Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!ames!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: das@cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Tokyo goes to 8 digits Message-ID: Date: 11 Jul 89 22:47:37 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: David Smallberg Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 232, message 7 of 12 In article the moderator writes: > >[Moderator's Note: An example of the complete opposite of the 213/818 >situation described by Mr. Gast is in metropolitan Kansas City, MO/KS. An >inquiry can be directed to either 816-555-1212 or 913-555-1212 with equal >results. Call either one; get information on either side of the river. PT] Either side of the river. Feh! How about the ocean: At least through the early 1970's, information calls for Hawaii (808-555-1212) actually went to Granada Hills, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley). Friends were amused by the following: Me: [dial 808-555-1212] Operator: What island, please? Me: I'd like the number of the Shakey's Pizza at Reseda and Devonshire. [The Shakey's was near the phone company office, and the operators were sure to know it.] Operator: Uh, you should really dial 411 for that. Me: Oh, sorry. Could you look it up anyway, please? Operator: Well, all right ... that number is XXX-XXXX. The story I heard was that the weather in Honolulu was posted in the office, since so many callers would ask "How's the weather out there?" I also had heard that Alaska information was handled in or near Seattle and Carribean islands in Florida. I don't know what the situation is today. -- David Smallberg, das@cs.ucla.edu, ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!das