Here's an ad from 1962 in which the phone company tries to prepare Americans for all-number phone numbers.
"America's telephones have been outgrowing the alphabet!" the ad explains.
It also teaches you to dial 1 first for a long-distance number. What a brave new world we were moving into!
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My telephone number in NYC was so old it began with MAdison 8.
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