I guess ask a kid today what the white pages were, they would say white privilage, and the yellow pages were racist against asians.
We still get one every year. Henderson County. It’s quite small.
When we had a power outage I tried to find the number of the power company and it is not listed.
The irony is that you could quickly find what you wanted without the constant distractions of paid advertisements and endless dross and fluff. I’d wager the phone book is quicker than an internet search.
Same here. I suppose if you don’t have a land line you wouldn’t get one which is where I am now.
And now it’s time for a related joke.
Visiting mom to daughter: “Quick, hand me a phone book!”
Daughter: “Oh, mom. Nobody uses one anymore. Use my cell phone.”
Mom squashes a spider with the cell phone, hands back a broken cell phone.
I get a small local yellow pages about every other year. That’s it.
We used to use the ones in NYC as booster seats.
Recycling bin? Nope.
What ever happened to remembering phone numbers?
Oh...that’s right...our pocket computers, which are cooking or reproductive organs, do the thinking for us.
“Never mind”; said in my best Emily LaTella voice
We don’t even get a phone book anymore.
get one every year, 8”x10”... and i do use it on occasion
Our community still hands them out.
Course, they’re the thinnest things I’ve ever seen.
As a business owner in the early 80’s, I hated the Yellow Pages… they had you and they knew itl
I miss the Yellow Pages, because it was easier to find types of businesses in the area. “Find X near me” on the internet doesn’t always give me everything. If I need the number of a particular business, though, the internet is better.
I used to advertise in about 8 or 9 phone books, 2 big Yellow Pages and a lot of smaller more localized books.
little old ladies need them to see over the steering wheels of course
My grandfather had phone number 7 in Verdi, NV, a suburb of Reno. I’m betting their phone book was an index card in those days.
I can actually remember reading the Chicago phone book enthusiastically as a child. I was fascinated by so many names and the way they changed in one or two letters, then in bigger ways. Also by the way some names went on for pages and others were just a few lines.
Wonderful way to stay out of trouble.
I can’t remember my phone number today without looking at my cellphone, but I’ll always remember the phone number of my youth.
Get Smart - Operator - Jim Croce
https://youtu.be/nu1y1VWjM54