DEvonshire 8-6700 (RE: The 931 exchange)

["Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

     And don't forget WEEI's Talkshow Line  (during
the 590 "Talk of Boston" days) was DEvonshire 8-6700. 
My Mom was an avid WEEI listener, day-in day-out! 
Paul Benzaquin was major "talkmaster" during those
days! The 931 exchange was, in actuality, an outgrowth
of that 338 exchange, due to the overabundance of
contests when WRKO first hit the air in 1967.  The
Boston Central Exchange was ill-equipped when stations
like WMEX and WRKO had contests!  It crashed many
times before New England Telephone got the hint and
gave the radio stations an entire enchange (931) for
them to play! I know, I used to call those lovely 931
numbers, way back when!      

-Pete (K1XRB)

 
--- Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
> <<On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:25:49 -0500, "Paul
> Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com> said:
> 
> > WBZ was 254-5678 (254 is/was a Brighton/Allston
> exchange...I had 254-4475 in
> > my Brighton/Allston years)
> 
> And before that, it was ALgonquin 4-5678!  
> 
> Their switchboard number is STadium 7-7000, which
> doesn't seem
> particularly appropriate; I wonder if they might
> originally have had
> another number, perhaps ALgonquin 4-4000, and then
> later upgraded
> their phone system.  The ALgonquin exchange is
> served from the Allston
> C.O., which is located on that little diagonal
> street that cuts off
> one corner at the intersection of North Harvard St.
> and Western Ave.
> The STadium exchange is in the Brighton C.O., which
> is across the
> street from the Brighton district police building
> off Washington St.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 


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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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