) and one on the sun-porch. My mother loved them and decided she would buzz the bells for us when she wanted us to come for meals. Three rings meant DINNER, six meant emergency and we were instructed to jump off her second floor bedroom porch.