[PRCo] Re: Telephone Exchanges

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Mon Sep 10 20:00:35 EDT 2007


Part of the North Side was FAirfax.   That included my grandmother's  
phone off Perrysville Avenue near Riverview Park.  Part of Penn Hills  
was SYcamore ... my old neighborhood in the 1940s.

On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:08 PM, robert simpson wrote:

> Off topic request....
>
>   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
>
>> .
>> 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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