Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!xanth!ginosko!rex!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ceb@csli.stanford.edu (Charles Buckley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Non-dialable Points Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 89 01:26:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 35 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 280, message 3 of 7 From: gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Date: 6 Aug 89 20:59:16 GMT Organization: Columbia University Recently it was mentioned that there are thousands of non-dialable points left in California. Just out of curiosity... I remember about 6 years ago when I was in the habit of getting up early and watching one of those morning news programs where the weather, feature articles and good-natured banter took longer than the news portions . . . One feature article on said program was about the introduction of dial service in some out of the way place east of Eastern Pennsylvania but west of Ohio, and south of the great Lakes but north of Tennessee - I remember seeing it on the drawn map, but cannot remember the political entity. Anyway, as you might have guessed, this made the program because it was given to be the *last* manual exchange in the US. Therefore, someone has their facts wrong (could well be the news agency). [Moderator's Note: Every so often, a program or news story says 'this is the last one'....there was supposed to be one in Maine a few years ago which was the last, and the subscribers were *resisting* the change, for nostalgic reasons among others. The original poster contended '...there are thousands of them left....especially in California....' and I am hoping he will write again soon, and name a dozen or so. The last one I knew of in California was the town of Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island. It cut to dial several years ago. Prior to the conversion, William Wrigley, the chewing gum magnate and former owner of the Chicago Cubs, had an estate in Avalon. The phone number was Avalan 400. He also had Avalan 401. Both were non-published numbers, of course. PT]