I'm a newbie in this group. The reason I joined is that I have some old telephone books. I've sold one of them, and I wanted to put the exchange names into ...
We've had several new members join recently, so maybe this is a good time for everyone to introduce themselves and tell us a little about why you're here? Hi,...
I am here because the number back in the older days were easier to remember. The numbers should revert back to the letters and numbers again. Vanessa ...
Hi Robert, As I previously stated, "a friend from another group posted a message about this site. I'm so glad that someone is doing something to preserve...
My name is Jeff, and beside working on a few personal writing projects, I've had an interest in archaic technologies for a long time. Restored a few old...
In a message dated 7/5/04 4:08:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, luv2pla92346@... writes: grew up in a three-flat on the far south side of Chicago in the ...
I'm Raymond Burke, and I have an interest in telephone history, and do research in it. I had the odd hobby of playing with the telephone when I was growing up...
Thank you for the welcome. I don't have much to contribute to the site but I'll be checking in now and then. Another memory of days gone by was that of having...
... you're here? All right, since you asked: I started collecting telephone books back in the 1950s. I've always liked to be able to look things up, and...
In a message dated Tue 6 Jul 2004 1755:10 Central Daylight Time, ... First there were the Scots: They kept the Sabbath, and anything else they could get their...
... Well, I'm Bruce. Like many of the others in this group, I remember the days when all phone numbers had a named exchange, and I can even remember some of my...
"WAlker 5 was in lower Manhattan, and nowhere else!). I really don't like having to memorize 10-digit strings of numbers, and I wish we could go back to the...
My name is Bill Travers. I grew up in New Castle, PA, north of Pittsburgh and east of Youngstown, OH. I lived for 28 years in the Buffalo-Rochester area of...
Neil Stewart here, in Hamilton, OH. Got interested in the telephone network and switching at an early age but also how phone numbers used names at one time, ...
My name is Bill Travers. I grew up in New Castle, PA, north of Pittsburgh and east of Youngstown, OH. I lived for 28 years in the Buffalo-Rochester area of...
Dear Vanessa, Buffalo, NY, was a unique large city. In New York (and only New York as I can tell), New York Telephone decided to give some of it's exchanges,...
In a message dated Wed 7 Jul 2004 0923:24 Central Daylight Time, ... Another case of the all-too-often-seen-today lack of customer service. Many companies seem...
Buffalo, NY, was a unique large city. In New York (and only New York as I can tell), New York Telephone decided to give some of it's exchanges, two letters...
I have most of the exchanges in the 716 area code plus the other area codes in New York. I have the complete conversions for the large cities (over 100,000)...
... I'm Kevin Gilhooly, and one of the list of things that lead me to this list was exactly like the question above. My son (who was five or six at the time)...
What HEmlock prefixes were used in Albany, NY ? Where were they located in the city ? At what time did the HEmlock prefixes begin ? Interestingly, Albany,...
I need to spend more time in Albany, NY, for research. This is what I have so far. I need to find the old phone books or the newspaper ad when the changeover...
... Actually, I suppose that before the 1930s it was WALker. But they went from 3-letter prefixes to 2-letter and 1-digit ones in the early 1930s in NYC...
Bill, I have a friend whose mother grew up in Medina, NY and remembers her phone number being "three eights and a J 2"... Must have been manual, huh? ... ...
(Try 997, for example. ... That is why I do not like exchanges like 997, 555,999 and so on. There is no real meaning to those. Even those like 209, 218 the...
Bill, I have a friend whose mother grew up in Medina, NY and remembers her phone number being "three eights and a J 2"... ... The number now is that dreadful...
Neil, My first wife and I only lived in Lockport for about a year. I was a teacher at Royalton-Hartland Central School from 1965 to 1978. We moved to ...
Vanessa, Another weird thing is that they just split the 716 area code a couple of years ago. Medina is next to Middleport, where I lived for about 20 years....
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