Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo ...

Starting with the manual operator switchboard and extending through rotary-dial telephones and phone booths, the pace has accelerated of telephone industry relics being consigned to the history books.

I am a collector of old phone books, and I have Jefferson City phone books dating back to the 1920s. The early city phone books list only those residents who had telephones, and they were two-, three- ...