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...
... The use of nnx-9xxx for payphone numbers was fairly common throughout the US and Canada well into the 1980s and 1990s, and in some places, even today. In...
Interesting. There is a 291 exchange in northwest St. Louis County and in an old telephone book (circa 1970s), it is shown as Axminster. W. Fox ... The use of...
I have that listed in the 1969 St Louis Suburban directory, too. Charlie ... From: Walter Fox To: TENproject@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007...
I don't know if any of you are fans of "24" aka the Jack show! In season three and four, they had an unprecedented viewing of a phone number (on a cell...
... and in an old telephone book (circa 1970s), it is shown as Axminster. ... AXminster was one of only three approved names for the 29- prefix (see list...
Recently, I have become hooked on listening to old episodes of "Dranet" radio programs from the early 1950s on www.Live365.com. Twice Sgt. Friday gave the LAPD...
Hi, Don: The LAPD administrative number was indeed MIchigan 5211 (changed to MAdison 4-5211 in 1958). The emergency number was MAdison 5-7911. I've no idea...
Hi, Mark and all: KLondike 2 in San Francisco never had 2L-4 numbers; it was a growth prefix introduced during World War II. There was a temporary number ...
... When was the LAPD Emergency number 213-MA.5-7911? Was it that back circa 1958? If so, it's an interesting co-incidence that it ends in '911', as the...
I have the book "Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz" (unfortunately buried in a pile of books where I can't get to it). It tells this story (more or less - I'm...
Hugh-- Did all MIchigan numbers become MAdison 4 numbers? Don -- "hamiltonhugh" <hugh.hamilton@...> wrote: Hi, Don: The LAPD administrative number was...
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