Where do you get your fictional addresses/phone numbers?

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Just wondering. This isn't a huge concern of mine as a fantasy writer, but once in a blue moon I do need a phone number or something.

Usually I just use one belonging to an institution, like a school or a museum or something. I like making them related to the story or character in question~

[nostalgicroxas]

I follow Hollywood's example of using 555 in specifically phone numbers. For addresses, I haven't really ever needed any, but I have needed street names - and I end up googling names of Greeks, Latin people, or Romans. Like one street (I literally only remember this cause I just read through this part of the novel yesterday) "Chebod" street, and I think it's a last name or something I saw in the credits of a movie when I was writing that part.
The fun thing is remembering some things are named repeatedly as a thing - like "1st First" street and "Main" street are usually always renamed to something else, like a mayor's name or something, or that 99% of towns don't have a 13th street, and that in lots of towns on water of any kind, usually rename First/Main to "Water Street" because... Of course they do.
Or that names are moved around. IE george washington lived at mount vernon, in virginia USA. Washington state, named after him, has a few streets named Vernon to further connect to him..

[Geek_Aflame]

I've never needed a phone number but I've needed addresses and usually make them up off the top of my head using common street names. A pretty major event in my story happens near the corner of Short and Main Street. Where I grew up there wasn't a town over 2,000 people that didn't have a Short or Main Street in the main part of town. The un-originality is a silly joke on my part. Another common one here is British monarch names or native plants/animals.

[Geek_Aflame]

lots of towns on water of any kind, usually rename First/Main to "Water Street" because... Of course they do.

Where I live almost every coastal town/suburb has a Marine Parade as a major street. It's so ridiculous it's funny.

[nostalgicroxas]

Yep I've seen that in some water towns. The streets around Portland and Seattle are largely named after plants or fish: pike, pine, spruce, alder Or president names. And then Portland has "couch" street which everyone tells me it's "coooooouch" street and I'm like, nah it's couch like sofa

[Kinokolu]

You can buy a subscription to a VoIP number. You'll be incognito to everyone, no one can call you, and the coolest thing is that you can link this number to any social network, which means you can secure your data. I know a lot of companies use numbers like that, so they have these weird numbers, like 555-000222, and so on. If you're suddenly interested, then try the chalkboard mobile app, it's handy and easy to use.

[Stargazer31]

I name streets and places in a way that serves as foreshadowing eg: a selkie village called Pinniped (Latin name for seal species), a road called Brisingamen road (named after a Norse mythology artifact.)

[joannekwan]