Sarah, Thanks! I'll add it to the archive. Robert -- Robert Crowe Telephone Exchange Name Project http://www.ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html...
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brg1942
Sep 11, 2003 2:05 pm
In Washington, D. C. it seems that when they went from 2L-4N to 2L-5N numbers, the number they added was chosen as if they had been 3L-4N. Thus, NAtional...
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brg1942
Sep 11, 2003 2:12 pm
I have seen on Robert Crowe's database that there was a time when the telephone exchange in Marble Hill (New York City, on the Manhattan- Bronx border) was...
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brg1942
Sep 11, 2003 2:18 pm
I once had a telephone numbered ORchard 4-7847 in NYC. Many years later I noticed that the OR 4 exchange was listed as ORegon 4 in the directory (of course,...
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thomas.rollo@...
tsrollo
Sep 12, 2003 5:22 pm
Hi, Not too unusual. C&P Telephone may have been in readiness for a 3L 4N conversion, but never went through with it. The first four dial conversions in the...
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thomas.rollo@...
tsrollo
Sep 12, 2003 5:37 pm
Hi, Tom again. Your colsolidation theory is correct, but I don't know when. Since the changes involve the same dial pulls, the name change may have been ...
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Bruce Gilson
brg1942
Sep 16, 2003 2:47 pm
To my knowledge, the first example of an exchange name that consisted of two letters that were not the start of a word was TT5 in the City Island section of...
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thomas.rollo@...
tsrollo
Sep 17, 2003 1:11 am
Bruce, We may never know this one for sure. Are you able determine the date of the dial cutover? Both all number and "letter select" were mentioned in Bell ...
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Bruce Gilson
brg1942
Sep 17, 2003 4:36 pm
... I'm sorry, all I have to go on is memory. Someone who is still in New York (I don't live there anymore) would probably have a better chance; I believe the...
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brg1942
Sep 17, 2003 5:32 pm
As far as I know, the last independent company to compete directly with a Bell company in the same market was Keystone Telephone Co. in Philadelphia. Has...
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hamiltonhugh
Sep 17, 2003 5:57 pm
Hi, Bruce: New York Telephone Co. announced its 'selected letters' in about 1958, but I don't know how quickly they started assigning such nameless prefixes....
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hamiltonhugh
Sep 17, 2003 6:05 pm
Hi, again, Bruce and all: I have a Dec. 1921 Keystone directory, which has a nice picture of a dial on the front cover. The prefixes in use then were: 1 was...
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robert@...
robertcrowe
Sep 18, 2003 4:47 pm
Here is an item for your file -- a coin purse advertising my maternal grandfather's business. I received it in 1962, and it is still in use. Clifton Palmer...
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ajbrancato
Sep 19, 2003 12:53 pm
55x was never "unspeakable" - KLondike exchanges existed in several locales including San Francisco, and there was even a LLoydbrook in Canada (some people...
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ajbrancato
Sep 19, 2003 12:59 pm
Did Fishers Island (governmentally part of New York's Suffolk County even though it's ten miles by ferry from New London, Connecticut and economically and...
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thomas.rollo@...
tsrollo
Sep 19, 2003 6:45 pm
Ah but there was a fictional European city in Mission Impossible named Ylapa. That fits 95. According to the Bell System list 55, 57, 95 & 97 were reserved...
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Kevin Duncliffe
duncow9000
Sep 19, 2003 7:19 pm
You mean AT&T never heard of the ylang-ylang tree? Shame. I'd have paid extra to have a number like YLangylang 5-2368. Kevin...
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thomas.rollo@...
tsrollo
Sep 19, 2003 7:37 pm
Kevin, I like yours better. Good show Tom...
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Bruce Gilson
brg1942
Sep 24, 2003 2:16 pm
... Did this dial actually show the prefix names? Or was that only information given in the directory? ... Yhis looks a lot like the way numbers were done in...
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Bruce Gilson
brg1942
Sep 24, 2003 2:34 pm
... Well, someone actually invented a KRypton 7 exchannge, although it was totally unofficial, and put it up into Robert Crowe's database as an Atlanta...
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Hugh M. Hamilton
hamiltonhugh
Sep 24, 2003 9:53 pm
Hi, Bruce et al.: The prefix names (not just the letters) were printed radially in segments of the center dial label; the dial itself had numerals only. ...
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lds_to
Oct 6, 2003 5:00 pm
I visited the Cleveland area in 2000 and noticed that a major aluminum siding company has their TV ends with the same jingle, indeed, the same recording...
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Clifton Palmer McLend...
cliftonpalme...
Oct 17, 2003 12:57 pm
One of the many reasons I deplore all-digital telephone numbers is that the following joke is no longer appreciable to most people. SCENE: The office of a...
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cosmopolitan1212
cosmopolitan...
Oct 19, 2003 4:05 pm
In the 50s, North Jersey dialed NYC with 11 plus 7-digits. When were they required to dial Area Code 212?...
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mm14019@...
mmullen67
Oct 19, 2003 7:20 pm
I figured I'd crosspost this archived article, since it may be of some interest to list members... ... From: "David Massey" <western_electric@...> ...
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rjschex
Oct 20, 2003 10:15 am
I'm looking for the exchange names (or even prefix numbers) for INDEPENDENT (non-Bell) local phone companies in the US prior to 1984--and the communities they...
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SylviasDaddy@...
cliftonpalme...
Oct 20, 2003 3:31 pm
mm14019@... posted an article entitled "Area Code plan falls into hands of the unknown" by Gene Weingarten; part of which said: Once, [Mr. Katz] lived and...
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SylviasDaddy@...
cliftonpalme...
Oct 20, 2003 3:37 pm
In a message dated Mon 20 Oct 2003 0515:52 Central Daylight Time, ... GTE was General Telephone Company. In 1970, College Station, Texas (home of Texas A&M...
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mm2mere
Oct 20, 2003 3:39 pm
... some ... 213. New ... There was ... ever ... partitioned ... others ... went from ... neighbor can ... Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine gets...
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MikeRavis@...
mikeravis
Oct 20, 2003 3:48 pm
In a message dated 10/20/03 8:41:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, SylviasDaddy@... writes: In a message dated Mon 20 Oct 2003 0515:52 Central Daylight...
