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Nostalgia: The yellow directory was once the 'phone book'

Nostalgia: The yellow directory was once the 'phone book'

Telephone directories were chained inside the ubiquitous red public telephone booths. They were used for locating landlines and directions of those listed there in. You must have been ‘someone’ tough to have your contacts staring back at people from inside that bulky thing.

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