Remember Your First Home Phone Number?

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Treblig said:
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not old.....I'm well seasoned (with a little patina). And maybe I might not be able to cut the mustard..... I can still lick the jar (and I still do!!!)!!!!
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Patina....isn’t that gravy on French fries?
 
714-646-7940. 2270 Pacific Ave, Apt D. Call it and ask for Roger....we have not had that number in 43years. I rememeber his work number too, 558-7734. I remembered that because if you turn it upside down is spells hELL-BSS. I remember the white pages still having the police as ZEnith-xxxx and fire as something else!
 
dibbons said:
Back in the '60's the phone numbers were remembered using two letters followed by five numbers.
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Are you sure about that?
I know that was the case in the East and middle of the country but what about the Western states?
I remember all my phone numbers starting with the house we lived in in 1971. All were numeric only.
 
It was everywhere. The change started in the late 50’s but it was in the early 70’s before all were switched. Basically nothing changed as the letters just represented the numbers anyway.
 
In 1957 it was Mohawk 4716.. then changed to 668-4716 then changed to 905-668-4716. Mom had that number till she passed away in 2009. Someone else has it now.
 
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First one was Poplar.
It was a party line.
Next was Diamond.
Want the rest of it?


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.

 
FL 25149 (Flanders)
My friend across the street was VE 21224 (Vernen)
I have my uncles rotary wall phone displayed on my barroom wall in his honor, he had it on his kitchen wall till his death 2 years ago.
 
I took a phone out of a telco closet of a 1910 building in Long Beach being demo'd. Made of wood. Just a hookswitch, cone and a hanging megaphone earpiece. Loop start...still worked but you couldn't dial out unless the number was built for pulse dialing and you could tap out anything less than 911 (9 is almost impossible to 'pulse' dial accidentally, that's why it was chosen, they are also opposite each other on the keypad so it would be hard to mash up against it and dial that combo) although we get phantom 911 ring trouble calls all the time from static.
 
'73red-duster said:
It was everywhere. The change started in the late 50’s but it was in the early 70’s before all were switched. Basically nothing changed as the letters just represented the numbers anyway.
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The thing is lots of smaller exchanges did not use all seven, so the letter prefix was not used. Our area was "officially" CO for COngress but you only used the last 5 locally
 
pishta said:
I took a phone out of a telco closet of a 1910 building in Long Beach being demo'd. Made of wood. Just a hookswitch, cone and a hanging megaphone earpiece. Loop start...still worked but you couldn't dial out unless the number was built for pulse dialing and you could tap out anything less than 911 (9 is almost impossible to 'pulse' dial accidentally, that's why it was chosen, they are also opposite each other on the keypad so it would be hard to mash up against it and dial that combo) although we get phantom 911 ring trouble calls all the time from static.
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Kinda like this one that I have hooked up in my house??? I had do some electrical repairs and buy a pulse generator to get it to work with the newer phone lines. It really throws the grand kids for a loop!!
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Our town was so small, everyone had the same prefix. We only dialed the last four numbers, ours was 5879.
 
my parents were among the very first in our village to get a phone
in fact, back there, there were only 9 families in the entire village that had phones
my dad still remembers all of them

the Johnsons were #1
the Harrisons #2
we were #3
the vandeveens were # 4
the Spencers were # 5
the Marbrides were # 6
the Jacksons were # 7
the Becks were unlisted
the Steenstras were #9
 
PA (Parkview) 14492
I'm guessing "Parkview" because the city park was about 3 blocks away.
 
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