No, this isn’t the Marvelettes, singing that 1962 hit, but I hope it becomes an earworm for you today. 🎶 🎼 🎧 🎤 These images are courtesy of 1930, when talking on the phone required two hands. Multi-tasking be darned!
Do any of you remember the days of five-digit phone numbers (or less), before the seven-digit system?
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We were Juniper 8-0040. It was nice not to have a party line growing up, my cousins were not so lucky. 🙂
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So cool!
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Oh Jim and Junior, such folksy fellas.
I did learn something today about old phone numbers and phone exchanges. Not useful info anymore, but intriguing.
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I don’t remember our number, but we were on a party line for a number of years. You had to listen to the number of rings to know if the call was for you. Our ring was two short rings.
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That is fascinating. No privacy!
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You called during the week and in the evenings when it was cheap. Our first number was Liberty 66142. It was a party line,which was a bummer when you were 15 or 16. All of my important calls were in a dark wood phone booth at Art’s Drugs.
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What do you mean when it was cheap? If it wasn’t long distance, wasn’t it free?
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Yeah. I was referring to long distance since that was what Junior was using.
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D’oh. Now I get it.
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