It was satisfying to slam the phone down. Our number was Redfield 4–3674. Probably still exists. We still had party lines although ours wasn’t that I can remember

I could dial my friends' numbers in the dark, on a rotary dial - which I often did when I would sneak downstairs to call them after lights-out.

On the night I met my future wife, she told me her number and I didn't write it down. No need to. How could I forget the phone number of such a woman? She thought she'd never hear from me, but of course I called the very next day.

And today? I don't even know the numbers of my daughter or any of my close friends, though I contacted them frequently.

I think we were on a party line for a short period when I was very young. I do have some memory of my Mom picking up the phone to use and then hanging up saying " Someone's using it".

town that the phone switching office was in...
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Or encourage others to do so. Many elderly people use it as passcodes because they know they CAN remember it. Scammers put up the Do you remember posts on Facebook, then collect the replies that foolishly added the number. Don’t mean to sound like a scold, but, this scam happens every day.

I'm surprised that I still remember the phone number.

I hope everyone who posted their number goes back and edits it out of their post.

…all these little “memory tests” and “games” that were going around. I noticed fairly quickly that all of them revolved around things people were encouraged to use as passwords and backup questions. For entities like banks and credit cards, and stuff like that.

I finally said to whoever might be paying attention that “someone” was collecting an awful lot of personal data — and I never participated in those “games” again.

I actually do use some of the numbers for short numerical passwords on my iPad. For awhile it drove me crazy by asking me to change the 4-digit passcode repeatedly at short intervals. I finally settled on street numbers of childhood addresses and kept changing them off until it settled down.

That is something I would not even think of using as a password. It is much too obvious.

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I think his number was "Ring one, ring three". You just picked up the phone, cranked it once for the operator, and asked for Fred. Even if Fred wasn't home, the operator would know where he was, and put you through.

Our numbers were four digits, all numbers. I can't remember our telephone number, but I do remember my grandmother's number (she lived a few blocks away). When we moved away from Auburn in 1955, operators still did the dialing. I think that area got rotary dialing in about 1956.

Ironically, in about 1967 when I was a sophomore at Auburn University, I got the very first touch-tone telephone to be installed anywhere in the city of Auburn. It was my first apartment and the first telephone of my very own.

But I always remembered my grandmother's 4-digit phone number. So much so that it is the core of many a password, security number, gate code, etc., of mine, and of my brothers and sisters.

from back then. But I can't remember to take my pills nor what I was supposed to get when I went downstairs a few minutes ago.

4-3769. My grandmother’s was Lincoln 9-3363.

It's good to keep these things in the family.

BA (Baldwin) 9-3729. North Phillie. I was 10ish. My parents insisted I memorize it. They done a good job. About 100% of the time, if My Dad told me to do something I did it.

dial 3 numbers, get connected to your friend.

small town hand cranked phone ring tone from long ago,

hed pick up the phone transmitter and say mable can you call doc smith please ? simple ? no?

Was TOpaz7-5309.

the ruins of Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac's Mill Valley cabin.

Oh, Gary Snyder's prefix would have been DUnlap 8 if he had a telephone.

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Parris Island SC ‘59-‘63

The Marines kept it simple, man!

it was 7-3081 in Salina, Kansas in 1962. memorized it as a kid and it's never gone away. strange what things we retain........

I sometimes wonder who has it now.

Frontier 64163. We had a party line until the late 60’s, as we had Western Electronic instead of AT&T.

My mom and dad have had the same number since I was 10 years old.

I am now 70.

My mother moved 1 year ago and got a new number.

I still remember the old number and have memorized the new number.

Like I dialed my mom from the payphone at school, just a minute ago.
After we moved to an area of the city with a different exchange, I temember that one too.
And my parents moved out of that house in '94!
All the exchanges, until the late 70s, started with 7-2. The word was Saratoga.
Not sure why I still recall a number I haven't used since 1970, but I do.

I vaguely remember that we had an operator, but by the time I was old enough to use the phone she was gone.

We had all these cool words instead of numbers as prefixes. If we were dialing within the zone for that prefix, we only had to dial the last 4 digits. (it was a very small town).

That number no longer exists, since The Phone Company rearranged the whole county and we all got new phone numbers with different prefixes, back when the letter prefixes changed to numbers . This was around the time we got area codes

Who picked put those names anyway? Literally no one remembers who Davenport was, except that he was the captain of a ship (no one remembers what ship.)

But I do remember as an adult, in the late seventies-early eighties living in a town small enough that for a local call you only dialied 5 numbers.

Oh, wait. That was the WLS touch tone, at least according to Little Tommy Edwards.