Just wondering how many remember

[brutus]

The old alpha code to start a phone number back in the day. Ours was PA1-2763. No need for area codes within the city.

[DaveS903]

We lived in small towns when I was a kid. All of the phone numbers were 4 digits. Kinda wish we could go back...

[str8shooter]

We lived in small towns when I was a kid. All of the phone numbers were 4 digits. Kinda wish we could go back...

Same here back in Kenai,AK. Only had to dial the last 4 digits. If you wanted to make a call to Soldotna (sister city) you only had to dial the last 5 digits. To call the rest of the state, only 7 digits. No need for the area code anywhere within the state.

[Razorback01]

I can go a step further, party lines.

[Razrbk89]

I can go a step further, party lines.

I can remember us having a party line and I'm only 28!

[Tbar]

Wa-33306

[Tmag]

Deer Park was Greenwood or GR, ours was GR9-2481!

Moved to Cleveland in 1975 and shared a party line for a few years.

[AntlerCollector]

4 digit phone numbers and party lines! Oh the good old days. Unscrew the microphone off the mouthpiece and listen to your neighbors talk

[str8shooter]

Yep, remember the party lines too. My Great Grandmother was on a party line at Brownwood Lake, and my great aunt was on one at our property in Scroggins.

Oh, and the first phone number I remember having as a kid as EF7-8453

[Preacher Man]

I remember party lines well. My grand mother would complain that so and so down the road was listening to every bodies phone calls

[monsterspike]

i remember when everyone didnt have a cell phone.

[texashunter56]

We started out with a 4 digit then they added FR in front of it then FR+number prefix in the 50 to early 60's. Grandparents had a 4 digit party line in 50's then all the way into the 70's.

[Winman]

I was around before cell phones. I remember getting a linear amplifier for my C B radio so I could call home from fishing down the Mexican beach. I had a base station with a tall antenna at the house.

[jerp]

I may have forgotten a lot of things but I still remember the phone number I had to memorize before going to kindergarten in 1961. I would say the number as "Webster 63512" (You would dial the first two numbers of the exhange - 9,3 in this case)

[Marion]

AT5 in Mesquite .