Pretend post offices and phone systems

[Max Rockatansky]

I was more fascinated by the rotary phone at my grandparents house.

You must be younger than I thought, because rotary phones were a common thing well into the 1980s

Born in 1982, I think my age is even on my profile.  I'm sure in some of the inner parts of Detroit like where my grandparents lived it was more common than say the suburbs.

[kernals12]

Back in 1996, the plot of the Simpsons episode "A Tale of Two Springfields" played out in Connecticut. The state was split into 2 area codes, with the wealthy southwestern portion of the state being allowed to keep 203 while the rest switched to 860.