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Originally posted by Taualumna
I've read about prefixes before numbers in older novels and seen them in movies and books. How exactly did it work?
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In American (and probably Canadian) telephones you'll notice the alphabet grouped in three letter groups. The first two letters are actually a mnemonic for the telephone exchange, such as 'Butterfield 8'.
BUtterfield 8
BU8 = 288-(last four digits of the individual phone number)
PEnnsylvania 6-5000 - (the phone number for the New York Stadler Hilton, also a Glenn Miller Big Band tune)
PE6 = 736-5000
Descriptive telephone exchanges fell into disuse in the 1960s when area codes were first introduced.
More info:
http://www.ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html
BTW, my mom's old phone number in Elmhurst, Queens - before she married my dad: DEfender 5-5582 (335-5582)