Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

Just mentioning that new phone books will start arriving this week in San Antonio is enough to make Michelle Solis sigh in frustration. The 38-year-old entrepreneur used to store the bulky directories ...

Verizon got approval to stop delivering them in New Jersey. The company wants to phase them out in Philadelphia next. New Jersey regulators have given Verizon the green-light to stop publishing the ...

The other day a curious artifact showed up on the doorstep, an object instantly recognizable even in its somewhat emaciated form to those of a certain age, and a complete bafflement to a younger ...

The White Pages’ history is as old as the telephone itself. What began in the 1880s as a single sheet with just 44 ...

The state Utilities and Transportation Commission today announced that landline telephone providers will no longer be required to provide customers with printed “white pages” directories — those fat ...

Quote showed prof's disdain for 'snail people' To the Editor: In an AP story Nov. 13 about the end of white pages telephone books, Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson quipped, "Anybody who ...

Q: Is there anywhere you can get a telephone directory of white page listings for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County and the surrounding area like we used to receive? I want a people listing directory! As ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...