RE: The 931 exchange

[Ron Bello <rbello@BelloAssoc.com>]

As late as the mid 70s, the switchboard
number at WBZ-AM / FM / TV was 254-5670.
254-1030 went to an answering machine in the
radio newsroom that was rarely listened to.


At 03:50 PM 1/24/02 -0500, Garrett Wollman 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