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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 17, 2018 12:07:01 GMT -5
The prefixes for I can remember for Tacoma were MA (Maine), SK (Skyline), LO (don't recall it), and ours GR (Greenfield). You still see this pnemonic thing with tollfree numbers like 1-800-EAT-$#*! (cleaned up to earn the PG).
Cei-U!
I summon GR2-1052 (our phone number from 1962-1979)!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 17, 2018 12:48:51 GMT -5
I don't remember telephone exchanges having letters/names. I guess I would have been learning my phone number around '72 or '73. I do remember my grandparents having a party line into the mid 70s.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 17, 2018 13:09:04 GMT -5
I don't remember telephone exchanges having letters/names. I guess I would have been learning my phone number around '72 or '73. I do remember my grandparents having a party line into the mid 70s. Apparently Michael Cohen and the FBI may have had one for quite a while now. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 13:18:12 GMT -5
I don't remember telephone exchanges having letters/names. I guess I would have been learning my phone number around '72 or '73. I do remember my grandparents having a party line into the mid 70s. Yeah, I don't remember the letter/name thing for phone number either and I was learning my phone number around the same time. However, when we moved to rural Maine circa 1980-1981, the small town we lived in still used only the 4 digit number for calls within town, but to call my grandparents 2 towns away we had to dial all 7. When I was growing up in CT too, the whole state had one area code and oyu didn;t need to dial it in state even if it was a long distance call, but while I was at university, the state introduced a second area code and now you had to dial the area code when making long distance calls even if it was the same area code. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 13:44:48 GMT -5
In my younger days - I had CH prefix (Stand for CHerry) back then and had it the same time reference as Cei-U!. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 17, 2018 15:37:42 GMT -5
All this talk about old phone numbers reminded me of something else: rural route postal addresses. Up until I was in about second or third grade, our mailing address was Route 1, Box 446. I didn't even know the name of the road we lived on until that system was changed, and our mailing address became the standard house number + street name.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 17, 2018 15:44:57 GMT -5
My grandparents had a PI at the beginning of their number. It was in Philadelphia, but I don't know that it had anything to do with that.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 17, 2018 16:20:43 GMT -5
All this talk about old phone numbers reminded me of something else: rural route postal addresses. Up until I was in about second or third grade, our mailing address was Route 1, Box 446. I didn't even know the name of the road we lived on until that system was changed, and our mailing address became the standard house number + street name. I grew up with a rural route number...Route 2, Box 118. But it's still the same here. Out in the country they don't have street names...just coordinates based on the meridian and the baseline road. So I grew up at 330 South 128 West. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 18, 2018 16:42:55 GMT -5
I don't remember any 4-digit dialing in northern NJ in the 1960s, but our phone number in 1959-64 was PLymouth 1-2358, and just as we moved to Plainfield in 1964, the phone number morphed from PLainfield 5-1824 to 755-1824, which was a party line for the first few years.
My parents moved to a rural part of Virginia in the early 1990s and they had a rural route address until late in the decade. The change was explained as being necessary for the new 911 system.
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