You Know You Are Old When

[Oaktree]

I think Pharma places those ads to buy the loyalty of the a companies.

That can be said about a lot of ads. Car ads are high on that list...lots of pickups or pseudo-SUVs driving fast down a dirt road, or or sedans racing down a city street. Most cellphone ads have never made any sense to me.

 

[MossRoad]

Tommy James lived in Niles too. I met his son 20 years ago or so.

I recall a large outdoor party at a farm in Niles with a band playing on a flatbed semi trailer.... and that's about all I can recall of that evening.

 

[goeduck]

I recall a large outdoor party at a farm in Niles with a band playing on a flatbed semi trailer.... and that's about all I can recall of that evening.

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[NoTrespassing]

When we dropped out land line, I transferred the number to an old iPhone I had laying around, forwarded that number to my cell number, and turned the old iPhone off. The only ones that call my land line number are my mother in-law (out of habit), our oldest kid (out of nostalgia) and one of my siblings (old habits never dies).

My folks recently dropped their number they had for over 60 years. I still remember it and the fact that we only had to dial 5 digits to call locally. Most lines were "party" lines with 2, 3, or 4 houses.

 

[MossRoad]

My folks recently dropped their number they had for over 60 years. I still remember it and the fact that we only had to dial 5 digits to call locally. Most lines were "party" lines with 2, 3, or 4 houses.

When I was a kid, the phone company added new exchanges in our neighborhood and we had to change phone numbers. The nice thing was it eliminated party lines, and, all of our numbers were very similar, so pretty easy to remember which neighbors had what numbers, as they were pretty much in numerical order.

I've only had 3 phone numbers in my life, and two were my parents'.

 

[Alan46]

When we moved to Oregon in 14, we saw that even local numbers you had to use the area code, any other states have to do that?

 

[NoTrespassing]

When we moved to Oregon in 14, we saw that even local numbers you had to use the area code, any other states have to do that?

We just started that about a year ago when they added a new local area code.

 

[newbury]

When we moved to Oregon in 14, we saw that even local numbers you had to use the area code, any other states have to do that?

Yup.

 

[not2old]

When I was a kid, the phone company added new exchanges in our neighborhood and we had to change phone numbers. The nice thing was it eliminated party lines, and, all of our numbers were very similar, so pretty easy to remember which neighbors had what numbers, as they were pretty much in numerical order.

I've only had 3 phone numbers in my life, and two were my parents'.

My parents only had one number other than the prefix getting changed in the 1950's when it went from two letters to three numbers. The first two numbers corresponding to the previous two letters.

 

[Oaktree]

My folks recently dropped their number they had for over 60 years. I still remember it and the fact that we only had to dial 5 digits to call locally. Most lines were "party" lines with 2, 3, or 4 houses.

My mother had the same phone # from when I was a little kid right up until her passing 2 years ago.
5 digit calling was around well into the 80s even in some of the larger cities of my state. In the town I lived in, you could dial just the last 4 digits if it was the same exchange, this continued until the late 80s.