Do you remember the phone numbers of your childhood?

[expatriot]

Isn't it freaky? I can't remember a phone number I've called a gazillion times in the last week and I remember all my friends phone numbers from childhood and of course my own from childhood.

[Modem Butterfly]

1. Just my friend, Jenny's 867-5309...

[expatriot]

2. I got it, I got it..... nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. I AM 64 YEARS OLD

I barely remember my childhood

my first one,that is


hee hee hee

[LisaM]

3. Yes....

of course, we all had the same exchange number, so I only had to remember the last four numbers.

[slackmaster]

4. My brain is full of obsolete information like that

Yes, I remember just about every phone number I've ever had.

[ET Awful]

5. Yup.

I remember the one we had for most of my childhood, but not the other ones we changed it to later.

[trotsky]

6. Yep

Even though we got a new one when I was about 7, and even when I've gone years without thinking about it... I can still remember.

Ask me what I had for lunch yesterday, though, and you'll get a blank stare.

[redwitch]

7. There are two I will always remember

My sister has my grandmother's number- so I've been calling it for about 40 years.My mom had the same phone number for 49 years. She passed away in December and the phone was just recently disconnected as the house is on the market. I didn't know my sisters had turned it off and I called there last week looking for one of them. When the computer told me the number was no longer in service it damn near broke my heart all over again.

[NoSheep]

9. 3911. That was it. Just 4 numbers. No prefix, no area code.

It was a heavy old black Bakelite dial phone too.

[all.of.me]

34. when i first came here to taos about 20 years ago,

all the numbers stared with 758, so you only had to know the last 4 numbers. then 751 came along, and we used the 8 or the 1 to differentiate. now there are a few more exchanges and cell phones, so we have to use the whole number. bummer!

[redqueen]

10. Only one, the place I grew up.

I've forgotten the rest.

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. 634-5789.

[Bunny]

12. 536-7253

circa 1966.

[progmom]

13. yep

8-2658 - my best friend
8-2323 - my friend next-dorr
8-2169 - me

and then we moved to Holland: 04998-96153

[noonwitch]

14. Yep-455-4035

I don't remember every phone number I've ever had, but that was the one from my childhood. I remember my Detroit number, because I had it for 12 years.

[Yit]

15. 867-5309

My name is jenny.

[chicagojoe]

16. Tuxedo 9- 0617.

And the ENTIRE Chicago area had only one area code. 312. All you had to dial was the 7 digits.

[tridim]

17. My parents still have the same number since I was born

So yes, I remember it. :)

They've lived in the same area for 45 years. Something I'll never understand.

[Orsino]

36. Mine, too.

On a recent visit, I was also able to remember a neighbor's number to go pal around with their kids (childhood friends).

[VelmaD]

42. Same here...

my parents still live in the house they moved into about 3 weeks before I was born. :)

[mcscajun]

18. FOrdham 7-5147

Shows you how old I am.

[woofless]

19. OLiver8-4722

From sometime in the mid 50's. It was the first tel. number I ever knew. Ma drilled it into us in case of emergencies.

Woof

[TlalocW]

20. My phone number

584-2881

One of my two best friend's number: 584-2551 (easy)
Other best friend's number: 584-2830

Number of a girl from a town north of us who stopped in front of my first friend's house because she thought he was cute (when we were in high school) - 529-9049

TlalocW

[mark11727]

21. OLingsville 5-2974

Somewhere in the Bronx about 40 years ago...

[mcscajun]

25. Helllooooooooo from Fordham.

:)

[mark11727]

39. Just a stone's throw from Columbus High School...

...and just off Pelham Parkway!

[likesmountains 52]

22. SPring7-1819...from 1958!

[dajoki]

23. amazing

i thought i was the only one. 1O78R from early '60s.

[Strawman]

24. yes. I'm weird like that though

As soon as I saw this post I remembered several numbers that I haven't dialed in over 20 years. Some that I probably only called a handful of times. I can see a snapshot of them in the little black book I had as a kid.

[dry99]

26. Yellowstone 2-4106

Oh, for simpler times.

[central scrutinizer]

27. DuPont 2-5662

Even as a child in the 50's I was hooked up to DU

[crispini]

28. No, but I can still remember

the phone number for the Dallas Times Herald Classifieds. The paper's long defunct and we've added an area code, but due to that snappy jingle being stuck in my brain, I will forever remember:

Seven four eight one four one four
Seven four eight one four one four
Call the Dallas Times Herald Classifieds
Get results like you've never seen before!

[luvLLB]

29. woodlawn2-3675...the same number for 48 years.

[Dukkha]

30. 882-6034

and 965-3783

[Left Is Write]

31. I remember my own number.

It was the number my parents had from 1964 to 1992. When they moved in 1992, they kept the same last four digits and only had to change the prefix, so I remember that number too. When my folks retired in 2002, their phone number was so completely different from what I was used to, it took a while to memorize it. ;)

I also remember the phone number of my best friend from my junior high/high school years. I believe her parents still have that number. (And that reminds me - I should call her today. It's her birthday.)

[all.of.me]

32. Drexel 8-0089 (my own as a kid)

my best friend's # was Drexel 8-2346. the exchange was changed to 378 later. i'm trying to remember my dad's work #, but it escapes me! i called it a billion times, too. i can remember his work address, but not ... OH! i just remembered it! 375-0732. i can't remember the exchange, though...... it wasn't Drexel 8. hmmmmmm.... that will bug me all day now.

[AzDar]

33. Freaky....[phone]...I must've only been 5-6 yrs. old...wonder why

THAT one still sticks with me???

[maveric]

35. I cancelled Ma's phone when she died in March. She had the same

phone # since 1954.
603-898-7059

[grace0418]

37. 459-7080

Of course, I can't remember the number of any place I've lived since childhood except my current one (and even that is tricky sometimes).

[u4ic]

38. 822-9780

weirder yet, I can remember the CB radio numbers of both my sister, and her then fiancee, from 1977...XM4222127 and XM 4259978. :shrug:

[d_b]

40. I still remember them all

Glad to know I'm not the only one to find that freakish.

[tjwmason]

41. 413893 up to the age of 8

Then we moved and it became 438260 for a couple of years, then 762555 until I was 12, then 22214 which got changed due to an alteration of the exchange and became 422214.