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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Ah yes...the old way of communicating. I recall having to dial a number to get the exact time. Another number for weather. And yet another number to check on school closings due to snow. We were kicking it when we got a new Slimline Touchtone! Sheesh....we have come a long way.

Not to forget other "Dial-A-" services: Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Joke, Dial-A-Poem, etc. Apart from the dial phones themselves, what I miss are the old phone numbers where the first two characters were letters, usually the first two letters of a location; growing up in San Francisco, you could tell where a number was generally located in the city by the two letter designation: MA=Market (Downtown SF), PO=Portrero (Portrero District), and so on. There were even some designations for specific services: if you wanted to call a Yellow Cab (a bit of a luxury in the 1950s), the number was TU5-1234, with the TU standing for "Tuxedo". Somehow, area codes just don't have the same 'human feel' as those old neighborhood letter codes...




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