When’s the last time you’ve seen a functional pay phone? Wow!

Toshi

 

 

Cadet Chuck

Our home number in 1945 was Jackson 7613.  Why do we remember things like that???

 

 

 

 

I can’t answer that but my home phone and address of where I grew up is 1913 A Date Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96814.  808-949-1709.  Incredible isn’t it, how the brain works!  This was 1970.  I’m operating with an injured brain frontal lobe, I can’t remember what I did yesterday yet I can remember everything pre-accident.  lol!

 

Toshi

 

I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles and our phone number was 213-790-6693.

Here's another blast from the past, S&H Green Stamps. Got them at the grocery store as a reward program depending how much one spent and could be redeemed at the S&H Gift Center. Lots of cool stuff my mom got for the house back in the 60's.

Little Timmy's home # 503- 357-8962 ( this was in Dilly Or. around 1968)

How I remembered this I have no idea.

We were on a party line with 4 other neighbor's. ( I use to get in sooooo much trouble for listening in and "BURPING" on the line.)

Yea... I remember S&H Green stamps. My grandpa had a barrel full of em. He use to redeem them for all kind's of stuff.When he passed in 2004 we found around 6000 of them in his shop. Why he was still hanging on to them .....we will never know. I dont think they were any good after about 1980.

My number back in the '50s was Madison 3. 

When my mother passed a few years ago, we found a good sized box full of Green Stamps in the attic all put into the books. No telling what they would have been worth when they were popular. 

Jim  

When we moved and got a new phone number,  I tried to get PA6-5000 but it was not in the available pool.

In Australia, our government, in all its wisdom is replacing the entire nation's telephone network with an internet based system, laughingly called the NBN (National Broadband Network). We have no option, we will be forced to change over.

This means that eventually, every landline phone in Australia will be connected via a modem, which of course will require power. So in the event of a power outage, we will also lose the phones. Great huh?

Retired In Kalifornia

 

 

Toshi

 

 

Retired In Kalifornia

The last time - and likely the last time - I'd used a public pay phone was around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2011; the precision remains memorial...

 

 

 

 

Isn’t that just a miracle in of itself!  

 

Toshi

 

 

 

 

Sure was, didn't have a cell phone then! Do remember making Operator Assisted calls in 1960s, 911 wasn't active then either.

 

 

You wouldn't beleive where 911 was first created.  Haleyville, Alabama.... Whoda thunk?