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tomwed 10-13-2014 02:08 PM
What was your first phone number?
 
Mine was UNion 7 oh oh 78. This was before zero had a name and your area was as far as you could see.

BTW, did you ever pick up your phone back then and hear 2 people talking and wonder how this could be? I did. We only owned one phone.

manaboutown 10-13-2014 02:13 PM
This was back in the 1940's. Our family's had five digits which I remember clearly. We had a two party line. The parties had different rings so you knew when to pick up and when to pass. We had a rotary dial on our heavy single black telephone. Long distance cost a fortune and was operator assisted either station to station or person to person (even more costly).

Sometimes we used telegrams.

duhbear 10-13-2014 02:26 PM
8-3804

shcisamax 10-13-2014 02:30 PM
CLearwater 9 2867

Patty55 10-13-2014 02:53 PM
ANdrew 5-3938. Just one phone in the kitchen, a rotary with a big long cord that always knotted up.

KayakerNC 10-13-2014 03:10 PM
BR-549

http://goinglikesixty.com/wp-content...-haw-br549.jpg

rubicon 10-13-2014 03:11 PM
My mother and father's 253 6108

jblum315 10-13-2014 03:15 PM
OXford 7-3150

kittygilchrist 10-13-2014 03:28 PM
In perry, fl.
5033-K

DougB 10-13-2014 03:33 PM
271-2575

bookseller61 10-13-2014 03:36 PM
LYric2-6249 Elmsford NY

pbkmaine 10-13-2014 03:39 PM
GReenwood 3-3789

bookseller61 10-13-2014 03:39 PM
LYric2-6249

Carla B 10-13-2014 03:44 PM
2-4035. Same number as on the family car license plate. The number "2" stood for the county, ranked according to population, "1" being the most populous.

Halibut 10-13-2014 04:00 PM
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.


Quote:
2-4035. Same number as on the family car license plate
How did you manage that? Was it a small town that let you choose your phone number?

troy1smith 10-13-2014 04:06 PM
JACKSON 1-1236 KELLOG 7-8857 MID 50 s

gomoho 10-13-2014 04:09 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DougB (Post 952380)
271-2575
REALLY???? How old are you.

tedquick 10-13-2014 04:14 PM
We were on an 8-party line. Our ring was 2 longs and a short. I don't remember the number for sure, but I think it was 214, but I do remember our plumbers and that only because of the writing on the side of his trucks. "Don't fuss. Don't cuss. Call us. 88-W".

KathieI 10-13-2014 04:16 PM
SYcamore 2-0316 Bronx, NY circa mid-1950's

Sparty6971 10-13-2014 04:20 PM
First ever phone (I was a young kid): Our "number" was two shorts and a long. Yep, you held down the hook, cranked the handle and told the operator who you wanted to talk to. If they said us, she would crank out the 2-S and 1-L "number." Goodrich, Michigan

The first real phone number that other people could dial to get us was CEdar 57548. Burton Township, Michigan. It was a party line so yes, you could pick up the phone and listen to others talking on the line since we shared it with a couple of other families on our street.

Nipper 10-13-2014 04:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 952327)
Mine was Union 7 oh oh 78. This was before zero had a name and your area was as far as you could see.

BTW, did you ever pick up your phone back then and hear 2 people talking and wonder how this could be? I did. We only owned one phone.
You had a "party" line --- which was a shared line with another customer.

borjo 10-13-2014 04:37 PM
2369

fishon 10-13-2014 04:44 PM
Hemlock (HE) 9 1492

OCsun 10-13-2014 04:45 PM
Beachwood 4-5789 you could call me any old time! :)

Deter1 10-13-2014 05:49 PM
What was your first telephone number
 
TRojan2-1813

jojo 10-13-2014 06:27 PM
424 - party line in very small town - Williamsport Ohio (near Circleville OH)

Toms River T&D 10-13-2014 07:35 PM
Growing up was SOmerville 8-0001,

Carla B 10-13-2014 07:42 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Halibut (Post 952400)
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.

Serenoa 10-13-2014 07:43 PM
Tucker 4-2202 ....on a farm in east central Illinois. It was a party line with five other families on our country road. I remember my mom & dad having to politely ask Mrs. Brooks to get off the line so we could make a call, otherwise she would stay on it all day talking to her sister, who only lived about another half-mile away.

dbussone 10-13-2014 07:48 PM
WA2-6022
In Beverly Massachusetts. WA stands for Walker.

lanabanana73 10-13-2014 08:52 PM
359-j

tomwed 10-13-2014 10:18 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Serenoa (Post 952492)
Tucker 4-2202 ....on a farm in east central Illinois. It was a party line with five other families on our country road. I remember my mom & dad having to politely ask Mrs. Brooks to get off the line so we could make a call, otherwise she would stay on it all day talking to her sister, who only lived about another half-mile away.
What a great story about Americana in our lifetime. It is possible a billion and a half people in a few seconds could be reading this.

I don't know why, but I wish I knew Mrs. Brooks too.

Bonanza 10-14-2014 04:18 AM
LIvingston 9-4017

It was a partyline in Philadelphia.

OldManTime 10-14-2014 04:38 AM
2788m

Rollie 10-14-2014 04:48 AM
Concord4-6754. In Milwaukee, with a party line. Weird how one can remember something so far back, and can't remember their current number.

Rollie

HDriders 10-14-2014 05:04 AM
SPruce 7-3526 Mohnton PA

2BNTV 10-14-2014 06:20 AM
YO 9-3818, (Yonkers N.Y.)

I faintly recall the phone numbers being 5 digits. Remember the party lines, and some people listened, when they picked up the phone, and someone was already using the party line.

Heavens to Mergatriod!!

asianthree 10-14-2014 07:04 AM
We didn't have a phone number which is picked up the phone and asked Melanie to get so-and-so. And sometimes she listen in

Rollie 10-14-2014 07:50 AM
I'm not pointing fingers here, but some people on this thread are older than dirt.

Rollie

Sandtrap328 10-14-2014 08:39 AM
The telephone exchange at my office was Dudley 9. I always thought that was hilarious.


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