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I stayed in a hotel around the corner from Russ and Daughters. I didn’t eat breakfast anywhere else for over 2 weeks. It’s incredible.

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I remember as a child our home phone number started with "Franklin".

I moved to NYC in the early 2000s. I remember the angst, bc I also personally suffered, when they had to add new areas codes. Sharing your phone number became (yet another) snobby comparison/competition btw the Have's (i.e. "real" locals, NYCers with 212 or 917) vs the Not's (347 and 645).

You can get your weekly dose of sodium in one day at those 2 great institutions that are a couple of blocks apart ❤️

My parents. Same landline for 71 years.

The best bagels!♥️

I can’t recall the entire phone number but I do recall my grandparents-who lived on park avenue and 91st - had an Atwater exchange

I worked at a place where I found some old forgotten half-sheet letterhead that had the phone number listed as TExas 7-2412, and we still had that number in the 2000s.

I still remember my grandparents' phone number: Hudson 7-5775

My mother had her phone number for 64 years-1955 to 2019. Originally it was a name (Greenleaf) then shortened to the first two letters (GR) followed by 5 numbers and finally the area code plus 7 numbers. She lost the number when we moved her out of the area code.

I can’t remember the full number. But MIssion xxxxxx .

Love it. The neighborhood in Chicago I grew up in, the first three were 288 = BU8 or BUtterfield 8.

That HAS to be a 212, right?

Mine was JUniper 8-3339. My girl friend was DIversey8-4750. I was born in 47 and she, in 50.

And now it’s gone 😭

Who’s got Pennsylvania 6-5000 now?

My grandparents might be in there—Joseph & Alice Ovies. My mother was born that year in a hospital that is now an apartment building (if not torn down entirely). Old phone books are treasures.

did NYC have the white pages that listed name, numbers and addresses or was that a regional thing??

As in the tune!

MUrray hill, PLaza, REgent, SPring, CIrcle, LOrraine, WOrth all in Manhattan. We had ULster and Gedney and such.

Sadly the Hotel Pennsylvania is no more. Took it down brick by brick.

The number of my best friend in elementary school was 1000.

Video or Glenn Miller Band “PEnnsylvania 6-5000” song. youtu.be/AGOUldTrk-A

I grew up with rotary phones and only just learned that from this thread. I thought the old numbers just had five digits.

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One of my dad’s friends had the last party line in Brooklyn. I think Ma Bell made them give it up in the mid-1970s.

Agism is bad.

Is being old a criticism?

😑

Define old.

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Circle 7 - 9281 was the # of my dad’s business in the 60’s.

926-8684. Second grade to 12th Grade.

MAdison 5-7555

HUmbolt9-9412

How is it I can remember this and I have no idea what I ate for lunch yesterday? Or what I was looking for when I walked in here?

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We weren't using names anymore when I was a kid in Toronto but the first digits still represented the neighbourhood of the number.

*your competitors

Mine was MO8-5757. Montrose 8.

513-335-3546

FOrest 8-3677. And I am that old 😀

SOuth 8-7720, changed to TRiangle 1-8720 at some point before the letters were dropped

My dad’s barber shop (not far from Gramercy, from the late 60s or maybe earlier) was GR5-9513, and it still is. The actual phone was not a phone line they paid for, but a pay phone in the waiting area of the shop.

GR5

The Iceman Dials 9 for an Outside Line.

PEnnsylvania 6-5000

"Calling The Oldest Phone Numbers In America" is a podcast series I'd occassionally listen to if the numbers were provacative enough.

I love Russ & Daughters (slightly off-point 😊)

Mine families was Taylor. I have no idea where that came from.

Are there still true landlines (copper wire) in Manhattan? Verizon disconnected them in Brooklyn about 5 years ago.

GEdney and ULster here.

I still remember Jenny's number from my youth. It was 867-5309

We know R&D has had the phone number for 60 years, anyhow, because that's when the bag design is from

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Being a lifelong local outer borough NYer and trying to survive gentrification in your hometown was no joke. Those tears were earned.

holy moly

The development of my parents' landline number in Voss, Norway (the first two were actually my grandparents'): 32 132 17132 515132 56515132 Today, they've abandoned the landlines for mobiles

My home phone number must be over 40 at this point, been thinking of cancelling it since we only get scams calling on the land-line anymore

I wonder if Artie Shaw had bagels and lox on the brain when he named his jazz quintet the Gramercy 5? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCBH...

Phone numbers like GRamercy 5-4880 sound best when read in a 1930s radio announcer voice.

VERY cool!

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Gr(amercy) 5-=4880!! This is wonderful. Imagine telling a young person your phone # was Gramercy!!!