[81alum]

When I was growing up we had only 5 digits in our telephone number, 8-2859.  I'm not sure I ever knew how one would dial a long distance number.  I don't think I made a long distance call until after they had added area codes and full prefix, the current 10-digit format.

I knew my area code and prefix, but so long as we were calling locally we only needed 5 digits.

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Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .

Party Line - The Kinks - 1965. - YouTube

[81alum]

When I was growing up we had only 5 digits in our telephone number, 8-2859.  I'm not sure I ever knew how one would dial a long distance number.  I don't think I made a long distance call until after they had added area codes and full prefix, the current 10-digit format.

I knew my area code and prefix, but so long as we were calling locally we only needed 5 digits.

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Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .

Party Line - The Kinks - 1965. - YouTube