Ha! I can remember my phone numbers and addresses..mind you, I have moved 13 times in my lifetime. The house I live in now is the one I’ve been in the longest…23 years. LOL I wrote them all down in my journal, just for fun.
Funny how the mind remembers regularly infused info from history back yet not recall recent singular activity. Personally, I think it makes perfect sense, key words being ‘regularly infused’ and ‘singular’.
I’m guessing the people with seven-digit numbers are younger than me. I grew up before all-digit dialing. My first started IN1 and my second began TU6 but that was changed to 886 sometime in the mid/late sixties.
I remember the original 5 numbers. Then they added 75 for our side of town and 86 for the other side of town. Then they added the area code. Then they changed the area code in several places around the state, but I didn’t need to learn that because no one I know lives around there anymore.
My mother, age 94, still remembers her childhood addresses and phone numbers. Fortunately, her short-term memory is still good as well! For me, I’ve never forgotten my first phone number, that started Greenwood 8.
I remember when phone exchanges began with two letters. Local was SH for Shadyside. I also remember when you had to dial O for operator and wait for her (it was always a woman back then) to answer and connect your call.
seanfear over 1 year ago
sweeter things remain.
Lucy Rudy over 1 year ago
32543 In 1954.
Argythree over 1 year ago
This is the difference between ‘long term memory’ and ‘short term memory’, right?
Macushlalondra over 1 year ago
I’m the same way. My childhood phone number was 278-4554.
saylorgirl over 1 year ago
My childhood phone number was 321-5449
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Ha! I can remember my phone numbers and addresses..mind you, I have moved 13 times in my lifetime. The house I live in now is the one I’ve been in the longest…23 years. LOL I wrote them all down in my journal, just for fun.
ladykat over 1 year ago
I can remember my childhood phone number and address. Some of the phone numbers since then have gotten a bit foggy.
rickmac1937 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Join the club
LOLBeth over 1 year ago
Just use your childhood phone number as a password. Nobody else remembers it, and you do!
stevie44 over 1 year ago
Have done that. I think that number will always stay with me. However, my cell number…..still sometimes forget. Never call myself.
jscarff57 Premium Member over 1 year ago
157 Red
RadioDial Premium Member over 1 year ago
Everyone usually remembers their first….of anything.
Ken Norris Premium Member over 1 year ago
Remember when you had to get a new phone number whenever you moved to a new city?
pheets over 1 year ago
Funny how the mind remembers regularly infused info from history back yet not recall recent singular activity. Personally, I think it makes perfect sense, key words being ‘regularly infused’ and ‘singular’.
Skeptical Meg over 1 year ago
I’m guessing the people with seven-digit numbers are younger than me. I grew up before all-digit dialing. My first started IN1 and my second began TU6 but that was changed to 886 sometime in the mid/late sixties.
Ina Tizzy over 1 year ago
I remember the original 5 numbers. Then they added 75 for our side of town and 86 for the other side of town. Then they added the area code. Then they changed the area code in several places around the state, but I didn’t need to learn that because no one I know lives around there anymore.
GovernorOfCalisota {LoveBozobyFoxo} Premium Member over 1 year ago
Brain has priorities ☺
listmom over 1 year ago
My mother, age 94, still remembers her childhood addresses and phone numbers. Fortunately, her short-term memory is still good as well! For me, I’ve never forgotten my first phone number, that started Greenwood 8.
wildwaverly over 1 year ago
“It’s called….getting old.”
maureenmck Premium Member over 1 year ago
Our number from the 1950s will always be stuck in my head, because it was the same forwards and backwards … 283-5382.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 1 year ago
Axminister 33033. Los Angeles 1940s
Kevin Parker Premium Member over 1 year ago
My childhood phone number from the sixties was still my parents’ number until they passed away last year.
TLH1310 Premium Member over 1 year ago
I combine different childhood addresses and phone numbers to make passwords.
Such as my first GF lived at 1 Parker ct, and my best friend’s phone was CAstle 20534, could make 1Parker20534.
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
I had too many phone numbers to remember, I moved around a lot, but I do remember things from the past better than things from the present.
contralto2b over 1 year ago
I remember my dad’s CB call sign that we stopped using in 1966 (KNJ 2384). Don’t ask me what my mom’s cell phone number is now, however.
goboboyd over 1 year ago
Right you are young lady.
christelisbetty over 1 year ago
I remember the exchange from our phone ’til I was 9, then the whole number on the next one.I have frozen a couple of times when asked for my current.
stairsteppublishing over 1 year ago
We lose out short term but keep our long term.
cafed00d Premium Member over 1 year ago
Still remember both phone numbers from when I lived in New Jersey in the early 60s.
Sue Ellen over 1 year ago
I remember when phone exchanges began with two letters. Local was SH for Shadyside. I also remember when you had to dial O for operator and wait for her (it was always a woman back then) to answer and connect your call.