One of my memories of Australia (circa 1975) is the two South Australia phone books: one for Adelaide, one for the entire rest of the state (380,000 sq. mi., 1/9 the contiguous U.S.). Neither was a whole inch thick. In the second one, you could see the size of a town by the number of digits in the phone numbers. One was Government agent . . . . . 6 General store . . . . . . . . . 8 Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Date: Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:42 pm (UTC)In the second one, you could see the size of a town by the number of digits in the phone numbers. One was
Government agent . . . . . 6
General store . . . . . . . . . 8
Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3