All the landline phones in the 1980s and 1990s would take in just about everybody. Andy Griffith tv ads said “I’m sticking with ol’ reliable.”
Hard to believe that everyone used to be in the phone book with full name and full street address, and of course the phone number, you could even call information and have the operator give all that to you.
We used to be a homogeneous, open, trusting nation.