Won a 1954 Seattle phone book on Goodwill.

[Greg G.]

This increases my Seattle phone book collection by 33.33 50%.  I also have two others, 1939 and 1941.  It's not in the greatest of shape, but it's intact.  I collect these for mostly reference and of course just for the fun of it, since I grew up and spent most of my adult life in the Greater Seattle area, as did most of my relatives.

[unbeldi]

Ok, we know whom to call when needing to look up office names in Seattle.   

[Greg G.]

Ok, we know whom to call when needing to look up office names in Seattle.   

Or relatives.  One person who was apparently doing genealogy research managed to find a previous post and asked me to look up his uncle in the 1941 directory: 

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=5619.msg76479#msg76479

[AE_Collector]

This increases my Seattle phone book collection by 33.33%.  I also have two others, 1939 and 1941.

You shortchange yourself (or you're collection) Briny! You've increased your Seattle phone book collection by 50% and this one is now 33.3% of your entire collection.

I have a couple of old Vancouver phone books around too, they are a good reference item to have on hand to check many different aspects about the developement in telephony over the years in your city.

Terry

[.....]

It almost looks like my 1937 Toronto phone book.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=14646.0

[Greg G.]

This increases my Seattle phone book collection by 33.33%.  I also have two others, 1939 and 1941.

You shortchange yourself (or you're collection) Briny! You've increased your Seattle phone book collection by 50% and this one is now 33.3% of your entire collection.

Terry

You're right, whatever. 

[Greg G.]

It almost looks like my 1937 Toronto phone book.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=14646.0

Maybe we should have a child board just for old directories.

[AE_Collector]

You're right, whatever. 

Three books is three books no matter how you count them!

Good to see things like this donated to charity to be sold. I bet 90% of people cleaning out stuff from parents houses etc would just toss a book like this thinking it was nothing but garbage.

Maybe we should have a child board just for old directories.

May not be a bad idea. I know that DavePEI had some posts about his phone book collection as well as others icluding Autonut's book. I will do some looking around and thinking about that.

Terry

[Jim Stettler]

Many times the thrift store toss or scrap these things as well.

[.....]

Maybe we should have a child board just for old directories.

May not be a bad idea. I know that DavePEI had some posts about his phone book collection as well as others icluding Autonut's book. I will do some looking around and thinking about that.

Terry

That may not be a bad idea. I have a 1967 Toronto phone book as well, plus a phone book cabinet to put them on display when needed.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=13604.0

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=15498.0

[TelePlay]

Maybe we should have a child board just for old directories.

Well, we sort of do have one at

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?board=93.0

which was created by DavePEI about 2 years ago, unless you are thinking of a board just for directories only.

[AE_Collector]

I sort of had that in the back of my mind, that there may already be an intended area for directories. Problem solved!

Thanks John,

Terry

[Greg G.]

I sort of had that in the back of my mind, that there may already be an intended area for directories. Problem solved!

Thanks John,

Terry

Thanks!  It will be a good place for show-and-tell (which I like doing as much as collecting the phones!) and a resource for people like Hudsran who was just doing genealogy research.

[.....]

I sort of had that in the back of my mind, that there may already be an intended area for directories. Problem solved!

Thanks John,

Terry

Terry.

You may want to move this one as well.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=13604.0

Doug

<edit> Done. Terry