That's a 'cool' web site!!

The scary part is my old exchange, "EMpire"  was listed with another city I
worked in for 1 summer in 1968.  What does that mean?  :)

What a coincidence!

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wonsil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Everything you wanted to know about Named
Exchanges


In true Atmarian style, here is the link that says it all:

The Telephone EXchange Name Project
Telephone numbers used to begin with two letters, which were an abbreviation
for a word. For example, there was a Glenn Miller song called PEnnsylvania
6-5000, and Liz Taylor made a movie called BUtterfield-8. I'm just barely
old enough to remember that my phone number at home when I was 5 or so
started with SYcamore 4, or SY4. These were telephone exchanges, and had
exchange names -- PEnnsylvania, SYcamore, KLondike, etc.

So, one day I got interested in finding a list of the old exchange names.
Since they were used so widely around the country, I assummed that there
would be a master list somewhere, that shouldn't be too hard to find. It
turned out to be very hard to find, but in response to this project Mark
Cuccia, a real expert on the subject of exchange names, sent it to me. This
project is an attempt to assemble information about exchange names from a
lot of widely spread original sources.

http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html

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