Here's another quesion just like the questions aout "Oceans Eleven" phone number in Las Vegas and "Little Ceasar" in NYC that I posed some time ago. I was...
Hello Richard, New York City began to get dial service in 1922 with 3 letters preceding the 4 digit line number. Before that, the exchange name often came...
Hi: In the 1908 directory, there was a Plaza prefix, which did not have five-digit numbers (which by the way would have topped out at 10499 rather than 10500)....
City Island, the last manual exchange in New York City, got dial service and the first nonsensical letter exchange — TT 5 — in 1960. New directory entries...
... Why no 10500 line-number? Was there a fully "zero" line-number instead? ... About a week ago, CBS/Viacom/Paramount started the official release on DVD of...
Hollywood seems to make that mistake a lot. My Dad's phone number at home was PULlman 8862. Remember the thread on NORthside 0777? There were a couple phones...
The high 10xxx numbers were always in manual offices in panel/1XB areas. As numbering started at, say, PUL 0000 the PUL 10499 would be the highest number...
... But how did Chicago and any other possible such places arrange such manual numbers when the metro area was still pre-dial, 100% manual? Was there a "0"...
Mark: Yes, there was a line 0 before diallable prefixes, yielding Pullman 0 through 10499, for example. I don't think it was usually assigned, at least to a...
The old CO SF11 at 1145 Larkin (Larkin & Bush) and the older CO building behind at 1333 Bush are now the Dr. William L. Gee House of OnLok and provides housing...
BRonxville 2 apparently became DEerfield 7 (c. 1960?), while TUckahoe 3 numbers were changed to SPencer 9 and SWiftwater 3. At some point these two central...
FYI: MICHAEL RAVIS Michael F. Ravis, 55, of Las Vegas, died May 10, 2007. He is survived by his parents, Marvin A. and Florence B.; and his partner, Roger...
I did a little checking from my own files collected over the years. I have pages from the following directories : Nassau County 1950 Brooklyn 1955 Manhattan...
The introductory pages of the 1946 Philadelphia phone book - the first one issued after 2L-5N dialing was introduced (July 5, 1946) thoughtfully included a...
I have that same page plus the corresponding one in the 1954 directory, as well as an alphabetical and numerical listing of local offices in the 215 area code...
The San Francisco Genealogy site has just what the doctor ordered. Go to http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/1893t/t93text.htm and you'll find both text and images...
Thanks Gwillim! I've forwarded your response on to Steve. Robert _____ From: TENproject@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TENproject@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
I recently aquired some old Eureka telephone books and some for Mendota. Mendota is Illinois Commercial Telephone Company (later GTE of Illinois, now...
Oops, forgot to mention in the second paragraph, when they went to local dial Mendota had both 4 and 5 digit numbers. Charlie ... From: Charles Fregeau To:...
For the four and five digit numbers beginning with "2", look at the rest of the number. You will probably see that they do not conflict. An example would be:...
... I understand that J, W, M, and R were common on 4-way party lines, but why an extra X for Eureka? And why K, L, X, and Y for Mendota? ... I have a copy...
It looks like the pattern in Mendota in 1961 is the following: 20xx 21xx 22xx 23xx 24xx 2-5xxx 2-6xxx 27xx 28xx 29xx There are 5xxx and 6xxx numbers, among...
My guess is that there were some additional selectors placed between the second selectors and the connectors in Mendota. For example 25xx became 2-5xxx and...
I told you I've not finished the analysis yet. I've seen 3xxx, 4xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx and 8xxx so far in 4 digits, besides the 2xxx patterns.. I'm working my way...
