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Subject: Old Telephone Numbers
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: michael1776-ga
List Price: $10.00

Posted: 08 Dec 2005 15:52 PST
Expires: 07 Jan 2006 15:52 PST
Question ID: 603410

A long time ago telephone numbers were listed and requested by a
phrase denoting a particular "exchange" and a short number such as
"Butternut 55255".  I am looking for a source of such listings, or
specifically examples of such listings for the New York area circa
1925.

Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 08 Dec 2005 17:54 PST

Michael1776,

There's a list of New York City telephone exchanges here:
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/englewood.nj.1951.dialing

And here: 

New York Telephone Exchange Names
http://www.eckers.com/pages/exchange.html


Would these listings meet your needs?


Bobbie7

Clarification of Question by michael1776-ga on 08 Dec 2005 18:39 PST
bobbie7

Yes!

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Subject: Re: Old Telephone Numbers
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 08 Dec 2005 18:53 PST
Rated: 5 out of 5 stars

Dear Michael1776,

I'm pleased the information I provided meets your needs.


I am reposting the material below to make it official.


New York City telephone exchanges:
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/englewood.nj.1951.dialing

And here: 

New York Telephone Exchange Names
http://www.eckers.com/pages/exchange.html


Search terms:
New York city exchanges + telephone


Best regards, 
Bobbie7

michael1776-ga rated this answer: 5 out of 5 stars

Quick response and exactly what I needed.

Comments

Subject: Re: Old Telephone Numbers
From: scriptor-ga on 08 Dec 2005 16:07 PST

This may be helpful:
http://www.ourwebhome.com/tenp/tenproject.html

Scriptor

Subject: Re: Old Telephone Numbers
From: pinkfreud-ga on 08 Dec 2005 16:18 PST

On the same site suggested by Scriptor, here's a list of telephone
exchange names from 1955:

http://www.ourwebhome.com/TENP/Recommended.html

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