http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/ The Telephone EXchange Name Group Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ElmerCat http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3194 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3194 40 years ago, the long distance network became very overloaded on certain holidays including Mothers Day. Here's a compilation of Mothers Day overload Tue, 07 May 2013 17:38:46 GMT Don Borkowski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3193 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3193 FWIW, Valley Junction, Iowa changed its name to West Des Moines sometime since that directory was published. The high school in WDM is still called Valley Tue, 07 May 2013 17:34:20 GMT Don Borkowski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3192 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3192 The only Wilton I could find in Canada is in Ontario. Don To: singingwires@yahoogroups.com; oldtelephone@yahoogroups.com; tenproject@yahoogroups.com From: Mon, 06 May 2013 17:38:31 GMT Joseph Singer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3191 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3191 Was it manual common battery or 2L-4N? ... -- - - Joseph Singer, Seattle, Washington USA Mon, 06 May 2013 16:11:04 GMT Don Borkowski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3190 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3190 In Portland, Oregon, we also had a TAbor exchange, but it was named for Mt. Tabor, an extinct volcano within the city limits. It was changed to PRospect 4 in Mon, 06 May 2013 12:37:27 GMT RAYFRIDJR@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3189 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3189 One note about those old dial cards and their exchange names: If the name appears in all caps, it was most likely used on manual phones. Example: CHESTER Mon, 06 May 2013 05:11:33 GMT Jeremey-Stuart de Fishberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3188 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3188 Mike, might you scan your dial cards for even better clues as to where they are from ? Yours, Jeremey-Stuart de Fishberg Mon, 06 May 2013 02:38:49 GMT Max http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3187 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3187 I had a WEbster 8 number when I lived in Los Angeles, a few blocks north of Carthay Circle. I don't remember a Webster 9. Max Mon, 06 May 2013 01:02:06 GMT Bruce R.Gilson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3186 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3186 ... Interestingly, although CYpress was a Bronx exchange name in the later years, after 1947 or so, CYPress had earlier been used in Brooklyn (probably, though Mon, 06 May 2013 00:52:43 GMT Bruce R.Gilson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3185 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3185 ... ANdrew 8 could have been Boston. SHore Road 5 was probably Brooklyn. CHapel 9 could have been Farmingdale, Long Island, though there was no CHapel 7 in Sun, 05 May 2013 22:24:01 GMT Steph ☎ Kerman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3184 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3184 Thanks. The sound of dial tone coming up from different kinds of machines: SXS, Panel, 1XB, 5XB, 1E and 5E are all very distinct to the trained ear, not easily Sun, 05 May 2013 22:09:14 GMT Thomas Saunders http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3183 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3183 I think you're right about 220, but it transitioned to the ESS machine after a short time. The Tiebout ESS was only the second one to be installed in the Sun, 05 May 2013 21:55:15 GMT Steph ☎ Kerman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3182 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3182 Thanks Tom. Perhaps my recollection is inaccurate and that 220 and 731 were the same entity rather than 733 or 933. At the time 220 was introduced it was Sun, 05 May 2013 21:44:58 GMT Joseph Singer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3181 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3181 Well, sometimes with what is/was available they couldn't always have local reference. The telco guys knew that 292 might have been the real dial pull when Sun, 05 May 2013 21:35:55 GMT Thomas Saunders http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3180 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TENproject/message/3180 220 was part of the #1 ESS at Tiebout. I think it was used only for large PBX customers like NYU and Montefiore Hospital. NYT may have envisioned them