Re: Telephone Number Songs

*-* On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, at 09:04:34 -0500,
*-* In Article 40np64d727n4uk8lqnej9qkf0vpf6ihea9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Jim Colegrove wrote
*-* About Re: Telephone Number Songs

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

>> *-* Tom Simon wrote

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>>> 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.

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> 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.

      It was sometime in the early or mid 50s when my hometown
converted from operators to dial, with the 7-character "numbers" right
from the beginning of our dial system.

                                          Ken Whiton

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