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1954 dial phone instructions.
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When I was a kid we only dialed five numbers, no letters...
I still remember my aunt's and my grandparents' numbers. Regent 31874 and park 24548. Later it was 733-1874 and 722-4548.
My great grandmother rented a room in her house to the phone company. A lady sat in there all the time, plugging cords into various jacks to make connections. When i was 7-8, (late 50's) they built a little brick building next to her house for the new automatic switch gear.
She called the Letter O and the number 0 both "oh"...
Too many people don't know when to say zero...