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Thoughts on 817 helmets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Virginia Frog" data-source="post: 3184748" data-attributes="member: 4959"><p>In the '60s my family # was TEmple, my friend across the street was OVerlook, and neighbors down the street was KIng. So the "physical exchange(s)" must have been only quasi-geographic. In later years, the '70s, my brother ran a business from the basement - a youth entrepreneur - and had phones with all three of these sequences.</p><p></p><p>In an article I found:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61116/why-did-old-phone-numbers-start-letters[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"Because these telephone exchanges <strong>could only facilitate around 10,000 subscribers</strong>, many large cities had <strong>multiple hubs</strong>."</p><p></p><p>Also, regarding the alphabetic prefix: "Full words were used in order to <strong>help customers remember</strong> the telephone exchange name, and because they were <strong>easy to understand, especially for switchboard operators</strong>."</p><p></p><p>It was around 1990 when Northern Virginia/DC area added the area code as a component of the local number. Then you had to dial 1 first to differentiate toll/long distance calls. I imagine that was phased-in around the country.</p><p></p><p>At that time, Virginia Frog was quoted on the front page of the "Washington Post" about the consumer behavior of dialing 10 digits vs. 7. I guess that was my "15 minutes of fame!"<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virginia Frog, post: 3184748, member: 4959"] In the '60s my family # was TEmple, my friend across the street was OVerlook, and neighbors down the street was KIng. So the "physical exchange(s)" must have been only quasi-geographic. In later years, the '70s, my brother ran a business from the basement - a youth entrepreneur - and had phones with all three of these sequences. In an article I found: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61116/why-did-old-phone-numbers-start-letters[/URL] "Because these telephone exchanges [B]could only facilitate around 10,000 subscribers[/B], many large cities had [B]multiple hubs[/B]." Also, regarding the alphabetic prefix: "Full words were used in order to [B]help customers remember[/B] the telephone exchange name, and because they were [B]easy to understand, especially for switchboard operators[/B]." It was around 1990 when Northern Virginia/DC area added the area code as a component of the local number. Then you had to dial 1 first to differentiate toll/long distance calls. I imagine that was phased-in around the country. At that time, Virginia Frog was quoted on the front page of the "Washington Post" about the consumer behavior of dialing 10 digits vs. 7. I guess that was my "15 minutes of fame!":) [/QUOTE]
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