seanwilliams@attmail.com (03/31/91)
I found a bit of nostalgia in the March 28, 1991 edition of {The Duncannon
Record}:
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Twenty-five years ago, March 31, 1966...
The United Telephone Company's 1966 directory is off the
presses in time for April 1st delivery. For the first time the Perry
County Directory will combine all telephone listings for the Blain,
Duncannon, Ickesburg, Liverpool, Loysville, Marysville, Millerstown,
New Bloomfield, and Newport exchanges into a single alphabetical list.
[I have excerpted this from a weekly article in {The Duncannon Record}
entitled "Them Was the Days".]
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The directory mentioned in this article is a far cry from
today's United "Red Book", which includes listings for an additional
two United Telephone-served counties, plus the metro-Harrisburg
listings (provided by Bell of Pennsylvania). Of course, the book also
includes the modern community pages, with maps/bus routes, etc. And a
"Talking Fingers" (voice information) section. (It's like the
Donnelley "Talking Yellow Pages" if anyone is familiar with the
system.
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