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[โ€“] Furbag@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they eventually started combining them for payphones.

They were frequently combined, the white pages were people in the local area and the yellow pages were businesses. I don't actually remember seeing white pages in any phone booths or by pay phones but that may just be where I lived.