Ours was ALpine4-5506, and if you dial that today you will still get me.
Before that was 70-W, we had a 4 party line.  To get another # on your line
you asked the REAL LIVE OPERATOR for the letter "on this line" and she'd
ring that letter on your line.  I remember going to a town way up north,
Sheldon I think, and calling a friend's house, the operator told me she had
just walked past on her way to the store but when she came back by she'd
tell her I had called. I thanked her and headed to the friend's house.  Ruth



At 8:50 AM -0500 2/28/08, Becker, Dan wrote:
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>> Penslylvania 6 -5000......
>
>Here's a demographic test for the gerontology factor of BP: who here
>ever had a phone number that included the exchange name? What was it?
>
>In the days when I spent my free time punching my little brother in the
>arm I resided at "Twinbrook 3-" otherwise known as 893-.
>
>dan back when dialing a phone number meant what it said becker
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Ruth Barton
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