[PRCo] Re: Telephone Exchanges

[Fred Schneider]

Does Donora still have a 37 exchange or was it by chance changed to  
78 for RUsty or perhaps 26 for COrroded or perhaps 84 for Temperature  
Inversion?    I'm sorry Jerry, but I'm on a grisly roll tonight.

On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Jerry Matt Matsick wrote:

> Robert
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> Donora, Pa, (former home of  the Jones Low Floor Street cars)    
> Back in the mid  1950's Donorahad a Exchange naming contest, and  
> FRontier won out, as we were having Old West Days and Rodeos at the  
> old DHS Stadium,  They had the celebration for a number of years  
> before declining population cancelled the celebration out.   
> Charleroi, Pa was HUdson, Monongahela was BLackburn and don't know  
> why?
>
> Jerry "Matt" Matsick
> Jacksonville
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>> From: robert simpson <bobs at pacbell.net>
>> Date: 2007/09/10 Mon PM 06:08:47 EST
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Telephone Exchanges
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>> Off topic request....
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>>   Anyone know a source of old telephone exchange names when they  
>> used the first two letters of a name followed by the number?
>>
>>   Robert Simpson
>>   from Krazy California
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>>> .
>>> Get your rugs cleaned at Roth -- Emerson 2-2800 (Zeros pronounced as
>>> Ohs! in this TV Jingle which I can Still Recite To This Day -- Are
>>> they still in Beezness?~!~?)
>>> .
>>>
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