ANdrew 8-8000

[John Francini]

The other thing, of course, is that it's quite likely that the 254  
exchange -- at least for the 56xx part -- was likely set up to deal  
with huge influxes of calls, much the way most Boston stations'  
contest call-in numbers are 617-931-xxxx. Special equipment was  
necessary to push the call blocking higher up the telephone switching  
hierarchy -- to the tandem offices -- so that calls to other numbers  
in the exchange would go through even as 10,000 or more people were  
trying to call a single number (or even a relatively short hunt group).

john

On 8 Apr 2009, at 16:37, Scott Fybush wrote:

> Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
>> I've never quite figured out why WBZ's call-in number is in the old
>> ALGonquin exchange yet the main number is in the old STadium 7
>> exchange.  I don't think they were historically in the same place,
>> although they are both in the Brighton-Wirt St. CO now.
>
> It might help to know that the main number, back in the days of  
> ALgonquin 4-5678, was AL 4-5670, and that that number dates all the  
> way back to the move to Soldiers Field Road in 1948. (The number at  
> the Hotel Bradford was HANcock 4261, for whatever that's worth.)
>
> The 787-7xxx centrex office numbers didn't come in until the late  
> seventies or maybe the early eighties. I'm pretty sure the 787  
> exchange postdates the STadium 3- numbers in the area by many years.
>
> s