Does anyone else remember the primary use of a telephone book? As a booster seat so the youngest kids could reach the table at dinner time? Oh, yeah, you could look up the telephone number of everyone in town alphabetically and then call them on your rotary dial land line as well.
I used to look up how many people had my last name. When we first moved to that county, there were about 3. Twenty years later, there were at least 100. I did that with all my friends’ names too. Yeah, I’m strange like that.
My family in New York was reasonably large, with about 300 direct progeny showing up for our last gathering at the farm on Staten Island. When I moved to Charleston, SC, I found that a cousin of my grandfather had immigrated here from Germany in 1861, just before the Civil War. Discovered that after finding my last name in the directory before I had phone service here.
Russell Bedford over 6 years ago
Does anyone else remember the primary use of a telephone book? As a booster seat so the youngest kids could reach the table at dinner time? Oh, yeah, you could look up the telephone number of everyone in town alphabetically and then call them on your rotary dial land line as well.
dlkrueger33 over 6 years ago
I used to look up how many people had my last name. When we first moved to that county, there were about 3. Twenty years later, there were at least 100. I did that with all my friends’ names too. Yeah, I’m strange like that.
Alberta Oil over 6 years ago
I don’t think they even print a phone book anymore, do they? We do get the Yellow Pages though..
Martin 78 over 6 years ago
My family in New York was reasonably large, with about 300 direct progeny showing up for our last gathering at the farm on Staten Island. When I moved to Charleston, SC, I found that a cousin of my grandfather had immigrated here from Germany in 1861, just before the Civil War. Discovered that after finding my last name in the directory before I had phone service here.