Funny how you can still remember phone numbers you or close relatives had decades ago.

[raccoon]

I guess you never forget them.

[monmouth]

1. That is the truth. I play my mother's old phone number in the lottery..LOL...n/t

[Tesha]

2. 'Back then, phone numbers tended to stick around.

Nowadays, what's the point of remembering them? ;)

Tesha

[SharonAnn]

16. My first phone number was 321-3213. Great number for a single girl, easy for guys to remember.

I always loved that phone number.

However, eventually I moved to another city and lost it. Sigh!

[demosincebirth]

23. You must be young to have seven digit number. Our parents had a four digit one.

[Ineeda]

3. True, but I often can't remember where I left my glasses

or what day of the week it is.:rofl:

[ret5hd]

4. It's Monday...and your glasses are in the refrigerator.

Now, get undressed and go to work, you lazy bum!

[hobbit709]

5. Hell, I can remember my grandparents' apartment address in Vienna

and what streetcar to take from there to anywhere else.
My CRS isn't too bad yet and I'm not up to CRAFT yet.

[raccoon]

12. Never heard of CRAFT, but I think it know what it means! nt

[hobbit709]

14. Easy

Can't Remember A Fucking Thing.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Yeah. I believe my folks' phone number was 12.

[Tesha]

18. You young whippersnapper!

My parent's phone number was "Gladys, give me my
mom, please!"

(No, not really. I'm not that old. But I do think it's
funny that a century later, we're coming back to
voice-actuated dialing.)

Tesha

[jdadd]

7. I still remember our family phone number

When it was only four digits 3556...I think I was in first grade.

[my2sense]

8. I remember old phone numbers however

I find myself looking for my cell phone - while I'm on it. Or searching for my glasses - while they are on my face. My girlfriend rec'd a text the other day and started talking to the phone as if it was a phone call. Getting older is not for weak....LOL

[KansDem]

9. I still remember the phone number of my first crush!

That would be 1965-66.

KansDem:loveya:...as he gazes out the window at a passing cloud and thinks about the things that could have been...

[Graybeard]

10. ATwater 9

Grew up in the Yorkville section of Manhattan (on the Upper East Side) in the 1940s and 50s and I still remember our "ATwater" phone number.

Famous phone exchanges: John O'Hara's BUtterfield 8 and Glenn Miller's PEnnsylvania-6-5000...so easy to remember.

[zipplewrath]

11. Make great passwords

Old girlfriends numbers that you remember with the old exchange codes make great passwords. Throw in area codes and dashes and they make great 12 character passwords with "non-alpha-numeric" characters. And virtually no one could ever "guess" them.

212-PE6-5000 satisfies ALOT of password security rules.

[raccoon]

13. I heard those exchanges on TV & movies, but never in RL. nt

[jdadd]

15. I think it was sometime in the late 50s

Before my area got assigned actual exchange prefix numbers...ours was TUxedo 4, It's still 884, they just dropped the TUxedo.....

[trof]

17. I remember calling central and party lines.

No dial on the phone.
Pick up the receiver and an operator answered.
"Number, please."
"Please give me 2748."

When the dial phones came in we had a 3-party line for a while.
Our 'ring' was 2 shorts and 1 long.
:-)

[dmr]

19. This is so true. I use these old numbers for passwords for simple things,

and when the password requires 8 or more, I just tack on the old area code (they have a new area code now).

When they ask for reminders (in case you forget the password), the reminders are Aunt Maxine, or Janet, or a street address, or old employer, whatever & then I know.

For important passwords I combine numeric & alpha of long gone relatives - like AuntHattie1886 (I don't have that password, though it's a good one. No one alive remembers Aunt Hattie & when she was born, but me).

I'm rambling, again. :rofl:

[GentryDixon]

20. When I was child

my post office box was 666. Who knew about the devil? I was about 12 at the time. I am now on Social Security.

[RKP5637]

21. I remember our number as a kid, 4 digits. We even had a private line, that was

a rarity where I lived, most were party lines. I recall my parents calling my grandparents on Christmas and Thanksgiving cross country, that took a couple of hours, all of the interconnect operators, they called back when the connection was completed. And they sure did sound miles away, which they were.

[trof]

22. Same with my USAF serial number.