This doesn't look like the phone book I remember using (also known as the telephone directory, the whitepages, etc)

The old telephone directory - upon delivery would check to see if your number was in it!

This one is rather self-explanatory. My shock in seeing a payphone WITH a phone book in the year 2011 was perhaps the first sign that told me how far away California is from New Jersey. This wasn't the only one I've seen, so maybe it's just a local cultural trend. Or maybe the phone book lobby is very powerful — some old law that can't get re-written without a major to-do. The funny thing was that minutes after I snapped this photo, a man came to service the phone, empty the change, and…

the black phone book aesthetic

For those of us who lived any portion of our lives when the Yellow Pages phone book was an essential community resource -- could we ever have imagined a day

This is a guide about uses for old phone books. Dont just throw away your old phone books, reuse all of that paper.

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