What numbers did you memorize as a kid? How old where you? And why?

For me it my address number at some time in the second grade. I really don't remember exactly the why or even when. Yet I suspect it was the second time I went through the second grade.

As to why I can speculate that it was because that school was so darn far away.

Yet it was most certainly not because of my parents. I doubt mom ever knew our address even decades later. And dad never lived with us for him to memorize it.

So what set of numbers did you memorize? When? And why?

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Ontheroad · M

I can't remember any except our mailbox number at the post office. From 5 until I left home, I lived in a tiny town and addresses weren't necessary. Everyone knew exactly where everyone else lived.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Ontheroad A PO box. Interesting because I'm uncertain if they had PO boxes in Anaheim back then. I don't even recall going to a Post office until I needed a passport at 14.

Ontheroad · M

@DeWayfarer I wouldn't think so. They were used primarily in small towns where having a mailman just wasn't economically feasible. Much less expensive to have a small post office where you could also pick up mail. I lived in San Miguel, about 250 miles north of Anaheim. At that time the population was something like 250, if you counted dogs and cats too :). My Aunt lived there and was always the favorite Aunt of the family... because Disneyland, and she had a house big enough for her nieces and nephews to stay for a visit.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Ontheroad you might be interested in this very old 1962 picture then!

Ontheroad · M

@DeWayfarer I am amazed by the open spaces, that's almost impossible to believe. I wonder what the population was then.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Ontheroad I really don't know. I was at most three years old then! Yet that's where I lived until 1975.