[lanabanana73]

359-j

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by Serenoa

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]

LIvingston 9-4017

It was a partyline in Philadelphia.

[OldManTime]

2788m

[Rollie]

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]

SPruce 7-3526 Mohnton PA

[2BNTV]

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]

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]

I'm not pointing fingers here, but some people on this thread are older than dirt.

Rollie

[Sandtrap328]

The telephone exchange at my office was Dudley 9. I always thought that was hilarious.

[birdawg]

SYcamore 2 3074 Bronx NY

[cybrgeezer]

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

[alanmcdonald]

Northern New Jersey: HAwthorne 7-5632

[chuck90199]

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?

[TheScoodlepoops]

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.