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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.

If US wants musicians to take rail, it needs baggage cars on regular trains from NYC to Boston, ideally entire North East Corridor Boston-NYC-DC, or better yet Greenfield MA-Springfield MA-Worcester MA-Boston-NYC-DC-Richmond-Norfolk VA-Elizabeth City NC, & Boston-NYC-DC-VA-Raleigh NC-Charlotte NC.

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

🤣🤣🤣

I’m still fairly young, but my whole town growing up had the same area code & prefix, so if you asked someone’s phone number it was just the last four digits… mom had sidewalks made of wood and grandpa had polio. Wild

They still had them in rural Hawaii when I moved here in the mid 90s.

Agism is bad.

Is being old a criticism?

😑

Someone that remembers their phone number from over 50 years ago-VIctor 2-0170- but can’t remember any between that and my current number.👵

Us

Old enough to have a GRAMERCY exchange.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuY...

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

These childhood home phone numbers make for pretty good passwords.

STerling 3-1912, that was a Brooklyn number! My neighborhood had a horse-drawn rag-and-bone wagon and a fruit wagon with an Italian guy yelling "Peach-ays! Peach-ay three pound fah a dahlah!!!" that came around in the summers. I don't think I'm that old but I may also be fooling myself.

Oops Trinidad 2-1463

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