Phone numbers you remember

[jr/shotglass]

The phone number from my original hometown, back when they used letters for the first two numbers: JO2-6622

 

[Cosmo]

My cell number
My mom's landline (same as when I grew up)
My office's main number

That's it. That's the list.

 

[canucklehead]

I dialed our old landline a couple of years ago to see if anyone was assigned the number but no one answered. I grew up in a small town.
I joked with my wife once that I could probably guess my two brothers bank card access numbers as they were likely the same as mine.

 

[John]

I can remember about 10, including the local time and temperature service that probably hasn't been a thing for 20 years.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Is it weird that I remember the call-in line tied to the 1989 movie Little Monsters? (1-900-89-MAURICE). An ad for it aired at the end of the VHS.

 

[The Big Ragu]

976-

Sports Phone in the NY area in the 1970s / 80s was 976-1313.

 

[QYFW]

I don't remember my previous cell number but I remember the phone number from the house I spent the first 6 years of my life in. Only because my dad wrote it on my first baseball glove in case I lost it.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

588-2300 Empire

…. thump.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My parents still have their landline in addition to their cell phones.

I’ve also had to catch myself a few times when I’ve changed jobs because I start giving out my old work number.

 

[FileNotFound]

I have a weird probably-on-the-spectrum thing with remembering numbers, so I’m in the minority here in that I know all of my kids’ mobile numbers as well as pretty much every phone number I’ve ever dialed.

None of my kids’ area codes match the city in which they currently live, and in the case of my youngest, her area code matches a city in which she never actually lived (long story; she was living in rural North Carolina at the time, changed her carrier and didn’t choose to keep her number, and somehow got a Charlotte number.)

I’ve noted that going forward, your area code does not tell people where you live now, it tells them where you lived when you were in eighth grade.

 

[Webster]

I can tell you the number of most of my friends from elementary though high school. I have a strange ability to remember things.

 

[dixiehack]

My daughter got a cell phone this year and it has a 659 area code. 659 is the overlay for 205 that virtually no one recognizes. 205 was the original statewide area code and still signifies Birmingham (or Tuscaloosa) instantly. My ex and I got 205 numbers a year before we actually moved back to Alabama because we knew we were coming home after I finally graduated from Kennesaw State.

It feels vaguely disturbing that my own flesh and blood is not a 205 girl.

 

[qtlaw]

Wife and two sons' cell phones
Home landline
Mom's cell and landline
Own cell phone (duh)
Office direct line
Landline numbers from two home numbers prior to going to college
Law School landline
two landlines with wife
Old office numbers (3 prior firms)

I also have an uncanny ability to recall number sequences

 

[justgladtobehere]

Nothing but my phone, the phone we had growing up, my dad's because I've had to give it out so often, and Empire.

I don't remember how we kept tracks of numbers. I probably knew my friends' numbers and my dad's office. The pizza place? No idea.

 

[Killick]

GARFIELD 1, 2-3, 2-3!

 

[maumann]

In the Bay Area, dailing POPCORN would get you the time and temperature.

My number was 937-8281. My best friend's number was 933-1228. My other good friend was 935-2604. KFRC's Walnut Creek hotline was 939-2121.

I have no idea what I ate for lunch but I can rattle those off from more than 50 years ago.

 

[dixiehack]

The phone number from my original hometown, back when they used letters for the first two numbers: JO2-6622

That was before my time, but somehow these commercials lasted until the mid 80s on WGN. I remember being confused by not knowing how to dial a word.

 

[ChrisLong]

Any old-timers in SoCal remember: RIchmond 9-5171. It's the phone number **** Lane continually shouted out to get tickets to Roller Derby and Wrestling at the Olympic Auditorium.

 

[Tighthead]

Growing up, if you called within town you only had to dial 5 numbers. Are whole town had the same 543 prefix, so it was just 3-1234 to dial.

Offhand I remember about 6 friends numbers.

 

[ChrisLong]

A few years ago in the West L.A. area, they ran out of numbers for the 310 area code (which was originally 213). So they added a 424 area code. Back then, you still didn't need to dial the area code if you were calling to the same area. But if you needed to add a phone line in your house for whatever reason, you got the 424 area code. So, if you were calling from downstairs to upstairs, you had to use the area code.

I added a phone line because back then my computer had dial-up internet.