 Woodbury, Connecticut's independent telephone company abandoned its last party lines in 1991, the last in that state to do so.The same year, Southwestern Bell announced its intentions to replace all of its party lines in Texas with individual line service by November 1994, and the company's last party line finally shut down in 1996.Pacific Bell phased out most of its party lines by 1997, and the last ones operating in Nevada shut down in 2001.