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In reply to the discussion: Do you remember your phone number from when you were a 'ute? Ours was operator serviced. [View all]blm
(113,122 posts)4. You should never post your old number on the internet.
Or encourage others to do so. Many elderly people use it as passcodes because they know they CAN remember it. Scammers put up the Do you remember posts on Facebook, then collect the replies that foolishly added the number. Dont mean to sound like a scold, but, this scam happens every day.
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Do you remember your phone number from when you were a 'ute? Ours was operator serviced. [View all]
3Hotdogs
Mar 26
OP
Those phones were indestructible. Unfortunately they were used as weapons sometimes
Walleye
Mar 26
#1
Same here. Used to have a head full of telephone numbers. Don't need them anymore
Walleye
Mar 26
#10
Yup, way back when we used two letter phone designation with a number, then four digits..Usually the
mitch96
Mar 26
#3
True. During the short time I was on Facebook with a friend & her friends, they really enjoyed
Hekate
Mar 27
#40
My greatgrandfather lived in Bryants Pond, Maine, home of the last crank telephone system.
bluedigger
Mar 26
#11
Operator service for us too, in Auburn, Alabama, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. "Number please!"
Bo Zarts
Mar 26
#12
Not only do I remember our phone when I was a kid in the '50s. I remember my grandmother's phone
Wonder Why
Mar 26
#14
Heck, my sister still has it. It's a couple of numbers longer than it as in the late 40s, but still works.
Biophilic
Mar 26
#18
Yes, and it's still my Mom's number even though she moved out of the house several years ago.
beaglelover
Mar 26
#25
Small useless factoid: 867 5309 Jenny was written a stone's throw away from...
Brother Buzz
Mar 26
#36