227 Area Code

[TPD]

Just got a notice from Verizon on the new area code - 227 - going into effect in our area starting 6/14/23.

Who remembers the big deal when Maryland went from a single area code to 2 different ones (as 240 the 2nd or 443?) and we were forced to dial all 10 numbers? Now who even dials a number anymore? Do you even know what your spouse's phone number is? I recall the days in Ridge/Scotland when we only had to dial 5 numbers to call anyone else in Ridge/Scotland. I still remember some landline numbers and find it quicker to dial those numbers rather than find the name in my contacts list.

These damn smart phones have made us all dumb! We can no longer remember phone numbers, spell, or do simple math.

 

[RoseRed]

I still have a 301 number. I've had the same number since the early 90's.

 

[Sneakers]

Remember when you didn't need a area code unless you were dialing outside it? Only 7 digits, and the first two were actually numeric representations of the town you lived in.

Mine used to be SH4-3339 for Shoreham-4.

 

[Kyle]

Remember when you didn't need a area code unless you were dialing outside it? Only 7 digits, and the first two were actually numeric representations of the town you lived in.

Mine used to be SH4-3339 for Shoreham-4.

When I first moved to Mechanicsville in the 70s, from an 884 number you could just dial five digits for another 884 number.

 

[Sneakers]

When I first moved to Mechanicsville in the 70s, from an 884 number you could just dial five digits for another 884 number.

Yes, you're right. Forgot that. We only needed 4 digits within the exchange, and everyone complained when they had to use 5.

 

[NextJen]

Mine used to be SH4-3339 for Shoreham-4.

I remember letters in the phone number

 

[Grumpy]

I remember letters in the phone number

Laff of the day...

 

[Sneakers]

I remember letters in the phone number

One of my favorites....

 

[RoseRed]

When I made it to MD after my drive from CA, I arrived at my sisters place in Lusby. There was a note from her telling me to call her at her friends place to let her know. She was over in St. Mary's and the call never went through. I couldn't figure it out. She came home later and asked why I never called.

Circa 1990.

 

[PrchJrkr]

I still have a 301 number. I've had the same number since the early 90's.

The most constant thing in my life, next to family.

 

[Bann]

I can still remember my home phone number from 2nd grade, when I lived in NJ. I only learned 7 numbers, not 10!

 

[RoseRed]

I can still remember my home phone number from 2nd grade, when I lived in NJ. I only learned 7 numbers, not 10!

I had many since we moved a lot. I don't recall them all.

 

[Bird Dog]

OK..I can play "can you top this".....
My first memory of a phone was "two shorts and two longs".......Scotland , MD

 

[Bann]

I had many since we moved a lot. I don't recall them all.

I get it!!

We didn't have a phone in Italy, and the NJ phone number was the last one we had before we moved. However, I don't recall the number we had before NJ or when we moved back to the states in '72 to Norfolk, VA Or Jessup, PA. I remember the number we had when we moved to Hollywood in '74, but I don't remember any of my own numbers when I moved out on my own! Very weird!

 

[TPD]

OK..I can play "can you top this".....
My first memory of a phone was "two shorts and two longs".......Scotland , MD

Are you Moses?



When I was in high school, mid 80s, I got a phone and my very own phone number in my bedroom. I would like to have you think it was because I was popular with the girls, but I wasn’t. I mainly needed a separate line for my dial-up Compuserv connection. That number I got was my uncle’s old number, who had moved to Arizona a couple years earlier. Guess you could say I was a recycler before recycling was even a thing - just happened that was the number Verizon gave to me. 38 years later I still have that same number, one of the reasons I don’t want to give up my landline. (A high school friend that I hadn’t heard from in years called me on that number last month. If not for that, he would have never found me, not that there’s anything wrong with that).

I‘ve had the same cell number since about 1992 - one of the first 904 numbers. My first cell number was a long distance call from Ridge.

 

[Tech]

Moved here in early 90's, had trouble calling Waldorf. You need to dial 1 to reach Waldorf? Prior phone company had done away with that years before and thought all did.

 

[spr1975wshs]

I remember letters in the phone number

When we lived with my maternal grandparents until I was 7 and dad could afford a down payment on our own house: RE(serve)7-5212.
Nonnie and Papa got that number when they bought the house in 1942 and it was in use until Papa D'Orazio died in November 2010 at the age of 99 1/2. He had been a widower for 20 years, to the day.

When we got the new house in 1964: ST(ate)8-4936. That was in use until we sold the house in March 2021 after mom passed. She had been a widow for 10 years and 7 months.

 

[DaSDGuy]

When I was a kid Grandma and Grandpa had a phone on the kitchen wall that you had to crank and wait for the operator. You told her who you wanted to talk to. Local calls you just named the family and hopefully the party line wasn't in use. Long Distance, which they rarely used, the operator would connect to an operator at the remote location and they connected the call.

 

[Kyle]

Long Distance Operators, Overseas Operators, Collect Calls, Person-to-Person Calls, Station to Station...

Ghosts of Ma Bell.

 

[Gilligan]

Our first farm was way out in the wilderness that was central Howard Country around 1960. Our phone number was 94300. As other people moved into the general area, all were on the same party line.