We also had the old rotary dial phone, and when we picked it up, we got the operator saying "number please", and we would tell her what number we wanted to call. They were 3 digit numbers, and usually, we only had a few of them to remember.
Eventually, they became more "modern", and we didn't need the operator, just dialed the number.
The country kids had parti-line phones, and they had a special ring for each person on the line. People spent a lot of time listening to their neighbors talking on the phone, back in those days !
I remember the roller skates, but I never had good enough balance to use them, so after a while, I decided not to bother with trying to skate with either those, or the ice skates that kids used in the wintertime.
I had a sled that i loved to use in the wintertime, and the snowdrifts were often over the top of the cars (if there was one that wasn't being kept clean and driven every day), so we kids used to pull the sleds up to the roof of the car, and then sled down the back and on down the icy street. The ice-sickles would be a couple of feet long, so having an ice-sickle snack was always good, too.
