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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Re: phone-number taxonomy
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 16:13:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 16:13:00 1984
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You guys are all too young.  When I was a kid, my grandparents
number was AL-5007 (for ALleghany).  That was in Philadelphia,
PA, not a small town.  Later it became AL-4-5007, which isn't
short for ALL.  My gp's didn't live long enough to see all-number
phone numbers.  Also, I don't remember my own phone #'s from that
era (WWII), but I remember 6 characters in Baltimore too.
So I hypothesize that exchanges were 2 characters then.
(By the way - in Newport, RI, in the mid to late 50's, you could
omit the exchange (VI, later VI-7) and dial just the 4 digits.)