Phone numbers you remember

[dixiehack]

The phone number from my original hometown, back when they used letters for the first two numbers: JO2-6622

That was before my time, but somehow these commercials lasted until the mid 80s on WGN. I remember being confused by not knowing how to dial a word.

 

[ChrisLong]

Any old-timers in SoCal remember: RIchmond 9-5171. It's the phone number deck Lane continually shouted out to get tickets to Roller Derby and Wrestling at the Olympic Auditorium.

 

[Tighthead]

Growing up, if you called within town you only had to dial 5 numbers. Are whole town had the same 543 prefix, so it was just 3-1234 to dial.

Offhand I remember about 6 friends numbers.

 

[ChrisLong]

A few years ago in the West L.A. area, they ran out of numbers for the 310 area code (which was originally 213). So they added a 424 area code. Back then, you still didn't need to dial the area code if you were calling to the same area. But if you needed to add a phone line in your house for whatever reason, you got the 424 area code. So, if you were calling from downstairs to upstairs, you had to use the area code.

I added a phone line because back then my computer had dial-up internet.

 

[tea and ease]

So you represented the 310 from the 213 to the 424. Rap that!

 

[Slacker]

He never answered my calls, not that I cared.
She never did, either ... and downhill ever since!

 

[Slacker]

My daughter got a cell phone this year and it has a 659 area code. 659 is the overlay for 205 that virtually no one recognizes. 205 was the original statewide area code and still signifies Birmingham (or Tuscaloosa) instantly. My ex and I got 205 numbers a year before we actually moved back to Alabama because we knew we were coming home after I finally graduated from Kennesaw State.

It feels vaguely disturbing that my own flesh and blood is not a 205 girl.

Sad to say, but that's even worse than the never-ending
"Where did you go to high school?" bullship in St. Louis.

Thoughts and prayers to you and your family for your 'Bama ordeal.

Also, are you from Birmingham? ... Where did you go to high school?

 

[da man]

PEnnsylvania 6-5000
BEechwood 4-5789
Not to be confused with 634-5789

 

[dixiehack]

Sad to say, but that's even worse than the never-ending
"Where did you go to high school?" bullship in St. Louis.

Thoughts and prayers to you and your family for your 'Bama ordeal.

Also, are you from Birmingham? ... Where did you go to high school?

It's just such a new thing here. I'd guess well under 5 percent of numbers in this territory are 659. It's not like Atlanta where people no longer bat an eye when they see a 770 or 678 or even 470 pop up.

The high school bit isn't really a big deal here because so many people move here from small-town Alabama and Mississippi. The biggest social sorting mechanism is "Where do you go to church?" And even that has become a much less common conversation starter in the last decade or so.

 

[Twirling Time]

I hardly remember phone numbers anymore. I put it into my cellphone and just hit the screen once.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Butterfield 8

Dialed M for something, can't remember

 

[da man]

Butterfield 8

Dialed M for something, can't remember

Dial N for Nerder.