277-4463 Don't recall area codes at the time, but do remember figuring out how too call long distance from my sisters house to home when I was about 5-6. Apparently that was frowned upon in 1970?
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Posts: 13647 | Location: Madison, MS | Registered: December 10, 2007
Yep, though it changed three times over the next ten years or so. The original number was given to someone else who was friends of the family that were on the same party line as us a few years later. The area code changed a long time ago also. I think the number is still with that family almost 60 years later, so it won't be shared.
Posts: 4095 | Location: Fairfax Co. VA | Registered: August 03, 2015
Don't remember the family number, but the "landline" number I have now is one that my family and I have had for over 50 years. I do remember my girlfriend's, JE2-6982 (JE for Jefferson, in the DC area at that time, exchange prefixes were almost all Revolutionary/Civil War heroes, and founding fathers, JEfferson, JAckson, HAmilton, MAdison, MOsby, etc.) Post offices/neighborhoods were often identically named, and coincided with the letter prefixes assigned in that area. We went from letter prefixes to numbers-only some time in the 60's IIRC. I vaguely remember how wierd it seemed to get a phone directory with only numbers in it. It shrank the physical size of the book because the exchange letters had
been printed in a larger typeface which meant they could get more listings on a page.
I also remember that at some time in the early 70's house numbers were changed throughout the county from those formerly assigned by developers to a somewhat uniform system where they increased from East to West and North to South. I assume that this was so first responders could estimate the approximate location of an address just from the number, much as in cities with numbered streets. We continued to get mail addressed to the "old" house number for many years afterward, and I still remember the number.
Posts: 8071 | Location: NoVA | Registered: July 22, 2009
My father had a funeral home so we had one of the few private lines in our small town, the doctor was the only other one I recall. Our number was GIbson32. The Central Office had an operator on 24 hour duty.
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Posts: 3171 | Location: See der Rabbits, Iowa | Registered: June 12, 2007
Yes, the black bakelite phone sat on the bookcase (leaded glass door) that separated the living room from the dining room. The phone had a pretty long cord and my sister, whose bedroom was just off the dining room, would seemingly talk to her friends for hours. She still sees a group of five friends from all those years ago regularly.
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Posts: 14844 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: January 10, 2008
Yup. 703-534-4304. I remember all of the ones I’ve had, as I suspect most of us “pre-cell contact list” folks do.
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I remember our home and business lines. 226-2568 and 226-2011. We were in such a small area all we had to do was dial the last four digits. I think that changed about 20 years ago.
Originally posted by Fly-Sig: Sure I remember it, but won't post it. It was a security question on numerous accounts in the past.
I remember my phone number when I lived in Memphis Tennessee as a kid under 10 years old. Apparently, LexisNexis also remembers my phone number when I was a kid living in Memphis. That number was used in one of 4 possible answers to a security question presented to me when signing up for something online.
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Posts: 5603 | Location: North Mississippi | Registered: August 09, 2002
Im old, too. Mine began with CL, or "Clifton," as we used to say. I'm not putting the rest up because I use it sometimes as a password/code, being one of my earliest memories it's likely to be the last to go.
Posts: 17699 | Location: Lexington, KY | Registered: October 15, 2006
Trenton 32J. Pick up the reciever, wait to see if anyone else was on the line and tell the operator who you wanted to call. The first dial number was 676-3257. Both are long gone.
Posts: 761 | Location: Rural W. MI | Registered: February 25, 2011
