Do you remember your telephone no. when you were a kid?

Smitty500mag

My parents drilled the phone number into my head in case I got lost back when I was about 3 years old living in Knoxville, TN around 1952 or '53. I still remember it to this day. It was 33537.

Then in the late 50s a 5 was added to the number making it 5-33537. And then sometime in the early 60s they added a 25. So it was 525-33537.

Oh well, I never got lost or kidnapped...yet, but in case I do I still remember my phone number.

I called mom earlier today and asked her if she remembers what our old phone number was? She's 89 and didn't have to pause for a second to tell me the number. She's still sharp as a tack.

He Dog

9923, which became GI(bson) 9923. Forgemonkey on the other hand remembers cranking up Mildred on the switchboard and asking for Bill at the garage.

bustedknee

Remember the number?

I don't remember the phone...cause we didn't have one.

Or a TV. We had an old car but it was usually broke down. And 2 wood stoves that I had to feed.


Ahhh! Those were the days.

Its just the TWO of us now...we have 3 phones, 3 TV's, 3 Bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 vehicles and 3 grand children on the other side of the continent.
Thanks for stirring those deep thoughts. Hahahahahaha

Idahobound

I remember it. My parents still have it and use it

montanajoe

Mission 7-3574

BobJudy

Yup, It was Cedar3-7201. Still remember a few childhood friends numbers also. We thought it was a big deal when we got a semi-private line in the early 60s that only had 2 other parties on it. Show a kid today one of those old bakelite rotary phones and they don't know how to make it work. Bob

Toolman286

DE4-2523

35 Whelen

Sure do, because I'm still using it.

Ditch-Runner

we were one of the first to get a phone in our small section of the city block ( apartment project basically ) amazing considering its about all we had as a luxury ( other than a used TV ) but mom wanted it to stay in contact with our family .
none of us kids were allowed to use it touch it or answer it . ( you would have thought it was the hot line to the president to launch the nukes )
mom was scared some long distance charges would come into play if the kids had use of it . our neighbors came over to call family or check on sick friends still down south ( Tennessee/Kentucky ) started on a party line then finely got a private line. mom and dad both passed on years ago but one of my sisters still keeps the old phone live same number for 60+ years
oh ya at first only had to use the last four numbers to call

nunn

TAylor 4-0837.

grdad45

Home, 328041
Dad's office, 322236

sharpshooter039

BR945

spasmcreek

live in my grandads house and still have the old crank wall phone (like NEW) that was on the dining room wall....remember as a kid calling and asking the operator for Bob or gave her a 2 digit number in our small town.. and remember walking by the phone office when i was a small kid and seeing the gal at the switchboard plugging in the wires to route calls......grandads rural party line was 24F31...and older lady since gone who worked for an auction house found me a 1943 phone book to go with this phone..... i remember the two big gray dry cell batteries that sat on the basement sill board below where the phone was hung

TRAP55

Elmwood 9-2177 party line. By the time I made the mile long trek from the end of the valley back home, my Mom knew every detail of what I did before I got home.

US Military Guy

Party line

712-589-3384

John Stimson

My parents phone 448
My grandparents phone 517
The doctors office 10
The doctors home phone 299
The ambulance 6
A good friend's home 1147-L a party line.

Gossip was especially efficient in our town with the operators listening in and sharing tidbits with others.

select-fire

no

mjrfd99

I can remember it and 8 others from the old gang on our block in the early 60's
Can't remember what I cooked last night

Quick&Dead

After reading the posts ............ I forgot what the question was :?:

hillbille

just talking about this few months back, ran into a girl I grew up with who lived beside us. talking with her the phone number and our address just popped in my head, she was just one of the boys growing up, but she is a long way from a boy now

NeoBlackdog

382-7745 Central Oregon in the mid '60's.
I wonder who has it now?

mmppres

yes i due 5212652 never needed now area code

danielgage

yes my mom still uses it

pulsarnc

Started out as RE4-7096 till the changed to all numerics then 734-7096 from the late 60s until about 1995 when it changed again .

babun

VA 8 0865

Our number from jump street till 1973.

Aztngundoc22

OK :

Yes : My parents still have it : 745-2500 : One of the few people I know still with a 'home-phone' ???

Thanks !!!

gearheaddad

MErcury9-3257
(639)
It was on digit off from the local grade school principal (2357)and the Savings and Loan in town(3256)! We had a little fun with that as kids when a wrong number came in!!
I also still remember my Grandparents, Aunts, Best friends, cousins, etc!
I still have a land line for some unknown reason. Same number I've had for over 40 years.

Sam06

Yep and I remember carrying a dime to use a payphone.

697-5370

Didn't you have to get your phone from the Telephone Company back then and they would confiscate any other phone in the house?

Don McManus

HU9-1697, IIRC.

That may have been the grandparents, however, or part of a radio jingle for a local business.

It was 50+ years ago, for God's sake. I don't even remember my own phone number now at times.

Chief Shaway

Yes I do.
When my parents moved after I left home, the town police office took it over.

SW0320

Yes, still remember mine it started with the letters JE. My brother still has the number.

RugerNiner

AMhurst 7-9308
but I can't remember my cell number without looking it up.

jimdeere

PARK6-3593?-changed to 726-3593 around 1961. Mom had the same number until 2013 when she passed and we sold the house.

SW0320

Yes, it started with JE, my older brother still has the number.

dunbarboyz

ORlando 4-1422 I was five years old.

mnrivrat48

2 shorts and a long Didn't anyone else have a crank phone ?

bearman49709

The first phone we had you picked up the earpiece off the cradle, cranked the handle then asked if it was my cousin Evelyn or her sister Elinor working that day then told her who you wanted to talk to or the phone number if it wasn't local.
Sometime in the early 1960's we got one of them fancy black dial phones with a number 636-2940 and my cousins lost their jobs as operators because you could dial the number yourself.
My parents kept that number until dad died in 2011, mom was in a nursing home so there was no need for a phone and we sold their house in 2012 5 or 6 months after mom died.

gruntled2

mnrivrat48 wrote:

2 shorts and a long Didn't anyone else have a crank phone ?

I have my grandparents crank phone hanging in the entrance to my house. They had a general store & all their customers would answer the phone if their ring came in when they were in the store.