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[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Have you ever lifted the reciever of one of those phones? Still, I miss real phones.

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

Any idea what year this is? I'm guessing late 20s. I miss the old 'exchanges' (prefixes, like Butterfield 8) that were based on names, presumably having something to do with the neighborhood being served. When I was in NYC I had both GRamercy and PLaza exchanges. Nobody called them that anymore but the numbers still reflected the letters/names. I grew up in a FAirfax exchange in another city and never knew who or what Fairfax was in that case.

[alohawolf.livejournal.com]

Early 30's.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

My mother grew up in Northford, Connecticut, and her exchange was HUbbard 4-something.

Currently, my roommate is holding onto his GRamercy phone number and I have a CAnal exchange. Even though I have a cell, I think it's unwise to lose my home phone if I can afford to keep it. (And it's Vonage, not even a land line anymore.)

(BTW, I really want that phone.)

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Fairfax? In LA? There is an exchange on Fairfax Avenue....

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

In Buffalo the exchange names were very bland, British sounding like "AMherst, WIndsor, ULster, OXford, NOrth, PArkside, WAshington, etc

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

It was a city in NE Ohio and like Buffalo has many Anglo/British place names (the ones that aren't the few leftovers from Native culture).

[alohawolf.livejournal.com]

Automatic Electric 34

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Manufactured in Chicago, Illinois. This was THE device for General Telephone, so very common in Los Angeles...... ah, a "dial arrangement" How advanced!

[chamisa.livejournal.com]

Aw man I want one of those! I have a small telephone collection--one is a 'candlestick' phone with the separate bell box--and this ad is right, the phone that eliminated that really was an innovation and takes up a lot less space.

My icon is another of my phones. It still has its original telephone number on the dial, CHestnut 5-2136. I have another phone with its original number, HEmlock 474. (I just love that it's Hemlock!) The candlestick phone also has its original number, but I can't remember what it is right now.