Old telephone prefixes

[Dumpling]

I grew up in Royal Oak with 313-LIncoln*-**** [[still in use
though with the 248 area code now). There's a Lincoln Street
in downtown Royal Oak which is probably the namesake.

[SHAARI]

hey there! Berkley, also LIncoln [[54...) exchange

fun fact? When I was working for GM at the Milford Proving Grounds in the late 80's, they still had a stepper switch that supported five-digit dialing [[68x-xxxx)

[248lurker]

I grew up in Royal Oak with 313-LIncoln*-**** [[still in use
though with the 248 area code now). There's a Lincoln Street
in downtown Royal Oak which is probably the namesake.

I believe the former Hermann's bakery used to identify themselves with an LI#-#### number well after named prefixes became a thing of the past.

I grew up on Sussex near Plymouth & Greenfield on the west side. Our number was VErmont 62365. I’ve forgotten a lot of other phone numbers in my life, but never that one!

My grandma's number was a VErmont number. Even though letter prefixes were no longer being used when I was a kid, I still remember my mom putting my grandma down as an emergency contact for school and recording her number as VE#-####. Young me didn't understand why she did that.

[phin]

I believe the former Hermann's bakery used to identify themselves with an LI#-#### number well after named prefixes became a thing of the past.

Ferndale Radiator still has the number on the side of his work truck, LI-#####