Re: Telephone Number Songs

Ken Whiton wrote:
  [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 LA where I grew up, we had two phone numbers
for our business. One was
ATlantic 7-1640
the other was
***berland 3-9527

We used the AT number when calling/receiving
around San Gabriel and points east. The CU
number was for central LA. It was two separate,
black bakelite dial phones. If we used the wrong
phone it would cost us toll charges.

Note that the prefixes AT and CU are both the
same numbers "28". But the billing was still
tied to the alpha exchanges AT or CU.

Lumpy

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