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...
Jay; You are right that the last four digits were stamped on the dial center. There was a stamping device used that was similar to the stamp that is used to...
In former times, did the total area covered by a given central office have to be smaller than it is today, for some technological reason? For example, there...
Usually activity like this, sometimes referred to as area transfers, were the result of a dial conversion from manual. After two or more COs were combined,...
... transfers, were the result of a dial conversion from manual. After two or more COs were combined, the result was all dial. A larger dial CO concentrates...
Recently some additions were made to the database, listing most (but I have reason to suspect, not all) of the manual offices that existed on Staten Island in...
... the ... Is ... Very cool site- love it! I saw this message and thought I'd drop a line. A local area code here is 209. It was recently broken up, and of...
Thanks! Coincidentally, my sister lives in Turlock. Robert -- Robert Crowe Telephone Exchange Name Project http://www.ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html...
Technically, the "0" in an all-numeric telephone number is a "zero", but I guess you can call it anything you want, as long as the other person understands you...
Hi, Raymond: 'O' was NOT omitted from the British and French dials. It was located in the '0' (zero) position. The British dial was originally marked 'O0'...
Hi Hugh; Thanks for correcting me, I just rememberd seeing "MN" at the "6" position - guess I did not look to close at zero ! Sounds like a more logical way to...
... Interestingly enough, in the play/movie "Bells Are Ringing," the answering service operator falls in love with a subscriber whose telephone number is...
I'm in a show of "Room Service" and my character says to call his mother at "Oswego two six ring four." What does "ring" mean? I can only figure out 5 digits...
In a message dated 3/10/04 9:31:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, nathanagin@... writes: "Oswego two six ring four." manual service on magneto rural party...
His mother, whose telephone is in the Oswego exchange on a multi-party line, number 26, will respond to four rings on that line (as opposed to the other people...
This would probably be an eight-party line with each subscriber responding to a different ring pattern. My aunt and uncle were Benton 34 ring two, e.g. but you...
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