528
I was there... (thelemmy.club)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 55 points 3 weeks ago

White Pages was home # listings. Yellow Pages was business listings.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 3 weeks ago

For many cities they were the same book.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

Same book, but still color separated with business in yellow and residential in white.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

My city was big enough that we had to have two separate books, nyah, nyah.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

So was mine. Lol. I'm just old enough that I got around and saw books from other places.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough. My hometown is densely populated.

[-] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

For small cities, large cities had multiple white pages books. A-F G-N O-Z for example.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

All these damn kids all over the lawn.

[-] FluorineBalloon@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Having just read the thread about commercial paper shredding, your comment took my mind to a weird place.

this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
528 points (97.3% liked)

Memes

14757 readers
732 users here now

Post memes here.

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS