995-5095 and 763-3500 were the first numbers thrown out on the Ann Arbor Townies ONLY Facebook page by Amir Gamzu as “iconic Ann Arbor phone numbers.” Dozens of others rushed in, dusting off the cobwebs in the part of the brain sidelined since the invention of cell phones, proposing 665-1212, 764-1817, 764-4347, 995-1818.

Gamzu moved to Ann Arbor in 1980 when he was thirteen, but his number picks are fond remembrances of his early adulthood. “No matter how drunk or stoned you were,” he recalls, if you could remember seven digits you could order a pizza.

Gamzu’s first number is Pizza House. (Other townies posted numbers for Cottage Inn and Domino’s, “but they were only good for certain neighborhoods,” Gamzu says. “Pizza House was universal.”) His second number is WCBN, the freeform U-M radio station. “You could call them up at any time of day and ask to play a song.”

Other numbers above, respectively: the time, U-M’s university operator, and HELP–all killed by the invention of Google. The last was, and is, Village Corner.