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Originally Posted by 4691mls
That reminds me of the Andy Griffith show 
I am old enough to remember a party line but not old enough to have had a 3-digit phone number.
As I recall, we gave up on our party line because there was somebody who had a tendency to not get their phone all the way hung up after making a call, and when this happened nobody else was able to use the line. |
Yes, the number of digits depended on how many customers were connected to a particular switchboard. My town had a population of barely five hundred souls, plus the nearby outlying farms. With fewer than 999 households we could easily fit into three digits. The nearest
city, about fifteen miles away had around ten thousand people, and they had four digit numbers.