Can you remember you childhood phone number?

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:36 am

Out of the blue today my old phone number popped into my head. My family had the number from 1975-1989.

636-6025

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:38 am

Yup...took a couple of seconds..but remembered it.

For some reason, could always remember my junior high school locker number and combo...yet none of my others..like through high school.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:39 am

Ken's childhood number was two small smoke signals and one big one.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:40 am

Grrr, nope. lol

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:40 am

Hell no .....we had ours shut off and turned back on so many times there is no way I could remember all of them

Debbie · Post by **Debbie** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:14 am

My mother has had the same number since they purchased the house when I was 3 years old. She never changed it.

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:33 am

yep
684-7658
Was that when I was born and was that until I sold the house at age 29.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:11 am

Cant remember my current home phone. I have it on speeddial at work.

triniwasp · Post by **triniwasp** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:45 am

833-3836

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:10 pm

yup...folks still have the same house after 27 years

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:26 pm

Nope, lived to many places, changed too many times.

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:55 pm

Kingswood 3505 Open wire lines on poles.
Ludlow ????
Amherst 8-3623
Tuxedo 5 - 0507

Anybody here ever on a non-dial system with operators?

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:59 pm

yes

255 659

waferdog · Post by **waferdog** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:05 pm

The local Remax office took it over after we had it for 15 years, so I see it basically everday on For Sale signs.

chimdogger · Post by **chimdogger** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:08 pm

Nope. My childhood had many phone numbers.

David · Post by **David** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:54 pm

201 992 0744
201 994 2793

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:55 pm

Lefty wrote:Cant remember my current home phone. I have it on speeddial at work.

just remembered 212 721-1493 That was when all of NYC was 212.

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:13 pm

222-4229

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:18 pm

My parents have been living in the same house since '86 but before that we lived in the ghetto on 1st Street. I can't remember the phone number, but I'm almost positive it started with 689. <<shrugs>>

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:35 pm

89811

Ohh those were the days where u remember numbers.

Sarahnn · Post by **Sarahnn** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:52 pm

You really sparked a memory ....... and I thank you for that. I was raised a military dependent so I relocated every 1-5 years till I was in my twenties.

Here's the kicker.....I remember my Grandmother's phone number in Pa. and although she is gone, my Uncle owns the house now and has the same number.

That must be where I considered my home growing up no matter where I lived.

BMED · Post by **BMED** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:41 pm

928-8156...1962-1972

It's like burned in to my brain...one of the 7 cells I have left!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:45 pm

007.373.5963 ...or at least something along those lines.

ace · Post by **ace** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:55 pm

Stepfather still lives in the house I grew up in and the number is still the same since at least 1978.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:56 pm

First one I remember. My aunt worked for the local phone company. It was a town of around 300 people.

Belive it or not, you didn't dial anyone. You picked up the phone and when the operator answered, you ask for so and so.

They then patched you through. Hense the name, "patch cords".

Aunt Cheryl would threaten us for playing on the phone.

We moved after about a year....886 7531

twwabw · Post by **twwabw** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:57 pm

OMG.... this really is a flashback! 716-967-8669. Too funny. I remember when the whole area code thing started- late 60's or early 70's. We were freaked thinking "how would we ever remember ALL those numbers"! Now, the area code's changed for the town, and that exchange doesn't even exist anymore. Man I'm gettin' old

BMED · Post by **BMED** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:19 pm

twwabw wrote:OMG.... this really is a flashback! 716-967-8669. Too funny. I remember when the whole area code thing started- late 60's or early 70's. We were freaked thinking "how would we ever remember ALL those numbers"! Now, the area code's changed for the town, and that exchange doesn't even exist anymore. Man I'm gettin' old

and then we freak because calling two blocks over was a zone-call $$$...sucks!

Thanks to VOIP we can do what we please without being burned at the end of the month.

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:51 pm

Yep. Still my parents number.

Post by **Philip** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:12 pm

Yes.

Note the number of digits on people's childhood phone numbers, and you can guess their age, hehe.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:13 pm

Most Definitely!

minir · Post by **minir** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:18 am

Hi Joint Chiefs of Staff

2 Long & 1 Short

We had the old Ringer/Handcrank phones back then and they where Partylines as well.

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minir

twwabw · Post by **twwabw** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:10 am

Philip wrote:Yes.

Note the number of digits on people's childhood phone numbers, and you can guess their age, hehe.

LOL. Yep. Remember Party Lines? You'd pick up the phone and see if someone else was talking first.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:40 am

876-5....309

//struts away rockin' to Tommy....