The first phone number I can remember was “Charlotte 2 4763M”
An 8 party line, no dial. Pick up the phone and talk to the “operator”.
Rochester, NY (actually Town of Greece, NY)
The Andy Griffith Mayberry Telephone system where you pick up the phone, old timey candlestick type, and say ‘Sarah, would you please get me so-and-so, were not that long ago.
The ‘telephone company’ we had was not a ‘Bell’ system.
They had a building about the size of a 7-11 and there was one operator in it..................