Re: The 931 exchange

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 24 Jan 2002 at 16:26, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> It most certainly is.  Although AT&T had a listing of approved
> exchange names (ALgonquin was one of them), many of the exchanges in
> Boston were named early on, before this list came out.  Hence, we
> still today have TWinbrook numbers in Waltham, COpley numbers in the
> Back Bay (although COmmonwealth would also fit), 

COmmonwealth was also used.  I think it was COpley 7 and Commonwealth 6 
or something like that.  (Have I finally found something that you didn't 
know?) ;->

Which reminds me of the old Red Skelton line where, on hearing someone's 
phone number was "CApital 7 ...," Red asked, "How do you make a capital 
7?"

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