I've finally had a few hours to redesign the database and search page. The old database was based on Microsoft Access, which was ok when it was fairly small,...
Is there any way that fixes can be made to the database? For example, there are four separate entries for LOrraine and LOrraine 2 in New York, with locations...
Bruce, Yes, I know. In hindsight it would have been better if I had created accounts for people who were contributing in the original database, so they could...
Dave LeBlanc, a Toronto writer on architecture and the city, has done a piece on named exchanges in Toronto. He gives lots of local Toronto flavor with...
Just started a new database of EXchange NAmes used in film, shows, pop stuff etc. in the group pages. If you know of others feel free to add a record to the...
Occasionally someone needs a manual for a current or obsolete phone or phone system and the site in the link below is one online source I suggest. They have...
Hello - I am a new member - joined Nov 26th - I am a matchcover collector and would like to be able to determine the date when a particular matchbook was...
Hello - Is there an Excel listing of all known US exchanges in alphabetical order with town, state available to members ? I would like to get the match...
Has anyone noticed that in a scene of this movie, the camera quickly shows a door being opened with the phone number MAdison 2239 written on the window of the...
... The old TEN Project website had all of the entries in Microsoft Access format, which can be copied into Excel or MS Word. If the data is still available in...
Saw an interesting movie this morning. It's set in about 1944 with Jimmy Stewart as a newspaper reporter. A phone number is in an ad in the paper (The...
... Yes, AMC, American Movie Classics showed the movie early this morning. I saw part of it, but not from the beginning, and not to the end. I've known of this...
The Perry Mason TV show used the MAdison exchange as well. Maybe it was set aside for fictitious numbers in movies and on TV? The series ran from 1957 to...
I also noticed that when he dialed a number, he always dialed 7 digits. I only caught the last 4 digits of one of the numbers, sounded like 1611 or something...
MAdison was in use in downtown Los Angeles from before 1929 until 1959. In the movie, which appeared long after all local numbers were seven digits, there was...
... We had a discussion about this in the C/O group some months ago. I think it was also cross-posted into TENproject, so a search for "Northside" in either...
Charlie ... See, that's what I thought too. In my dad's 1946 yearbook all numbers are listed with 4 digits after the exchange except some had 5 digits...
Around New Years Day, I watched the 1959 film "Oceans 11" where Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and pals robbed all the big casinos in Vegas. Of course, their plan...
In a message dated 1/5/2007 3:49:05 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, richardbrezet@... writes: The plot includes a phone call made by Sinatra's character...
The fictitious use of the KLondike 5- exchange in movies and TV, and in advertisements for the Bell System where a telephone is being displayed, didn't really...
Good old A4 mode, I have no idea what it's called now, I'd have to look it up. I saw the whole thing this morning. First time I'd ever caught it. I must...
We had one of those 5-digit local numbers in Paris, Illinois. 1967/68 Our number was (217) Paris 5-4350. When we went DDD in November of 1968, it became...
I thought San Francisco had a KLondike exchange. It seems that some TV show which used San Francisco as the scene of the show used that exchange, perhaps with...
I thought San Francisco had a KLondike exchange. It seems that some TV show which used San Francisco as the scene of the show used that exchange, perhaps with...
... Well, if you re-read my original posting, you'll find both topics ... MOST places in the US/Canada never used anything '55' or '55x' until sometime into...
... Up in Portland, Maine New England Tel & Tel (as it was known then) sent out little "quarter of a moon" stickers to place on the dial above the number plate...
My granddad's phone directory for Olney/Noble, IL for 1963, even though they had no DDD and Noble still had xxRx and xx-Fxx numbers, proudly announced on the...
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