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Remember "children's numbers" so houses could have one phone that was flat rate to your own and immediately adjoining towns, two units for other local towns and one phone that was "message rate" that a larger area that was one message unit for as long as you talked?
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Originally Posted by nightcrawler
I am so old I remember when telephone numbers started with names, the first 2 letters
I think it was called exchange prefix? I know it was called something.
here in NYC, it had changed to all numbers some time in the 60's I believe, since we moved to Staten Island in 66, and the telephone number was the 3 numbers....
NYC kept letters in the directory until 1977 but was not giving out new lettered phone numbers after the late 60's. One of my friends moved to Armonk in 1968 or 1969 and he got ARmonk 3-3367 and 58 as the children's number.
Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSN s and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, MD , the area number has been assigned based on the ZIP code of the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant's mailing address may not be the same as the place of residence.
Back in the day before airline takeoff kids were invited into the pilots cockpit shown the layout and given a little plastic captains wings to wear on their shirt.
It's happening today too, if you ask nicely. No gifts, though.
I remember when there was no "Press 1 for English - Press 2 for Spanish" on telephones.
Yeah I remember when you didn't have to know a foreign language in order to get a job in the United States of America - unless you were in the State department or the military.
i remember when kids yearned to be an astronaut, scientist, soldier or policeman and not a youtube personality.
I can remember when being an astronaut was a big thing. They even had a camp where you could pretend to be an astronaut, right down to wearing a diaper (fecal containment unit, I think it was called).
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And it's amazing how many phone calls are coming from the 202 area code these days.
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