re: Pictures from days gone by....

Sat Evening Post, 1933

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Pretty sure one of the girls in my 1st grade class had this lunch box.

Adrià Gual, The Books of Hours (1899)



Koloman Moser, Dona collint flors (1898)

United Airlines uniforms, 1939.

whats up with the phone number? did they used to be that short

Olin Mathieson Chemical in the background, Lake Charles

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whats up with the phone number? did they used to be that short

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Up and into the 1980s, towns that had fewer than about 2,000 or 3,000 phones registered only used the last digit of the exchange number (first three digits) plus the last four digits of the number. It always confused me too when we would visit my grandmother in Hickman, Kentucky and someone would only give five digits fir their number. On top of that, you usually only had to dial ( and I do mean dial ) those five digits.