SYcamore 2 3074 Bronx NY

JAckson 1-9929, a four-party line in St. Louis in the 1950s.

Northern New Jersey: HAwthorne 7-5632

In Manchester, NH in the early 1940s - The number was 3752-W
It was a party line... at least one other family on it. Different rings for the different families, but I don't remember what ours was. Frequently there was someone on it talking when you picked it up to make a call.

Sometime in the late 40's or very early 50's we got a big black heavy "dial" telephone. NAtional 2-9717. There was an assembly at school where a lady with a giant telephone spent probably an hour showing us little kids how to dial.

Now why is it that I can remember that stuff from 60 to 70 years ago, but I can't remember my own cell phone number?

143-J -- Small town in KY and picked up phone and ask the operator to connect to whatever number you were calling. Once we moved to NC, I had a devil of a time getting a long distance operator to complete a call.

I remember Hawthorne. Mine was Union and I think that has something to do with Union City. We lived in Secaucus.

TA3-7521 and we only had one rotary phone with a party line, in The Bronx
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A starter taught me a trick to remember my Village ID number. He said instead of trying to remember all 6 numbers look at your ID number as a series of 3, 2 digit numbers. Instantly I memorized my ID number.

white 496. The color identified it as a party line white,yellow, etc.). If you could get a private line it would have been just 496
Cortland, Ohio

867-5309

My Mom still using it so can't give it out. Even though only telemarketers call it now.

wow, that's amazing.
how old is the number? i just presume you are retired and not like 12 years old.

732 5074.....LI about 50 yrs ago

We were on a 3-way party line
 

and as a side note, I'M OLD, remember a phone number a gazillion years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I don't think so....I'm amazed at all previous posters that DO remember....Wow!

:):) My number was and still is......Frankfooter 8=u812. Call me:bigbow::bigbow:

"Hudson3-2700" --If you're from the Chicago area, and over 55, you remember the number AND who it was very well. Good ol' days of telephone numbers.

I'm 46 and my parents bought house when I was born. Same phone number first it was (Bell) then (ATT) now is (Frontier). Just started internet 1 1/2 ago in little town of 200 people.

Many often use old addresses or phone numbers for passwords. I even use an old license plate number. Easy to remember and hard to trace.

RAvenswood 6-2411

I saw your number on the wall, also said for a good time call.

In Brooklyn NY Dickens 5-2684 DI 52684

761-2528 my parents phone; 716-1527 my own one

2244 on 7 party line. to dial out of town had to dial zero to get operator.

The Marvelettes. Surprised no one else mentioned this.

Ask for Jenny.

It was 4 digits, we called them numbers back then. The phone was black, heavy and did not have a rotary. It was a party line with four other families. To make a call we picked up the phone and generally told the operator who we wanted. We lived in rural Indiana. I don't ever remembering us making a long distance call. Out of the question do to the cost.

Funny thing is I think some folks may be paying proportiantely more to day for some cell services.

lol.

592-4315 My dad still had this number when he passed in February. Now my brother has it...

Not mine phone number but a radio commercial that many Clevelanders will remember in a catchy tune " Garfield 1-2323

I guess the one my parents had and my mother still has, over fifty years later!!

My dad still has the number my grandparents had when it switched to 7 #'s
228-3790
The first number I can recall is from 5th grade
931-1999

VIctor 4 0356.
First thing my mother drilled into me for safety, and dial Operator for any emergency. One time during my First COOP Job, wanted to have operator to call home collect. She could not figure out how to dial number, could not understand letters.

We had 2 numbers as my father was a doctor and his office was located in part of the house=trinity 6-3344 was office and trinity 6- 3345 was the house number. Since it was a party line only needed one phone for the office and the house.

I'd love to post, but my mom still has the same phone number! 66 years in the same house and still going strong at 93!

Haha! Any kids reading this would have no idea what we're talking about. Rotary? Party lines? What's a handset?

I was thinking today about some ads that still say, "Call 1-800..."

Who dials 1 any more? The people still using their land lines with the same number from 30 years ago? :)

We had a party line, ( No , not that kind of party! )
Maybe you remember, back in the day , it meant sharing your telephone line with another party. Our family shared with a family of 12 down the block!

Two longs and a short. You would crank the magneto and when "central" answered you would tell her who you wanted to call and she would plug you into the right party on her switchboard. It was a party line as well, with several neighboring families on nearby farms. When the system was upgraded in the mid fifties it was AXminister 6-3887.

Can you imagine trying to explain to us back then what phones we would have today? It would seem like Buck Rogers. I can't even imagine trying to explain the computers we have. I can't tell you how many hours I spent in a library doing research for papers when now all we need is Google.

When I was asked to RESET my PASSWORD by answering a customized security question (on my healthcare website), one of the questions to choose was:

"What was your first phone number?" So, I would be careful what you put out there...

Also, another question was: "What was your nickname"

We had EL (Elgin) 6 - ####, forgot the four digits, this was from the Broomall, PA area. I remember my parents and grandparents talking about the party lines, but as I recall we actually had our own line, this was about 1950 or so.