I’m probably misremembering, but I swear our phonebook was at least 5 inches thick. We used collect the neighbors because they didn’t want them, and then me and my friends would stack them in the club house we chairs.
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SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes. I live in a larger metropolitan area and there were both white and yellow (business) page editions that were 2 1/2 inches thick each.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m amazed they were even that thin. It seems like they’d have to be huge.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Very small font on very thin paper.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah it felt like the Bible and the white/yellow pages used the thinnest paper I’d ever seen
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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).