Remember then? What was yours?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Mine was AXminster.

[MiHale]

1. KE9-7322...

Hammered into the brain before we started going to school.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. 🤗

[Meadowoak]

2. LIncoln 2-5936

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. ☺️

[if..fish..had..wings]

21. LIncoln 7-8286

Also
DIamond 1-2827

[bucolic_frolic]

3. ID's could be traced from old phone numbers

phone number to location back then to name to census to family members.

[Layzeebeaver]

5. if they find me I'll buy them a cookie.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. 😬

[Layzeebeaver]

4. Federal 5 - 3338

when the 313 was all there was in south east Michigan...

the good ol'days (in my dreams only...)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. 😁

[cachukis]

10. DAvenport 4-4544

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. 🤗

[Wicked Blue]

11. TEmple 9-1690

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 😃

[quaint]

12. Oxbow 69

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. ☺️

[quaint]

16. For real !

plus more digits still in use with the OX translated to numerics.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. 😃

[50 Shades Of Blue]

18. WHitehall.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. 🤗

[hunter]

20. When I was in elementary school we had five digit phone numbers and party lines.

All our neighbors and schoolmates had phone numbers that started with "5" so a kid only had to remember four digits. We didn't have to concern ourselves with the prefix. Making an expensive long distance call wasn't something children were allowed to do.

About the time I started middle school our city's telephone exchange was modernized and we had to dial all seven numbers. Me and my siblings memorized the prefixes as numbers. We considered the named prefixes something odd only our grandmother's used.

Unlike our grandmothers, our grandfathers would never call just to chat. They only called when something horrible had happened -- relatives getting killed in automobile crashes, that sort of thing.

Our great grandmothers simply did not allow children to touch a telephone. I suppose they considered telephones a tool of the devil. You never knew if Satan himself might be calling.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. 😈

[aggiesal]

22. WEstmore 3-0832, NW Indiana

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. 🤗

[Jerryatric]

54. Mine was WIlson 9-1375, also in NW Indiana.

[Emile]

23. Hickory six 2424.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. 😃

[Beausoleil]

24. BR-549

No seriously, ours was BRoadway (27). I don't remember the exact number.

I do remember a friend's number from high school in the 70s; he still lives in the same house with the same number.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. ☺️

[Beausoleil]

50. For those that don't get the joke

[BOSSHOG]

25. BA9 3729 BALDWIN

Philadelphia early 60s. Parents, grandparents forced me to remember. Never forgot.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. 🤗

[tblue37]

26. 654-4523.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. 😬

[nocoincidences]

27. My phone numberas a child

was 26321. There was no prefix. I lived in a small town growing up.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. 🤗

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. ATlantic4-8882

[mobeau69]

30. Ours was ATlas4-6609

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. 🤗

[BigMin28]

29. AT5-7191

nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. 😃

[Jilly_in_VA]

31. I'm so old

that we had 5 digit numbers and party lines. Mine was 6-2340 and we had a really obnoxious party-liner who used to get on and claim she had an "emergency" if she heard one of us kids on the line. One time I listened in on her and it was just her gabbing to a friend. I told my mom and she said the next time hand it to her and she would listen and then report her. We did and she did and that was the end of her.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. 😁

[Midnight Writer]

32. I'll never tell. I still use it for passwords, pins, and combination locks.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

44. 🤫

[wendyb-NC]

41. HObart 3-7259

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. 😃

[GreenWave]

46. TWinbrook + ???

I never called myself, so I don't remember.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

47. 😁

[Hela]

48. The exchange was PI8 - PI for Pilgrim!

My parents had the same number from 1957 until my mom gave it up in 2017.

Here's the phone exchange list for Chicago: http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/Chicago%20Telephone%20Exchange%20Names%20and%20History.pdf

Anybody from Chicago remember "Hudson three - two seven hundreeeeeeeed." ???
(Cleaning commercial that ran during Saturday morning cartoons.)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. 🤗

[Srkdqltr]

51. Texas TE 4-3023

[Floyd R. Turbo]

52. 😃

[Cartoonist]

53. HOpkins 9

There was a commercial with the musical number Hudson 3-2-7 Hundred

[Floyd R. Turbo]

61. 🤗

[DinahMoeHum]

55. TEnnyson 4. . .

. . .the rest is nobody's business.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

62. 😁

[k55f5r]

56. When we moved to the farm, it was 1960.

Our telephone was oak, with a speaker on a cord and the microphone was attached to the oak cabinet.
TW(ining)2-2541 and a 10 person party line. Our nosey neighbor, Mrs. Goldman, knew every detail of everyone's life that shared that party line. Finally got our own line in 1963.
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[Floyd R. Turbo]

63. ☺️

[rsdsharp]

57. Capital

228.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

64. 😃

[Stuart G]

58. I still have a dial phone and use it every day to call people.. And it works like it always worked........AND....

........WAS MADE IN THE U.S.A.!!!

Yes, it still rings, and rings loud if I set it loud..............I wonder if anyone else has a dial phone?????

Am I the only one?..............i LIKE OLD THINGS.........(BECAUSE I AM OLD)...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

65. ☺️

[Niagara]

59. 665, the neighbor of the beast.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

66. 😈

[Aristus]

60. I grew up on Army bases in the 1970's.

We didn't have the word-prefix for our phone numbers. But since the entire post could have phone service under one numeric prefix, we usually only had to dial the last number of the prefix, and then the final four digits.

For example, my family's old phone number was 624-6677. We just dialed 4-6677.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

67. 🤗

[malthaussen]

68. TU-2 5026

And I lived in "Pittsburgh 27 PA." "TU" was also called "TUxedo," as opposed to the "TU" I had later which was called "TUrner."

At least, that's the first one I remember. Had several others over the years.

-- Mal

[Floyd R. Turbo]

69. ☺️