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Hello - I need "your expertise" on a question. I have a New York Business Directory from 1958. In this directory, I noticed that some numbers can be listed two...
... If by "New York", you mean New York City, by 1958, if I remember right, the five boroughs were fully dial. And someone not capitalizing or "bolding" the...
Thank you very much for your answer!! I did mean New York City and I just used the UNion exchange as an example with no link to the New York City exchanges of...
... There was a similar "stylization" or simple misuse here in England too. London was 3L-4N, so it was normal to display numbers as HOLborn 1234 or MAYfair...
... It would be interesting to see which exchange names were in use on both sides of the pond. I know for instance that MAyfair was a legitimate exchange name...
... And there were a handful of other major metro areas in England and Scotlaned with 3L-4N numbering as well as London: Birmingham Edinburgh (Scotland) ...
... And also note that Terre Haue IN is VeriZon-formerly-GT&E! I wonder if having been General Telephone, NOT "Bell", had something to do with being 1L-4N for...
... Paris also had exchange names beginning with the letter "O" such as OPEra. That might not seem odd from an American perspective, but just like British...
... I have a PDF document which lists all the exchange names used in the London director area over the years, right up to the change to All-Figure Numbering in...
... Sometime in the early to mid 1960s, Paris France was going to all numeric seven-digit numbers, from the previous 3L-4N numbers. There was a list of some...
... That might have been what I had in mind rather than "Q" as the first letter of an exchange name. British dials also had "Q" added to the zero in the 1960s,...
... Specifically, for many years the ones which were most widely known would probably be: 100 Operator (general assistance) 123 "Speaking clock" 151...
Rock Hill, South Carolina, (Rock Hill Telephone Co.) had a mixture of 5N and 6N numbers through the early 1970's. 327 and 328 exchanges could be dialed with...
... Also not available by DDD either. You had to go through the operator who I believe could direct "key pulse" or dial the number and didn't require that you...
... Sounds like it was a classic Strowger SxS office which had digit absorption added to allow for the adoption of the uniform 7D numbering plan. The 7 and 8...
... One possible reason is that in French, the word for Operator is "telephoniste", so there was no linguistic "Dial 0 for Operator" connection. -- Frank...
... Ann Arbor, Michigan had this same arrangement well into the 1960s with their SxS switches. On the NOrmandy exchanges, the "6" was absorbed, so you could...
... Of interest is that I lived in the greater Portland, Maine area and for many years up til 1963 and the introduction of two #5XB offices locally in Portland...
... Larry, it was the same here in GTE of Ohio until the last step office went digital in 1998. I'm an equipment installer and can't begin to remember the...
... Here is the full list for London, with dates where known: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/paulcoxwell/TEL/LondonDirector.pdf I've been trying to get this into...
... If 6 was an "AR" (Absorbed Repeatedly) digit, how was there a NOrmandy 6 prefix? ... That's an interesting one, for sure. The 2, 4, 5, and 9 levels on the...
... In just about any large town/city with multiple exchanges, the full directory number needed to be dialed, whether six or seven digits, i.e., 2L-4N or...
... I'm only taking a guess here that it's possible that there were mixed length exchanges in the New York area and I'm also kind of thinking that you needed...
In 1940s Brooklyn, you would have dialed the two letters and the five numbers -- seven pulls of the dial in all. Here are some Brooklyn-specific examples: ...
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