THE WOODLANDS, Texas-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2006-- The User-Friendly Phone Book (UFPB), a leading independent yellow page directory publisher, is distributing its first Akron-Medina, Ohio ...

There weren’t any residential listings. A notice accompanying the directory said that if customers wanted a printed copy of residential listings, they’d have to request it.

The first "phone book" (really a one-page sheet) came long before phones like this, but it was an important step towards the printed directories that were ubiquitous in the twentieth century and ...