[PRCo] Re: Telephone Exchanges

[Herb Brannon]

Anyone over the age of 50 could probably help. You can also look at today's phone numbers and see the first three digits (not counting the area code) . Look on the keypad of a telephone and you can usually figure out the exchange. For instance when I was a little kid our telephone number was JEfferson 8442. In the mid-1950s the third digit was added to the exchange in order to allow more phones to be installed. JEfferson then became JEfferson 5. Our number was then JE 5-8442. Today, of course, that would be 535-8442.
robert simpson <bobs at pacbell.net> 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

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Herb Brannon