Re: Telephone Number Songs

"Lumpy" <lumpy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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
>
> You Played on Lawrence Welk?
> Yes but no blue notes. Just blue hairs.
>
> www.LumpyMusic.com

In Montreal (Canada), my father's work number was GLenview 5711 (and you 
asked the operator for extension 414 ("414, please")). Sometime in the
50's 
it was changed to WEllington 7-5711 (and then 937-5711). Likewise - his
home 
phone was originally on the ELwood exchange; which became HUnter 6-; and 
then 486- (which he still has).

(I had a friend named Elwood, and we would keep calling him "Hunter 6").

hb.