SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) - A couple of decades back you could dial up five numbers on the old rotary phone and talk to your neighbor.

Seaside Mayor Don Larson remembers those days and said he misses them.

But starting Sunday, many north coastal Oregon towns will have to dial 10 numbers, just like their big-city counterparts, even to order a pizza from across the street.

The change - which affects phone customers from about Cloverdale north to Washington then inland into Tillamook and Clatsop counties - is due to growing demand for new telephone numbers in the 503 and 971 areas.

Oregon Public Utility Commission spokesman Bob Valdez said in the past, most houses had just one phone line. Now, he said, there are fax lines, Internet access and more.

He said the demand for new numbers has soared and that there are only so many of them to go around.

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