I need yellow pages!

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Well, actually, it isn't me who needs the telephone yellow pages of cities all over the U.S. My friend Don has a project of obtaining as many yellow pages as possible. He has been writing to Chamber of Commerces and asking how much it would cost to have their yellow pages sent to him, but lately he has not been getting good responses. If any of you would be willing to mail your city's yellow pages to him, he would pay for the packaging and postage. I'm thinking, um, of a neutral address such as our local ARC.
Once a week I pick up Don and bring him to my house and we wander about WP. He says that when he is agitated, reading the yellow pages calms him down. Huh. That's what I use tubs of buttons for. Anyway, he's a nice guy and some of you are nice guys who would enjoy helping a fellow with autism and a big project.
I'm picking him up tomorrow and under my name he will be explaining his project.

Sounds cool!
I can do that.

I like to keep phone books of places I've been that I really like and hope to go back to someday.
I don't have a lot of them. New York/Manhattan is the largest city I have books for

I live in a rural community inline with several other small communities. Our yellow pages are contained in the general phone book.

I find hotel/motels to be a great source for phone books

Thank you. How much would it cost you to send a yellow pages to Don S. C/O ARC, 7318 Michigan Street, Vancouver, WA 98664?

You're sweet!

Does he have any for the Provo/Salt lake areas in Utah yet? I'd be willing to provide.

Thank you. I will ask when I see him next week.

As long as its not insanely expensive i'll send my yellow pages.

i will send mine, from Britain, woo!

also, why is your friend doing this, seems like a strange thing to do to me

WOW!! !! ! Thank you thank you.
As for strange.... do we pick our obsessions or do our obsessions pick us? Mine is buttons and books. And chocolate. His is telephone books.
By the way, I'll be doing a stopover in England this Christmas and this time I'll see more than the inside of the airport. I'll see the inside of a hotel room for some horizontal sleep before continuing onto Rwanda.

Sorry, I keep forgetting to mail the yellow pages off.
Perhaps tomorrow or Friday?

There is no hurry. Thank you for whenever you can do it.

Don Stevens is here today and I want to remind everybody about his project of collecting yellow pages around the country. He collects them because " I like looking at what stores are on the main drags." If the white pages are connected to the yellow pages, he will take those too. Here are some the cities he wants yellow pages from:

Rockford, IL
Quad Cities, half Illinois, half Iowa usa
Port Arthur, TX
Gulf Coast, Gulfport, MS
Dubuque, Iowa
All of St. Louis
Bogalusa, Louisiana
Houma, Louisiana
Opelousa, Louisiana
Purchase Area, Paducah, KY
Evansville, Indiana
Crowley, Louisiana
LaFayette, Indiana
LaFayette, Louisiana
Henderson, KY
Henderson, NV
Elkhart, Indiana
Gary, Indiana
New Iberia, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
East Chicago, Illinois
South Bend, IN
Burlington, VT
Burlington, NC
Burlington, Iowa
Burlington, CO
Michigan City, IN
Kalamazoo, MI
St. Augustine, FL
Savannah, GA
Bowling Green, KY
Peoria, IL
Bloomington, IL
River Cities, LA and MS
Jackson, MS
Jackson, TN
South Hampton RDS, Norfolk area, Virginia
Penninsula, VA
Mobile, AL
Baton Rouge, LA
Dallas, TX AT&T version
Philadelphia, PA
Tampa, FL
Baytown, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica, CA
Long Beach, CA
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, TX
Ventura, CA
All of San Diego, CA
Marin County, CA
Butte County, Chico CA
Chicago, IL

Well, once again I have put the book out on my table with the intention of mailing it out tomorrow or Tuesday.
I have classes for half the day tomorrow, so maybe I can get to town and to the post office.
If not, I have Tuesday off until I work that evening.
One way or another, I'll get the book out of here!

i still cant get over how you can tear a phone book inhalf lengthwise, but if you try tearing it from east to west its impossible

richard benson: This is something you do often?