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Legend has it that each of these would hold a book with everyone's name and home address, for anyone who wanted it.
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Phonebooks with home addresses? I don't remember that existed. Which country is that?
I mean, sure... names and area-codes made it relatively trivial to figure out the home address, but it wasn't printed in them.
Edit: ugh, I think I just misremembered. Getting old sucks.
Oh yeah, it was normal in the US for a while.
In fact, it's used as a plot device in lots of old movies where detectives (or the Terminator) are trying to track someone down.