[Red Badger]

Where I used to live, to dial a local number all you had to do was dial 4 digits...................

[MayflowerMadam]

“Where I used to live, to dial a local number all you had to do was dial 4 digits”

We were 4228. Then I remember when they added the three-digit exchange digits.

[Retrofitted]

I have glass photo negatives of an ad for my dad's diner from way back. The phone number was 527. So strange to think of nowadays!

Do you by any chance remember when zip codes became a thing? With Mr. ZIP on everything to remind us to use that new-fangled zip code on every piece of mail? lol

[READINABLUESTATE]

If I had to call home the number was 2791.
...60 years ago.

[Delta 21]

6374 until about 1973 or so. Kansas still had party lines out in the country.

[SaxxonWoods]

Found an old business card recently. The phone numbers had no area codes.

[lefty-lie-spy]

The old radio shows - Dragnet for example - have beautiful examples of what it was like to make a long distance person-to-person call through multiple exchanges circa 1949. It was a really advanced system back then and the long distance to central office relays could days minutes or hours to complete the call.

[PLMerite]

“Where I used to live, to dial a local number all you had to do was dial 4 digits...”

Somewhere I have a business card that my father was given, in the DC suburbs, which had six digits (xx-xxxx).

And I’m old enough to remember when area code 301 covered the entire state of Maryland. Now they’re up to six, I think.

[Karoo]

Same