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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:26:11 GMT
- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: 19th Century Phone Numbers
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- I recently looked at some issues of the {Columbia Daily Spectator}
- (our campus paper) from the 1890's. I noticed that some of the ads
- for local businesses had phone numbers such as 178 Morningside.
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- Was it common in the 19th century manual exchanges to put the exchange
- name at the end? When I looked at issues from about 1920 or
- thereabouts, the numbers were in the form of Morningside XXXX.
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- Does anyone know the history of phone numbers in New York? Obviously
- at some point an extra digit had to get in there. Anyone know when
- this happened?
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- Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
- N2GPZ in ham radio circles 72355,1226 on CI$
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