Submitted by BarkySlice t3_z5bxu2 in pittsburgh
Before the proliferation of AOL, how could you find out the weather forecast on demand? First one to share the correct phone number wins. I called it daily as a tween/teen before picking out what to wear to school.
765-1212
I used to call 412-262-2170. NWS office in Moon. All you had to do was press 1 for the recorded daily forecast.
It was printed on the front page of the Post-Gazette.
Oh, I would have said that one building in town with the forecast lights
That was for the cops I think. I remember memorizing that number as a young kid (it was on the side of police cars)
That would get you to the Pittsburgh Police.
This is the answer!!!
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I remember the yellow pages had a section with codes to call PG Link, an automated phone service. Maybe there was one from Channel 11 too in the Donnelly Directory, the competitor to the yellow pages?
Or you just waited <10 minutes for the local forecast on the Weather Channel.
I also appreciate the authenticity of your answer, you didn’t have to use the area code for local calls back then.
Here's a recording I made of it sometime in 2006:
PO5-1212 - police before 911.
936-1212 is correct!
Top of the Gulf building.
391-9500. It's still there.
Wow!! Thanks for the memory, we used to call 936-1212 every night before bed so we could get clothes out for school. I knew this number by heart (granted it was not a hard # to remember, but I was a young child).
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Donnelly Directory isn't something I thought I'd remember. Thanks for unlocking that memory.
Wow I completely forgot about this. My brothers and I would always ask my Dad to call the “weather man” when the weather started to get nice.
We had Pitt Tele fact.
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Thanks for the memory. I called. Reminded me of being a kid.
North-seaweed t1_ixv6syl wrote
We6 1212?