Remember Your First Home Phone Number?

First one was Poplar.
It was a party line.
Next was Diamond.
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On I Love Lucy, whenever Lucy or Ricky Ricardo gave out their phone number, they'd say it as, "Murray Hill 5-9975." Even though that may look and sound like gibberish to modern phone-users, it was perfectly normal at the time. Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do.

Ricky probably got her number from the bathroom wall in Cuba.