MikeM, it looks like you help put together a great historical
thread on the subject.
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MikeM, it looks like you help put together a great historical
thread on the subject.
TWinbrook was also in use in "hamtramck heights" as was TRinity in the area destroyed by PoleTown.
TUxedo at the Harper Wds, Detroit & Grosse Pte Woods corners. I still remember two other numbers I dialed a lot back then, one LAkeview the other PRescott. Yet I don't remember what I just walked upstairs for 3 minutes ago. Go figure. lol
Then there's always 867-5309 or Pennsylvania 6-5000
My landline starts with 867-. Qwest, now Century Link, has retired 867-5309.
My grandparents lived on Woodlawn, south of the City Airport between Erwin and McClellan. Their number was WAlnut 4-3886. My parents number on Waltham, just south of Manning, was LAkeview 6-0628, but we could not view a lake.
Our number in Lincoln Park started out as ATlantic and 4 digits in 1940. Changed to DUnkirk and 5 digits. Now all digits.
On the eastside, down closer to the river, ours was WAlnut [[92) as well. I remember that Michigan Bell started encouraging folks to use just the numbers in the late '60s, but my mom still always said "WAlnut 2 ...".
The Wicked Mr. Pickett.
I only lived in Detroit for a few years, but TY8-7100 will be seared into my mind forever.
I grew up on Sussex near Plymouth & Greenfield on the west side. Our number was VErmont 62365. I’ve forgotten a lot of other phone numbers in my life, but never that one!
When I grew up in the Wyoming & Schoolcraft area the No. was WEbster5-8307 and later on Penrod in the Joy Southfield area it was LUzon1-9228.
I'd be really interested to learn why each prefix was chosen for each particular exchange, if anyone knows it.
We do good work.
https://youtu.be/7W8Rnp3t6uY
Schoolcraft and Meyers here, Birwood, phone no. was WEbster 4-2539. But I spent a lot of time at Schoolcraft and Wyoming waiting for the bus there to take me to Mackenzie H.S.. Ah, those were the days. [[Except in November, December, January, February, and 90 percent of March...for the weather.) Wait....that's nearly the whole year! And all you folks wonder why I moved to Las Vegas, eh? Bwahhhahahaha!
I always liked this one -
"Puff the Magic Contractor" Oooh the colors !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ktiBVlgZw
I also have to throw this in [[My ringtone for 8+ years)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbrdImfvFmQ