Do you remember your telephone no. when you were a kid?
My parents drilled the phone number into my head in case I got lost back when I was about 3 years old living in Knoxville, TN around 1952 or '53. I still remember it to this day. It was 33537.
Then in the late 50s a 5 was added to the number making it 5-33537. And then sometime in the early 60s they added a 25. So it was 525-33537.
Oh well, I never got lost or kidnapped...yet, but in case I do I still remember my phone number.
I called mom earlier today and asked her if she remembers what our old phone number was? She's 89 and didn't have to pause for a second to tell me the number. She's still sharp as a tack.
Then in the late 50s a 5 was added to the number making it 5-33537. And then sometime in the early 60s they added a 25. So it was 525-33537.
Oh well, I never got lost or kidnapped...yet, but in case I do I still remember my phone number.
I called mom earlier today and asked her if she remembers what our old phone number was? She's 89 and didn't have to pause for a second to tell me the number. She's still sharp as a tack.
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AMhurst 7-9308
but I can't remember my cell number without looking it up.0 -
PARK6-3593?-changed to 726-3593 around 1961. Mom had the same number until 2013 when she passed and we sold the house. 0 -
Yes, it started with JE, my older brother still has the number. 0 -
Yep, It is still my Mom's phone number, she has not given up her home phone yet. Heck, I still remember by grandparents phone number 969 4728 and they have been gone for nearly thirty years 0 -
ORlando 4-1422 I was five years old. 0 -
2 shorts and a long Didn't anyone else have a crank phone ? 0 -
The first phone we had you picked up the earpiece off the cradle, cranked the handle then asked if it was my cousin Evelyn or her sister Elinor working that day then told her who you wanted to talk to or the phone number if it wasn't local.
Sometime in the early 1960's we got one of them fancy black dial phones with a number 636-2940 and my cousins lost their jobs as operators because you could dial the number yourself.
My parents kept that number until dad died in 2011, mom was in a nursing home so there was no need for a phone and we sold their house in 2012 5 or 6 months after mom died.0 -
mnrivrat48 wrote:2 shorts and a long Didn't anyone else have a crank phone ?
I have my grandparents crank phone hanging in the entrance to my house. They had a general store & all their customers would answer the phone if their ring came in when they were in the store.0
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