I "lived in the Valley", VA-48535 - Jefferson & Alter Road area. Still had the prefix in the late 60's.^^ Yeah TUxedo was the central office [[located at Mack & Cadieux) for all the Pointes except the Park, and for most eastsiders between I-94 and Mack. There are even 3 streets in St. Clair Shores [[south of the Milk River) that have Tuxedo, most other SCS folks had the PRescott exchange, whose central office is on Gratiot, just north of 11 Mile.
I believe that GPP had a VAlley Exchange... the VAlley Central office is located on St. Jean north of Jefferson in Detroit.
I used to work for Michigan Bell, and remember that the VAlley and TUxedo central offices were the first ones that were computerized.
That was the exchange that my grandparents and most of my relatives who lived in the Jefferson-Chalmers area and the western part of GP Park had. Except my great-grandparents and great aunt on Eastlawn, they had a HIckory number.
We had a VAlley phone number in Jeff-Chalmers. But our next door neighbors exchange was EDgewater.
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