Your first telephone number

[Sonny44]

Betcha can't remember.

Mine: Culver 3427J, Rochester NY, some time in the 50's. It was a party line with three other families.
Yours?

 

[JimGunther]

Hah!
Not only remember my first home phone # (933-7089) but my best friend (Johnny Cahalan) in second grade's - MA-4-2449 - AS I recall, first person I ever called.

Don't ask me what I did yesterday - I have no idea<G>.

 

[CocoHusky]

Betcha can't remember.

Mine: Culver 3427J, Rochester NY, some time in the 50's. It was a party line with three other families.
Yours?

I bet I can because it was only 7 digits and there was no place to store it besides long term brain memory. I also remember my now wife's number from 35 years ago and my first girlfriend's number. Please don't tell my wife. Anyone who responds to this thread with a 10 digit answer is a "YOUNGIN".

 

[Bliss]

First phone number was 439R and it was a private line - very uptown.

Me: Pick up receiver and wait
Operator: "Number please"
Me: (say number wanted, as "292A")
Operator: "Thank you"
Me: (sometimes) "You're welcome"
Operator: Dials number

 

[friscoflyer]

4300 on a party line. Our ring was two longs and a short.

 

[temery]

4049. House next to us was 4050, 4051, etc.

We had a party line, but never was able to figure out who the others we shared the line were.

 

[temery]

Anyone who responds to this thread with a 10 digit answer is a "YOUNGIN".

Funny, I was about to say anyone with more than four digits is a youngin.

 

[BigBird]

3769. Uh B,uh B, uh B - dat's all folks!

 

[alexrgct]

415-567-4379. lived in San Francisco ages 1-6.

215-987-3752. Lived in Eastern PA ages 6-8. Would be a 610 number now, I imagine, as it was pretty far outside of Philly.

I have no idea how I remember this crap...

 

[Aluminny69]

In Milford, our phone number started with TRinity (87). I think it was something easy, like 878-2468.....

 

[Sky ball]

In South Windsor around 1963 we had Mitchell 4......? Which was a party line. It had 3 houses on line with different rings for each subscriber.

 

[cabbie191]

My parents built and moved into our home a month before I was born 65 years ago. I absolutely remember the number but to be honest, I'm helped by the fact my brother bought the house from my parent's estate about 20 years ago.

It's not an issue any longer but for awhile, I was challenged remembering the change in area code from 203 to 860.

I also remember my best friends number.

 

[meyers7]

First one I can remember was in Jr Hi/HS. Had a about a half dozen before that though (no memory though). I think it was 309-342-8635.

I did have a girlfriend way back, I think her number was 867-5309. Sounds familiar anyway.

 

[wire chief]

Until we moved into our first mortgaged home, phone #s had no meaning to me. I was 8 when we were assigned DU4-2537.

 

[Ellie]

2137 party line with our signal being two short rings. Why is it that I remember but not my present cell phone number!?!?

 

[Carnac]

C'mon Sunny44, "mature" indiviuals may experience short term memory loss, but not people or events that were present when we were young and full of pee and vinegar. Ours was AD-17077. We had one phone in the house, with a cord of course, and 1 ring tone. And gas was 15 cents a gallon. Seems like only yesterday.

 

[~*Jen*~]

465-4292

Haven't had this number in over 20 years, though. The area code has changed since then and now it's a business number.

Now ask me what my phone number was when I lived in East Hartford and no... can't tell ya. I've forgotten my Florida and Connecticut numbers. I remember central Georgia. I've forgotten both Atlanta numbers and I remember Alabama. And I haven't had a house phone since I moved to Iowa.

 

[bags27]

I bet I can because it was only 7 digits.

If it was Norristown, it probably started with 27- (BR-). Area code 215.

 

[OldAlum]

TR-80761

 

[tomcat]

In Springfield in the 50s, you either were REpublic or STate. We were RE48830.

 

[Monte]

Betcha can't remember.

Mine: Culver 3427J, Rochester NY, some time in the 50's. It was a party line with three other families.
Yours?

...621

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

201-Clifford4-6652. South River, NJ.

 

[Yukon]

867-5309 (yes my name is Jenny)

 

[JRRRJ]

Betcha can't remember.

Mine: Culver 3427J, Rochester NY, some time in the 50's. It was a party line with three other families.
Yours?

MItchell 3-8733. Manchester added MI9 a few years after I was born, and 644- and 646 just before the "kids" phone got added upstairs, when the town got the first electronic switching system in SNETCo. (I have a vague recollection it was the first in the U.S., but that could be wrong.) The MI3 number was a party line for a while with the Wessons next door. We had a 2-long-ring signal.

 

[Scud49]

Grew up in Orange, Mass. back in the 60's - can't remember my entire number, but I do remember we had 5-6 others on our line.

Our "ring", signifying a call for us, was one long, one short. Everyone kept their conversations short and to the point in those days.