Didn't realize the yellow pages still exist

[kdonnel]

Went out to the mailbox today and found The Real Yellow Pages.

It sure is a shadow of what I remember.

I'm not sure how many pages but measured with a ruler at 1/4 inch. I remember the yellow pages of old at 2 1/2 to 3+ inches.

Who still uses the Yellow Pages?

 

[BrianL]

Man, I haven't received one in ages! I do remember the last few getting really small compared to how they used to be. Now, the classic trick of ripping a phone book in half isn't so impressive!

 

[kdonnel]

A follow up.

Did anyone or their parents deliver phone books?

I have vague memories of there being cases of phone books loaded in the back of our station wagon.

 

[Kitty 34]

Yes, my Mom did when I was around 6.

 

[WDW_fan_in_TX]

Went out to the mailbox today and found The Real Yellow Pages.

It sure is a shadow of what I remember.

I'm not sure how many pages but measured with a ruler at 1/4 inch. I remember the yellow pages of old at 2 1/2 to 3+ inches.

Who still uses the Yellow Pages?

Lol. I didn't even know phone books still existed. Crazy. On a related note, DW's grandmother used to work at a phone switch board. A house would call into the center and ask for someone or a number, and DW's grandmother would switch them to that number so they could talk to the person they were trying to reach.

 

[tvguy]

I kept old phone books at my desk at work for research. People laughed at me until they needed some information that they could not find on the internet, but I found in a 15 year old phone book.
We took a tour of the California State Library and the guide said the most popular collection they had was every phone book for every community going back like 100 years. Big research tool for those into genealogy. And the guide said information from one of their old yellow pages from like 1950 settled a lawsuit. A city alleged that a major oil company was responsible for removing abandoned tanks from a gas station that closed in the 1950s. Problem was the city had no official record of there ever being a gas station there, and the oil company claimed they had no such record. Someone looked in the 1950 Yellow pages and found an ad for that brand gasoline station at that address. At that point the oil company agreed to pay for removing the tanks and removing all the contaminated soil.

 

[citruscurtis]

A follow up.

Did anyone or their parents deliver phone books?

I have vague memories of there being cases of phone books loaded in the back of our station wagon.

1996 my sister was on missionary furlough and she did that in Salem Oregon

 

[citruscurtis]

Man, I haven't received one in ages! I do remember the last few getting really small compared to how they used to be. Now, the classic trick of ripping a phone book in half isn't so impressive!

Huh.... how do you keep the front door open when moving items through the door???.... it's the perfect wedge

 

[disneychrista]

I get at least one phone book every year. It goes from my porch to the recycle bin without ever bringing in my house.