I was just at the database and looked up Chicago 237 and it says Belvidere 7 in Chicago BElvedere may have been BElmont 5 and 237 would have been BErkshire 7 ...
Hi, This may sound like a silly question, but if I have a zero after the exchange letters, is it called an "oh" or is that too confusing? Is there a protocol...
In a message dated Sat 10 Jan 2004 2348:23 Central Standard Time, ... In the days of named exchanges, the telephone directory had a large (about half-page)...
(In my capacity as a purist, I cannot see why anyone would say O in lieu of 0. O is one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet; 0 is one of the ten...
PLEASE tell me this is sarcasm....it has to be....I'm just not used to seeing sarcasm on this board :-) Or else....you guys need to get a grip!! Actually,...
Zero is a number. "O" is a letter. You dial Zero for the Operator, not the letter "O". If you use the letter, you're dialing the digit 6 which puts you in...
Zero is a number. "O" is a letter.You dial Zero for the Operator, not the letter "O". If you use theletter, you're dialing the digit 6 which puts you in limbo....
Hello All, What a wonderful project! I'm wondering if anyone has any information on what the exchanges might have been in 1940 for San Francisco, Oakland and...
Hello all. Anyone know where these exchange names are from, and the area codes? JOrdan 7- 2796 Please Wait For Dial Tone SHadyside 7- 3418 Boyertown 7-0141 ...
Mike, SHadyside 7- is Red Bank, New Jersey after the dial conversion. SHadyside 1 was added. REd bank 6- is the same exchange when it was manual. No. ...
To Tom Rollo, and everyone else. I need to know for my ongoing project where ALL these exchange names are from, (city and state), and the area codes! Thanks so...
Mike -- you can obtain the area codes yourself for the ones Tom gave you. People will give you the information if they have it. I just caution you against...
Neil, how do you obtain the area codes? I have a area code list, but it does not go with exchange names. I am not trying to be pushy. Sorry if I sounded...
Mike -- here are a couple of sources to try: http://www.hwcn.org/Information/NEST/technol/communic/lca/ http://www.melissadata.com Good luck with your search. ...
Tom. Thanks for helping!! Blessings, Mike thomas.rollo@... wrote: Mike, SHadyside 7- is Red Bank, New Jersey after the dial conversion. SHadyside 1 was...
Raymond, sorry I dont know what cities the prefixes are from. These are the last of my Western Electric Dial Centers, and it is my "project" to find out where...
Hugh Hamilton will know. Tom Rollo Milwaukee ... it ... The old time number was ULrich 8900. What I have in the listings are... NATIONAL WEATHER INSTITUTE,...
I'm from Baltimore and remeber using exchange names. Around here, the exchanges were also used to mark an area of town. For example; I lived in an area known...
In a message dated Thu 12 Feb 2004 1124:59 Central Standard Time, ... Now that's really interesting. The only royal family I know of with the surname Windsor...
The weather recording was and I believe still is (213) 554 1212. It never had a lettered prefix. The time announcement was ULrich 3-1212, changed from ULrich...
Anyone know GTE had it's own numbers for weather, etc? From the Los Angeles Exchange thread, it seemed I was calling that exchange for time. Also, on the main...
Does anyone have any idea about which fonts were used for Exchange names/number on dial centers. It appears that the EXname/first number is printed on most...
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