To: Psalm 73
Born in the rotary phone era - we had a four-household party line, and the phone numbers all had two letter prefixes (had to memorize my phone number for kindergarten - OX4-6168, it’s the only one I’ve ever memorized). I never got the letter prefixes, but if you see old movies, it was always Klondike-5555, to make a phone call.
6 posted on
09/03/2023 11:51:09 AM PDT by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
“it was always Klondike-5555, to make a phone call.”
My Nashville phone number - AM-95448 (Amherst).
25 posted on
09/03/2023 12:11:49 PM PDT by
dljordan
To: DallasBiff
"I never got the letter prefixes"
Memory aid
763-xxx > PO 3-xxxx > POPULAR 3-xxxx
To: DallasBiff
“it was always Klondike-5555”
Klondike 5-5555. The exchange needs 3 numbers.
To: DallasBiff
The letter prefixes identified the exchange the phone was on.Phones in the area of the Klondike exchange would have been identified by the “KL” preceding the number As a kid ours was Lattimer or LT.
105 posted on
09/03/2023 2:52:48 PM PDT by
TalBlack
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