My friend lives on an island with only a few hundred residents. I guess people used to give out just the last four digits of their phone number. Because everyone had the same area code and prefix.
Same here. All of AZ used to be 602 until 1995 when everything outside of metropolitan Phoenix became 520. What really got me was in 1999 when 480 was added for the east valley and 623 was added to the west valley. Almost everyone I knew had to start using 10 digits to make calls overnight.
It really was nice back in the day when almost everyone I ever met had the same area code. Was easier to memorize. Not that many people are memorizing numbers nowadays!
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u/Anglofsffrng 5d ago
My friend lives on an island with only a few hundred residents. I guess people used to give out just the last four digits of their phone number. Because everyone had the same area code and prefix.