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minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up47·21 hours agoWhite Pages was home # listings. Yellow Pages was business listings.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·20 hours agoFor many cities they were the same book.
minus-square𝓒𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoFor small cities, large cities had multiple white pages books. A-F G-N O-Z for example.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 hours agoSame book, but still color separated with business in yellow and residential in white.
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours agoMy city was big enough that we had to have two separate books, nyah, nyah.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 hours agoSo was mine. Lol. I’m just old enough that I got around and saw books from other places.
minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 hours agoFair enough. My hometown is densely populated.
minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours agoAll these damn kids all over the lawn.
minus-squareFluorineBalloon@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoHaving just read the thread about commercial paper shredding, your comment took my mind to a weird place.
White Pages was home # listings. Yellow Pages was business listings.
For many cities they were the same book.
For small cities, large cities had multiple white pages books. A-F G-N O-Z for example.
Same book, but still color separated with business in yellow and residential in white.
My city was big enough that we had to have two separate books, nyah, nyah.
So was mine. Lol. I’m just old enough that I got around and saw books from other places.
Fair enough. My hometown is densely populated.
All these damn kids all over the lawn.
Having just read the thread about commercial paper shredding, your comment took my mind to a weird place.