I remember it. Mom and Dad still have the same number.

I remember my best friend's number, too. He and his parents moved a long, long time ago.

I remember my grandparents' number. Who knows who's got that number now... it's been nearly 35 years now since it was turned off at that house.

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Originally posted by jed7s9b:
My parents kept same land line for 60+ years. I was tempted to port it to cell phone when my father passed but that only made sense for sentimental reasons. I am curious who has it now.

That's what I did for my mother-in-law.

When my father-in-law passed, my wife and I started helping Mom with her bills as she had never handled any financial matters.

AT&T had been robbing them blind on their landline bill. I tried to get AT&T to remove some of the ridiculous stuff they were charging her for every month, but, no surprise, they wouldn't budge.

We convinced Mom to get a cellphone and I had the landline number she'd had from the 1960s ported over as her cellphone number.

LIberty 8-3537

447-5823. Probably the first number I ever learned and will never forget.

I only remember a few #’s now because you don’t need to anymore with our phones.

Heck, you don’t even have to dial and just tell your phone who to call.

SP[77]ring8-9685. That’s when the exchanges used words to indicate numbers. Also it was a “party line” ring to indicate it was a call incoming for your number.

83-2178. Moved to the apartment when i was 5 years old. Kindergarden was a few buildings down the street. Still have a very good friend i met back then.

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#33. The lumberyard was #30.

When we went to seven digits, we still only had to dial the last digit of the prefix and then the four for the suffix.

Our first seven-digit number ended in 3300 (perhaps a carryover of the preceding system), then later changed to 5665.

The wife and I moved so often in the Navy, I think we had 10 phone numbers over the career. I remember none of them.

Like a few others, my mom still lives in the same house they bought in 1963 and I grew up in. The phone number is still the same as it was in the 60s (the prefix changed a couple of times as more people moved the Florida and they had to carve up area code areas).

I can only remember Jenny's number. 867-5309

Yes I remember it.

We didn't need numbers; we had Ernestine.

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Yes, I do remember it.

Sure do, and the rotary phone I used to dial on.... LOL

867-5309... oh, never mind. My memory has been corrupted!

Yes. I use some of the old number in passwords and use a phone number from after college for grocery store fake information for rewards card.

In the late 1920's, my grandmothers phone number was (name of the small town in MA) 1.

In the 1940's,1950's, and into the early 1960's our phone number was 446 then it was 2446 when the town grew a little bit.

Yes.

I also remember the full page / pages of handwritten phone numbers hanging next to our kitchen phone.

I’d guess that the members here of that era could recall at least half of those phone numbers (at the time) without having to look them up!

Now, with all phone numbers saved on the smart-phone’s directory, I only know a handful or so from the gray-matter storage.

Yep. It started as a 415 number, then 510, then 925. Now I don't know who has it, or if that house still has POTS service. Somehow I doubt it.

501-758-0757

Hell no. I couldn't come up with that if you paid me. What I do remember is being on a 10 party line. Each home had a distinctive ring and they could all listen in if they wanted.