Thursday, January 26, 2023

Ever dial the number to your childhood home and see who answers?

 


31 comments:

  1. Jenny… but only for a good time…

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    1. That's no way to talk about your mother!

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    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boaJCrHNRMA

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  2. Ashbrook Middle School in Gastonia, NC had that number and were receiving over 100 calls/day asking for Jenny. They had to change their number.

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  3. The only phone number I remember, other than current number. TU6-2590. This from the 50's!

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  4. My family number in the mid-50's in NJ when there were only 2 area codes: (201) Diamond-3-1201. Anyone want to give it a try? Let me know who answers. If it's Helen you've found the Time portal.

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  5. It was a four-digit number, and there was no dial on the phone.

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    1. Was the operator's name Sara and did you live in Mayberry?

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  6. Years ago, I pulled one of these old-style dial telephones out of a box, and my kids looked at me like I'd discovered a new dinosaur bone or something.

    OK. Maybe I'm the dinosaur. I'll let myself out now.

    azlibertarian

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  7. I still use one. still rings for incoming but I can't dial out on it. System is set up for tones.

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  8. I still remember my grandmas and she's been gone for 20 years. Still remember some address and zip codes but can't remember if I fed the cat and changed her water.

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  9. I had a gig in a tech center in the early '90s where the entry code to get on the floor was 3-1239. Took me 2 months to realize that it sounded so familiar because that was my mother's phone number in the '50s.

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  10. Ours was SE 2-5183, Grandparent's was PR 5-1325, the PR stood for Primrose
    - WDS

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  11. Before dIaling came to lower Cape Cod ours was 439M2. 4 party line...

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  12. I miss just dialing 7 digits for local.

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    1. We just lost that ability last year. Sucks

      MF

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  13. Rhondo H Slade The Masked announcer for vinyl slipcovers WA2-7200 ( UHF ch 48 ) Phila.

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  14. My sister would answer. When mom died she had that number transferred to her cell phone.

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  15. I use my folks number from 1959 as code for locks on some of our pasture gates. (Have brain flatulence when trying to remember PIN or my phone #)

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  16. Arlington, VA - KEnmore 8-5607

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  17. CLifton 4-8276, Baltimore. I still have the phone in the basement of my current home in PA.

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  18. So, how many can remember no zip codes?

    Evil Franklin

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  19. The number for my aunt's house has not changed since I have been alive, nearly 50 years with the exception of an area code change that was out of her control.

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  20. My parents have had the same number since 68.

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  21. Th5-5769. Th was for thornwall. I was 5 or 6. '64 or '65. Saw a video of someone telling their teenage kids to call grandma on a dial phone. It was pretty funny.

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  22. Jennie, she's not here, she's busy.............

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