You also need to keep in mind that there were not nearly as many phone numbers back then. While today a family of 4 might have a cell phone for each person (especially by the time the kids are teenagers), in the 20th century most families just had one number for the whole household (and the earlier you go there might have even been just one actual phone in the house).
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WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m amazed they were even that thin. It seems like they’d have to be huge.
jqubed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Very small font on very thin paper.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah it felt like the Bible and the white/yellow pages used the thinnest paper I’d ever seen