No St. Patrick's Reference?
If it’s a local-ish call, why wouldn’t you just use the phone book? I’m pretty sure information cost back then, too. Just look in the book—it’s easier and cheaper.
I loved phone books when they were detailed, informative, and helped promote the community. Once all the local phone books got bought up and lost their local flair and cut out all the fluff in the sake of money, that’s when phone books started becoming pointless.
Meanwhile, “information” is still out there raking in dough and misgendering people.
The weatherperson has been drinking on air again. “My friends…”? No, don’t like that. I’m gonna start watching the weather on channel 9.