RE: The 931 exchange

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

Actually 787 (STadium 7 is quite appropriate.....Harvard Stadium's right
there on Western Ave)

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Wollman [mailto:wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: hopfgapr@sprynet.com
> Cc: Boston-Radio-Interest (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: The 931 exchange
>
>
> <<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
>