Here's hoping that one of the group's historical New York numbering buffs can answer this one. I actually went searching the various data I have in response...
... Correction to that: On double checking the list again I've found that today's 212-288, 212-734, and 212-744, all served out of East 79th St., appear to...
... Much as certain exchange names in London were familiar to many while others were lesser known outside the local neighborhood. A few dummy names which...
Dear Paul, MUrray Hill exchanges still serve East Midtown and CIrcle 5-6- and 7- are in west Midtown, more or less south of Columbus Circle. The phone numbers...
... Many thanks for the information Steph. I noticed that several 212-75x prefixes are listed today out of East 56th St., and guessed that they were probably...
... Funnily enough I just heard from the original person who was asking about the phone numbers and she pointed out that the 600s on E. 68th would be in the...
It was a dummy address, just like they were dummy numbers. I think the writers were just trying to give a general Manhattan feeling to the show, because at ...
Hi Paul, That reminds me of a line in the Chuck Berry song, "Promised Land". In the last verse, Chuck sings, "Operator, give me Norfolk, Virginia, TIdewater...
I just did some more digging around and found this 1966 local calling guide, which is for the Rockaway area but includes a list of Manhattan offices: ...
First of all, as mentioned, there is no 600 block of East 68th Street. The 500 block is New York Hospital and Rockefeller University, and the 600 block would...
We had a similar switch in 1948 when Chicago went from 3-4 to 2-5. LONgbeach became LOngbeach 1 for some reason. COMmodore became COmmodore 4. Charlie ... ...
I've got a couple of exchange lists of New York from the fifties which I will post as soon as I get a chance (I'm having a very busy season) AG 9 was a...
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... I can't recall who scanned this originally in another group, but here's the list of Chicago changes added to the TENproject files area for reference: ...
... It does indeed, thanks. So East 68th St. was/is served out of the E. 79th St. office then. I'm assuming that being the original dial prefix there were...
... I assume this would have been panel offices at that time? In slightly later times London, which was SxS with directors, had a couple of prefixes "doubled...
In the 1950s and 1960s all exchanges served out of East 79th Street (BUtterfield 8, LEhigh 5, REgent 4, REgent 7, RHinelander 4, TRafalgar 9, AG 9, NA 8)...
Re the origin of the CIrcle exchange, I agree with you that Columbus Circle was the "inspiration" for the exchange name, although I have no hard data to back...
... Interesting that many NYC exchange names were not on the "suggested/ approved" Bell System names. Boston (HANcock, HUBbard, COPley and others) and...
... A quick search trying to link the name with New York reveals that there is a Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, although it's Greenwich Village, not...
There was also, very briefly, a LYceum 6 in this area (LYceum 5 being on the other side of Central Park). But it was dropped after one or two years (ANC 596...
You've hit a sensitive nerve, since I still have a LYnbrook 3- phone number. About 1960 they opened up a new exchange LX 4- in the West 30s — Penn Station...
... Was the town served by a SxS office? If so, then with digit absorption it may well have been the case that the 6 level on the first selector went into the...
... data I ... Hello, Paul and everyone: East 68th Street is served by the 79th-Street office (New York City M- 79), using the following prefixes: 212 249 (AG...
I don't have a list for 1916, but here three lists for Manhattan and the Bronx. (The word 'exchange' wasn't used in asking for a number; one would have asked...
As promised, I've scanned and downloaded exchange lists and an area map from various New York directories from 1929 and the fifties and early sixties and two...
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