Before Google and social media, the only way you were able to find a way to contact someone or a business was the Local Directory (aka: ‘Phone Book’). As scary as it may seem today, unless a person ...

IF you have been putting off ironing your telephone book, you need no longer hesitate. I can tell you how it’s done. I recently ironed the Manhattan Directory—all eighteen hundred and thirty-six pages ...

Those times, in my early years it was just fun to pick up phones, without knowing who the caller was. Our black coloured telephone 422462 in the late 70s was our pride and neighbour’s envy, yet on ...

This week marked the anniversary of that solemn tome, that august undertaking, the telephone book, in honor of which the Saturday Evening Post has run a fascinating and whimsical piece by Jeff Nillson ...

Imagine a list anyone can access, for free, containing the home phone numbers of everyone in the country, along with their address. To anyone under 40, it must sound like a privacy nightmare, not ...