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old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
ChiTownJim
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Date: August 02, 2014 10:47AM
What word (exchange?) would be used for a 772 prefix? I read your article on old phone numbers but didn't see it listed.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
b.a.hoarder
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Date: August 02, 2014 11:21AM
From a list seen here-
and your old exchange would have been Prescott or Prospect. The Garfield Ridge area where I lived had Ludlow, Portsmouth and Reliance exchanges as I recall.
and your old exchange would have been Prescott or Prospect. The Garfield Ridge area where I lived had Ludlow, Portsmouth and Reliance exchanges as I recall.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: August 02, 2014 06:18PM
Mine use to be Albany 2... I still can remember my first phone number.
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Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: August 02, 2014 09:00PM
When I was a kid ours was [b]BR[/b]iargate 4. We took it with us when we moved a few blocks away and my parents had it until they retired and moved out of the neighborhood. The common ones in our area where [b]AR[/b]dmore 1, [b]LO[/b]ngbeah 1, [b]RA[/b]venswood 8, [b]HO[/b]llycourt 5, and [b]RO[/b]gers Park 4. I remember an occasional [b]BI[/b]ttersweet and [b]UP[/b]town as well. I always wondered what the location scheme was. They seem to be area specific, but why didn't everyone on the same block have the same exchange?
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
Dunning1
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Date: August 04, 2014 05:32PM
A lot of it had to do with time....I believe numbers with different exchanges were given out over time, and then some of the older numbers were reused. I still have the same PALlisade telephone number that my parents first got in 1953! I can even remember my grandfather's store number, MONroe1466, and our old family doctor's number, CAPitol 7570.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: August 05, 2014 08:05PM
A lot of people in Hyde Park still have the old phones from that era - I have one that came with my apartment which has the old exchange listed. My mom tried to call "the phone company" back in the day and called from our neighbors who still only had that on their phone.. Poor Ernestine didn't have a good day with that.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
Rustymuscle
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Date: August 06, 2014 11:48AM
772 would have been SPaulding 2. S=7. P=7.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
Mr Downtown
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Date: August 06, 2014 12:35PM
b.a.hoarder Wrote:
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> your old exchange would have been Prescott or
> Prospect.
In Chicago, PRescott only had 9 as the third digit; PRospect only had 6 and 8.
SPaulding 2 was on the North Side.
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> your old exchange would have been Prescott or
> Prospect.
In Chicago, PRescott only had 9 as the third digit; PRospect only had 6 and 8.
SPaulding 2 was on the North Side.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
mikbasile
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Date: August 12, 2014 10:52PM
Hudson 3 2700,,,,,,,, do any of you folks remember that one?
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Posted by:
PKDickman
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Date: August 12, 2014 11:02PM
mikbasile Wrote:
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> Hudson 3 2700,,,,,,,, do any of you folks remember
> that one?
That is Bouschelle carpet cleaning.
They are still in business out in Stone Park and still have the same number.
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> Hudson 3 2700,,,,,,,, do any of you folks remember
> that one?
That is Bouschelle carpet cleaning.
They are still in business out in Stone Park and still have the same number.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
Kool Kat
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Date: August 20, 2014 02:58AM
Ours was DI(versey)-8-5442. I still remember that from the 50's. We lived in Lincoln Park at that time, on Fremont Street near Belden.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2014 02:59AM by Kool Kat.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2014 02:59AM by Kool Kat.
Re: old telephone prefixes
Posted by:
Dunning1
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Date: August 20, 2014 01:30PM
Heh, I still have the same telephone number that my parents got in 1953, and if you think that's nuts, I still have the same license plate number that my grandfather originally got on his 1928 Hupmobile. The plate went to my father in 1940, and then when he passed away, I got the number reassigned in 1996. When I eventually buy an old car, I will be able to put a plate on the car from the year it was manufactured that will register back to me. I have all of the old plates back to 1940!
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Posted by:
Wallergirl
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Date: August 30, 2014 10:13AM
We were a MIchigan 2 number, a northside prefix, but somehow often got wrong numbers for a southside walgreens. They might have been MIdway 3 with the same 4digits as ours. My first all-number phone was 66x-6x66....always thought it was a good thing i didn't lisp.
