We were Adams2-xxxx. You could tell the newcomers to town because they had Adams3-xxxx numbers.

I've been tempted a few times to call my childhood number to see who has it now.

Back in the 60’s our home phone number was 655.this was in the 60’s and it was fun to call from another city. You would ask for long distance and give the operator the area code and the number 655, big pause then the operator would ask for the rest of the number and you would say that’s it.

The county courthouse numbers were 2 digits.

To make a call you picked up the and the operator said number please. My father had an office in town and sometimes when he asked for another business the operator would say Jim is at so and so’s I’ll ring there.

BR-549

Too late ..

First number I remember was my parents apt in Chicago - we were CL(aremont)9-4623.

We moved to the suburbs in early '63. By then we had dropped the prefix letters, and the new was just numbers...392-2464.

When we moved to Mass in the summer of '67, I learned a new wrinkle... Our entire small town had the same prefix -468-. To call someone in town, all you needed to dial was the 4, plus their last 4 digits. (I remember that number too).

I grew up in very small town Iowa, population about 500 at that time. Our phone number was 32 or if calling from out of town (GI)bson 32. We had one of 2 private lines in town. The local doctor had one and we had the other. My dad owned the funeral home.

Jenny's was 867-5309

I remember two from my youth. OLdfield9-XXXX and Swafmore6-XXXX