Posted by Land on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 6:59AM :
In Reply to: Re: Finally Got My Logo's Painted...What Do You Think? posted by Bob Thompson on Monday, April 19, 2004 at 11:53PM :
Bob,
While I do know what a dial is, I have wondered about the old-style phone numbers.
The McKenzie family business' number was PHone HAstings 1089. How would one have dialed that in 1950?
I grew up with dials -- and I remember as a kid being able to dial just the last four to call my buddies (small-town SC in 1970s, early '80s). If I were in Hastings, say, 50 years ago, would I have just dialed the last 4 to get the McKenzie Barge & Derrick Co.? What if I were in the next town or the next county over? Would Marty have been tall enough to reach the phone?
Dave's number below -- AXe3-3464 (very cool for a treefarm/logging co.) -- looks like I would dial 2 for A and 9 for X, so the number would be 293-3464, correct?
Sorry to go off topic, but I have wondered about this.
Curious in Baghdad,
Chris
M37 at home in SC
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