[MagUSNRET]

I am also so old, that I remember when our phone mumber was only 4 numbers Then they came out with those new fangled prefixes like “Atlantic 1 or Prospect 6....then the number..Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the good ole days ;-)

[Publius]

Allan Sherman: "The Let's All Call Up AT&T and Protest to the President March"

[Carriage Hill]

I remember one of ours from 1957, in Arl Hts, IL:

Clearbrook 9-0294

[Carriage Hill]

I remember “party lines”, cranking the crank, and telling the operator the party’s name, number & address, back in the early 50s in WVa. She’d call back when she made the connection, after the previous users were finished.