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13. I remember well - Mo - for Montrose in Walpole Mass..TR - Trinity in Framingham -

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 11:54 AM

Mar 2018

OL - for Olympia (could be Olympic, too) Natick,, Mass - but then, I also retired from AT&T after 30 years..New England Tel is my alma mater - I was a senior in HS..worked PT until graduation, then went FT as a cord board operator and then worked in dial bureau assigning tel. numbers..(of course I had an easy number to remember 2525)...

I saw rotary change to Touchtone..hard wire change to modular...don't even get me started on Cellphones....is tough to get old, but I always remember numbers and names...

This was a great exercise for recall.....tks

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Remember when?: Telephone numbers had letter prefixes. [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 OP

Mine was PIoneer fierywoman Mar 2018 #1

Cool! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #4

Mine was, too Siwsan Mar 2018 #39

You have the right to take phone # with you now. irisblue Mar 2018 #50

Too many John Wayne movies ashling Mar 2018 #88

Yes. Where I lived we had MAyfair, SUnset and PRospect. Arkansas Granny Mar 2018 #2

Eight! Wow! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #6

My parents had a semi-private line until the phone company broke up in the 80s. FSogol Mar 2018 #9

Every body I knew was on a party line - except our family csziggy Mar 2018 #66

CHerry Borchkins Mar 2018 #3

Nice! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #7

i still remember mine.. samnsara Mar 2018 #5

Sure do! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #8

Looks like some kind of medieval torture device to me.... ExciteBike66 Mar 2018 #10

Overton braddy Mar 2018 #11

We were just getting away from that practice when I arrived on the planet. Iggo Mar 2018 #12

I remember well - Mo - for Montrose in Walpole Mass..TR - Trinity in Framingham - asiliveandbreathe Mar 2018 #13

i was a full board operator as well... omg i hated it when someone from Georgia called... samnsara Mar 2018 #58

Murray Hill was a prefix in NY City Basic LA Mar 2018 #14

I had a Murray Hill prefix whenI lived inNYC! CTyankee Mar 2018 #69

CApital rsdsharp Mar 2018 #15

We had MElrose and OXford Glorfindel Mar 2018 #16

Mine was TEnnyson. DinahMoeHum Mar 2018 #17

We had WHitehall and 5 numbers, but my grandma had a partyline procon Mar 2018 #18

Another WHitehall here! 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2018 #54

I remember when we were assigned one. Yonnie3 Mar 2018 #19

Mine was RO 4 22xx mitch96 Mar 2018 #20

PHL (Philmore) 5698 Runningdawg Mar 2018 #21

The first phone number I remember was 3 digits. KatyaR Mar 2018 #22

Our ring was one long and two short. Yonnie3 Mar 2018 #24

MAin 5-6521! elleng Mar 2018 #23

At my house it was TAlbot. Eugene Mar 2018 #25

Mine was NEptune brucefan Mar 2018 #26

GLadstone. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2018 #27

MIdway 6-8571. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2018 #28

KImball in Mt. Pleasant, PA Freedomofspeech Mar 2018 #29

Ours was CR-9-####J. CR was for Crystal. We had a Crystal Lake in our area. Fla Dem Mar 2018 #30

... PoliticAverse Mar 2018 #31

My childhood phone number Ohiogal Mar 2018 #32

Ha, you just beat me to that! Lindsay Mar 2018 #34

Cleveland Indians fans of a certain age Lindsay Mar 2018 #33

Yep! Ohiogal Mar 2018 #36

We had GP6971 Mar 2018 #35

DAvenport (32) was our prefix Hokie Mar 2018 #37

i remember in Grmany when one floor of 6 units shared a common phone gopiscrap Mar 2018 #38

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Mine was TRafalgar Golden Raisin Mar 2018 #41

CEntral 2-5515. Westchester Co, NY ... SaveOurDemocracy Mar 2018 #42

Pennsylvania 6-5000 lapucelle Mar 2018 #43

OLiver mia Mar 2018 #44

Jackson, Mississippi FLeetwood Grammy23 Mar 2018 #45

772, please cyclonefence Mar 2018 #46

Beechwood 4-5789 was a great song by The Marvelettes red dog 1 Mar 2018 #47

Sure, as a kid my home phone was NIagra marked50 Mar 2018 #48

evolution yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2018 #49

Hemlock mainstreetonce Mar 2018 #51

I had HEmlock. Out in the country in KY yellowdogintexas Mar 2018 #83

NJ mainstreetonce Mar 2018 #84

Underhill, Wabash, Jefferson, Woodland... TheDebbieDee Mar 2018 #52

Before my time, but the local ones here were UNiversity (86) and TUxedo (88) The Genealogist Mar 2018 #53

GLendale. Grand Rapids MI, 1949-1959. Then EMpire in The San Fernando Valley around 1960.. nt Binkie The Clown Mar 2018 #55

I remember my grandparents had one (we didn't actually call it, but they still used it). LisaM Mar 2018 #56

MIdway 8 - 5737 TygrBright Mar 2018 #57

WElls.. lisa58 Mar 2018 #59

FRontier 7- hay rick Mar 2018 #60

CRestwood was ours. MuseRider Mar 2018 #61

Rochester NY suburbs 3catwoman3 Mar 2018 #62

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Ours was WHitehall....but, I don't remember the numbers.. Tikki Mar 2018 #64

Liberty 2-1337 was the number I memorized for kindergarten. lkinwi Mar 2018 #65

Originally 642 back in the '50s- under a thousand phone in town (Ever.They didn't reuse numbers). mpcamb Mar 2018 #67

I don't remember what it was , but we had an operator, Sally, until 1960. sinkingfeeling Mar 2018 #68

Jackson lillypaddle Mar 2018 #70

VOlunteer-2-5406 annabanana Mar 2018 #71

TRinidad... Ohiya Mar 2018 #72

Nope :-) crazycatlady Mar 2018 #73

TUxedoGrosse Pointe, MI bif Mar 2018 #74

Saratoga ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #75

PArkway - with party line! KT2000 Mar 2018 #76

Does BR-549 count? ramblin_dave Mar 2018 #77

It does jmowreader Mar 2018 #86

GReenwood4 Soxfan58 Mar 2018 #78

FUlton-1-2492 in New Jersey Number9Dream Mar 2018 #79

Indiana: Chipper Chat Mar 2018 #80

North Dakota ploppy Mar 2018 #81

HEmlock. Another town in our county was INgersol. yellowdogintexas Mar 2018 #82

Minnesota: TRiangle 9-5583. mac56 Mar 2018 #85

Mine was JU, stood for Juno, I think. Ticonderoga, NY. Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 #87

I was born in Henrietta Tx ashling Mar 2018 #89