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Old 10-13-2014, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Halibut View Post
Good on all of you for remembering those!

I have a dim recollection of my grandmother's number being CYpress something in San Diego.

I do remember "long distance" being mentioned by the adults in the house in hushed tones, because of the expense. It was mostly saved for brief calls to relatives on Christmas.

Ma Bell also used to gouge us for "message units" on calls that were out of the immediate area (like, 10 miles) but weren't officially long distance.




How did you manage that? Was it a small town that let you choose your phone number?
Yes, ours was a small town but I don't know how the license plate came to be the same as the phone number. I was a young teenager at the time and not concerned with such trivial matters. Probably the phone number preceded the license plate.