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[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Gladstone 1-0540

 

[tjmangum]

EDison1-4282 (331-4282) was my home number growing up just south of Chicago.
T

 

[fronobulax]

867-5309

 

[adorshki]

867-5309

:lol:
Reminds me that out here in Santa Cara county you could identify what town a given number was in by some prefixes for quite a while, up through about the mid-80's.
"867" was the universal prefix for the town of Saratoga and when that tune came out some poor soul had to get their number changed after a few hundred "experimental" calls.
Anybody what the remember the dear departed "POP-CORN" connected to?

 

[dapmdave]

867-5309

:lol:
Reminds me that out here in Santa Cara county you could identify what town a given number was in by some prefixes for quite a while, up through about the mid-80's.
"867" was the universal prefix for the town of Saratoga and when that tune came out some poor soul had to get their number changed after a few hundred "experimental" calls.
Anybody what the remember the dear departed "POP-CORN" connected to?

Wasn't that Jenny's number?

Dave

 

[adorshki]

Anybody what the remember the dear departed "POP-CORN" connected to?

Wasn't that Jenny's number?

Dave

:lol:
Close, but "POP" is 767 and 767-anything would connect you to the nice lady who read the clock over the phone all day long, 24/7, year in, year out....
I think she was another casualty of the explosion in cell phone use, although there's a persistent urban legend that one day she lost it and blew up the little gong that made "the sound of the tone" and verbally berated several dozen callers before finally committing "suicide by SWAT squad" just outside the concrete bunker where she worked.
It's even gettin' hard to find cheap watches anymore. :evil: