Re: Telephone Number Songs

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:20:33 -0400, Ken Whiton
<kenwhiton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>*-* On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, at 10:05:17 -0500,
>*-* In Article f06n64dsmlr3vbu99g7iq6sfup7dan5184@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>*-* Tom Simon wrote
>*-* About Re: Telephone Number Songs
>
>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:42:50 +0900, "BobbyM"
>> <masseybNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> Songs with telephone numbers in the title:
>
>>> Marvelettes:  Beechwood 4-5789
>>> Wilson Pickett:  634-5789
>>> Tommy Tutone:  867-5309/Jenny
>>> ?
>
>> Does anyone remember telephone exchanges?
>
>      Yes.  I'll go you one better.  I remember when my hometown first
>got an exchange, that is, when it upgraded from operators to dial.
>The exchange was "WAlnut", which became "92" years later, when named
>exchanges were dropped in favor of all numbers.
>
>>                                           In the telephone number
>> Beechwood 4-5789, the exchange would be Beechwood.
>
>      And numerically it would be 234-5789.
>
>                                          Ken Whiton
>

I remember when there were no exchanges where I grew up.  The numbers
were all 4-5789 format.  It was around mid-fifties when the exchange
letters were added in my town.

Jim Colegrove
www.lostcountry.com