Report: If your phone has one of these 10 area codes, never get rid of it.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

Dang, how old are you or where did you live as a kid that you might've even still had to call an operator to make a long-distance call?

I'm 52 (soon to be 53) and I remember this. I lived in areas that had a single area code for the entire region so all we had to remember was the seven digit number and early on (early 80's), we used the operator to call long distance. I remember the calls being really static-y.