TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Local Numbers of Form XX0- (was Re: San Francisco/Oakland Exchange)


Local Numbers of Form XX0- (was Re: San Francisco/Oakland Exchange)


Wesrock@aol.com
Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:04:15 EDT

In a message dated Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:02:21 -0000,
markrobt@myrealbox.com (Mark Roberts) writes:

> => In the 1965 directory, *two* new prefixes were listed in the
> local calling pages for the Fruitvale rate center: 531 **and** 530!

> In the 1966 directory, only 531 was listed. I did not see any phone
> numbers with 530 listed in the 1965 directory. Years later, of
> course, 530 was added to the Fruitvale-OLKDCA13 rate center-switch
> combination.

> Did someone at Pac Bell jump the gun? This is the earliest I have
> ever seen a prefix of the form xx0.

I remember of a visit to the Los Angeles area in the late 1940s
encountering a TExas 0- prefix. (Don't recall what area it served, if
I ever knew, but there was nothing to indicate it was exceptional.)

Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com

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