I bought this little sticker. It is from a TV repair shop in Rio de Janeiro and it is from the 1960's. Kinda cute, isn't it?

thats Cool!!...

Neat...Didn't know Uncle Donald & the Nephews were popular down there...

Strange looking phone numbers :D Everyone knows that the natural order of the universe has phone numbers having 7 digits not including a 3 digit area code. :D

My sister remembers when my grandmother's phone number in the early 1940's in Texas was 4008 and you told that to the "number please" operator, no dial. Then later we had one in Texas in the late forties that was four digits plus J. After that it was five digits and a dial phone. Finally it got a prefix TErminal and five digits. Area codes in those days were just used by the operator: to call out of your home town was long distance, dial "0" and ask for long distance. When the long distance operator came on the line, tell her the city and number you were calling. These days we call Europe a lot and use a long distance bundler that saves us money: have to dial 21 digits but get super cheap rates!

"Here we go..State Hospital...Maine 2-4-6-8...!"

"Maine 2-4-6-8, Maine 2-4-6-8, Maine 2-4-6-8..."

"Operator, I want Maine...Maine?"

"Howdiya like that!"

Ah old phone numbers,

Our town was a Western Electric Step By Step office until the 1980's when it was changed to Western Electric 5ESS.

Our number was LIncoln 2-36**, then in the 1960's we where "Digitized" when NPA/NXX was implemented so it became 542.

Then in the 1990's we had an area code soil and where no longer part of Cleveland, Youngstown got 330, Eylria and other parts got 440 and Cleveland stayed 216.

Later on about 1998 we had to start 10 digit dialing mandatory, it has been that way ever since, just recently had another split and the new Youngstown are code is 234.

Matt