Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 01, 2014

I’m 30 years old and I don’t remember any phone numbers of [local] businesses that are still existent since then.

PEnnsylvania 6-5000 still works, they say.

867-5309

I refused to put my mother’s number on speed dial—wanted to make sure I memorized it.

I used the name of a family-owned and operated Italian Restaurant in my hometown of Panama City, Florida. They’ve been in business for many years. And the food is fabulous, the service great and the folks are very friendly! It is one of three restaurants we always eat at when we are back home for a visit. If you are in the area, Pana Roma is in the Stanford Shopping Center on 23rd Street.

Get real— I can’t even remember my own phone number, or at least it takes half an hour. There is just too much junk stored in my brain. The phone number is there, but the folder it’s in is lost under the ones that contain the entire script of “Fiddler on the Roof” and the words to " Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini". Brains need to come with a delete button.

DLee4144 Yes! I have a brain full of stuff I want to forget, and there are things I try to remember and can’t! Then there are things that I hear, and they become bits added to this encyclopedia of information because I’m interested in the subject (for example mid century art pottery). sigh

My parents got their phone number in July 1955 and kept it until dad passed in July 2009. At first it was a party line, then they dropped the “KEystone” prefix for the simpler “53”, then they added area codes, but I still remember it.

Im 61, I still remember My home number, Grandma’s number and Aunt Dee’s number . I was 9 years old back then

How about God’s phone number (for us Catholic Pluggers of a certain age):Etcum Spiri 2-2-0!

My spouse relied on my memory for phone numbers until the other day when he asked the number for the local pharmacy and The one I gave him turned out to be the police station! Oops. The reason I remember that one is because it was on a sticker on our phone, back before 9-1-1.

GL4-2695 @ 9034 NE 8th street, Bellevue WA. From the mid sixties when in grade school we had to memorize our phone# and address. 50 years ago.

Our favorite here in the southern suburbs of Mpls/St Paul is “Ole Piper Family Restaurant & Sports Bar”. They have been around over thirty years, still owned by the same family, and still have the same phone number. Although they will deliver anything on the menu, our most frequent choice is pizza, and it is just as good today as it was when we first ate it over 30 years ago!.interesting side note: When we built a new home almost 20 years ago in a Rosemount, Minnesota neighborhood, the first call for pizza delivery to our new home was met with “sorry, we don’t deliver that far away”..When my wife told them who we were, the immediate response was, “Well, we just expanded our delivery area!”