Do you guys remember rotary telephones?

Tiddler said:
I remember my first number as well. It was 442 and you couldn't dial at all. You waited for an operator to connect you. I'd ask for 442 to tell my Mom where I was headed after school and the operator was likely to say, "If you're looking for your mother, she isn't home she's playing bridge at the Hardin's let me connect you there."
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Almost sounds like when I first moved to Myrtle Beach,if you dialed information you could hear the operator looking through the phone book for the number! LOL
 
Nostroke said:
I didnt think there were area codes til the 60's but im seeing 1951 on Wikipedia.

I was born in 48 and didnt make a LD call til i was at least 12- Didnt you have to get a long distance 'operator' and tell her the town and phone # ? (no area code) or did the area code exist but you couldnt dial it? Im confused. or maybe 914 where i lived didnt come around til then.
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The way that I remember it, area codes were introduced at the same time as the rotary phone so you could direct dial anywhere in the 48 states without going through an operator.

Before that.. you started with your local operator, you told her what city/state you wanted to call, that same operator would then connect you to the regional LD operator... to whom you gave the name prefix and the 4-digit number, who then connected you to your party.

I was born in '49.
 
I not only remember rotary phones, I remember phones without even rotary dials. We'd pick it up and the operator (my buddy Roy's Aunt Laura) would pickup and say "Number please." Then we either tell her the number (usually 3 digits) if we remembered it or just tell her the name and she'd connect us and the phone would ring. If it was out of town you told her the town/city.
Steve. <== Grew up in a small town that is a bedroom community of Boston now.
 
RRfireblade said:
Damn , you some old SOBS.


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And I mean that in the best possibly way.
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Yeah but I've come to realize that getting old beats the hell out of the alternative! Just wish I'd have taken better care of this old body so I wouldn't be in so much pain these days! lol
 
Rotary phones and party lines, where other folks got to listen in on your phone calls.
 
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