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Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Posted: Mon September 8, 2014, 9:42 pm
by Wayne Terry
Can you fix the picture so I can read the numbers on the right side of the page. I have beat my brain to death trying to remember our home phone and my Dad's business number back then....Thanks if you can....
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Posted: Tue September 9, 2014, 7:01 am
by sigmore
If you right click on the picture Wayne it will shrink and you can see the whole page. I never knew that my granddaddy Campbell, Clem, lived on Rice Street. It was before my time though.
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Posted: Tue September 9, 2014, 2:31 pm
by Jody Meacham
It took only 12 pages to list every phone in town, a fact that reveals the relative newness and rarity of telephones, not necessarily a smaller population.
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Posted: Tue September 9, 2014, 10:12 pm
by Wayne Terry
Could be a tablet issue,Sig, so I,ll try the right click suggestion on my other computer. I remember "Michael Otis" moved to thenew house when we were very young, but saw Clem' s phone number Our's was A 300 number, but danged if I can remember Dad's shop. I do remember 222 though... The Hamlet PD.
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Posted: Tue September 9, 2014, 10:16 pm
by Wayne Terry
Could be a tablet issue,Sig, so I,ll try the right click suggestion on my other computer. I remember "Michael Otis" moved to thenew house when we were very young, but saw Clem' s phone number Our's was A 300 number, but danged if I can remember Dad's shop. I do remember 222 though... The Hamlet PD. Sig, actually Mike's number was the same as our's except in a different order after dial systems came in. Ours was 582-1781..Can you remember Mike's????
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Posted: Thu September 11, 2014, 9:54 pm
by Wayne Terry
Neat...Darn, I would have never remembered the home number, but the "office number" was 65! I knew it was a 2 digit number, but was stumped!