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Area codes on helmets…. - Giants - 12-20-2022
While watching the San Jose v. E. Michigan bowl game, it cam to my attention that San Jose features 408 on one side of their helmet. The other day, I noticed that Texas-San Antonio has 210 on their helmets.
I’m kinda old but I was thinking that an exchange (like LAkehurst) might be kinda cool on a helmet. I don’t remember the exchange for Stanford, CA. Anyone know?
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - cardcrimson - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 02:55 PM)Giants Wrote: While watching the San Jose v. E. Michigan bowl game, it cam to my attention that San Jose features 408 on one side of their helmet. The other day, I noticed that Texas-San Antonio has 210 on their helmets.650 currently. Historically, there have been others.
I’m kinda old but I was thinking that an exchange (like LAkehurst) might be kinda cool on a helmet. I don’t remember the exchange for Stanford, CA. Anyone know?
Lots of water polo clubs have taken their area code as a team name--559, 805, Mayfield 650, and others I'm sure. Kind of fun. A local team is 680 for the interstate. . . .
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - CompSci87 - 12-20-2022
Giants asked for exchange, not area code. The exchange is the next 3 digits after the area code. Exchanges used to have names, and you would dial the first two letters of the name as the first two digits. For instance, an old Milwaukee phone number that started 466-1234 was given as HOpkins 6-1234. I think that practice was phased out around 1965.
Currently, Stanford phone numbers have digits 72 after the area code. I'm unclear if that was true way back when exchanges still had names. I seem to remember there was a great phone number reassignment during the early 1980s when I was there, giving everyone 723- and 725- numbers.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - cardcrimson - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 03:09 PM)CompSci87 Wrote: Giants asked for exchange, not area code. The exchange is the next 3 digits after the area code. Exchanges used to have names, and you would dial the first two letters of the name as the first two digits. For instance, an old Milwaukee phone number that started 466-1234 was given as HOpkins 6-1234. I think that practice was phased out around 1965.Well, my bad. He did list 408 for San Jose and 210 for San Antonio, both are area codes for the metro areas. . . .
Currently, Stanford phone numbers have digits 72 after the area code. I'm unclear if that was true way back when exchanges still had names. I seem to remember there was a great phone number reassignment during the early 1980s when I was there, giving everyone 723- and 725- numbers.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - CompSci87 - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 03:15 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:(12-20-2022, 03:09 PM)CompSci87 Wrote: Giants asked for exchange, not area code. The exchange is the next 3 digits after the area code. Exchanges used to have names, and you would dial the first two letters of the name as the first two digits. For instance, an old Milwaukee phone number that started 466-1234 was given as HOpkins 6-1234. I think that practice was phased out around 1965.Well, my bad. He did list 408 for San Jose and 210 for San Antonio, both are area codes for the metro areas. . . .
Currently, Stanford phone numbers have digits 72 after the area code. I'm unclear if that was true way back when exchanges still had names. I seem to remember there was a great phone number reassignment during the early 1980s when I was there, giving everyone 723- and 725- numbers.
Yes, he started talking about area codes, then switched to exchanges ("like LAkehurst") in his second paragraph. Easy to miss that.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - Giants - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 03:15 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:(12-20-2022, 03:09 PM)CompSci87 Wrote: Giants asked for exchange, not area code. The exchange is the next 3 digits after the area code. Exchanges used to have names, and you would dial the first two letters of the name as the first two digits. For instance, an old Milwaukee phone number that started 466-1234 was given as HOpkins 6-1234. I think that practice was phased out around 1965.Well, my bad. He did list 408 for San Jose and 210 for San Antonio, both are area codes for the metro areas. . . .
Currently, Stanford phone numbers have digits 72 after the area code. I'm unclear if that was true way back when exchanges still had names. I seem to remember there was a great phone number reassignment during the early 1980s when I was there, giving everyone 723- and 725- numbers.
No big deal. I remember a bunch of East Bay exchanges, TElegraph, OLympic, and ELmhurst. Mine was the aforementioned LAkehurst in Alameda but I don’t remember any from the South Bay.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - GoodGrief - 12-20-2022
Back in the days when all Stanford dorm numbers had a 497 prefix, our dorm number was 497-4977. It was awesome.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - 81alum - 12-20-2022
The famous Glenn Miller song, Pennsylvania 6500--was taken from the exchange and the number of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City where his band was playing. Following is a national live radio broadcast from Hotel Pennsylvania, featuring the band members calling out the exchange and number:
PEnnsylvania 6-5000: Glenn MIller live remote from Hotel Pennsylvania - YouTube
Cardboarders do love thread drift!
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - crackpot - 12-20-2022
lɐƆ used to (and perhaps still does) use 642, which also used to be used by LMU.
I'm also old enough to remember that USF used to be 666, 'til some point (the 90s?) they switched 'em all.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - Phogge - 12-20-2022
Growing up in the City:
LOmbard
SEabright
KLondike
EXcelsior
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - Giants - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 03:15 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:(12-20-2022, 03:09 PM)CompSci87 Wrote: Giants asked for exchange, not area code. The exchange is the next 3 digits after the area code. Exchanges used to have names, and you would dial the first two letters of the name as the first two digits. For instance, an old Milwaukee phone number that started 466-1234 was given as HOpkins 6-1234. I think that practice was phased out around 1965.Well, my bad. He did list 408 for San Jose and 210 for San Antonio, both are area codes for the metro areas. . . .
Currently, Stanford phone numbers have digits 72 after the area code. I'm unclear if that was true way back when exchanges still had names. I seem to remember there was a great phone number reassignment during the early 1980s when I was there, giving everyone 723- and 725- numbers.
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RE: Area codes on helmets…. - cardcrimson - 12-20-2022
Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - threepointer - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 05:09 PM)cardcrimson Wrote: Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .
I had one until the mid-1970s when I matriculated to Stanford. Sometimes you could tell when someone was listening in.
My town (exchange) was so small that we only had to dial the last 4 digits of the phone number. No area code, no prefix.
When I was in junior high, I started to dial the prefix. My thinking was that I would eventually have to get used to dialing seven digits when I went to college - so I should get used to it. I explained this to my sister who was already in college. She said, "you are an idiot."
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - cardcrimson - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 05:45 PM)threepointer Wrote:(12-20-2022, 05:09 PM)cardcrimson Wrote: Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .
I had one until the mid-1970s when I matriculated to Stanford. Sometimes you could tell when someone was listening in.
My town (exchange) was so small that we only had to dial the last 4 digits of the phone number. No area code, no prefix.
When I was in junior high, I started to dial the prefix. My thinking was that I would eventually have to get used to dialing seven digits when I went to college - so I should get used to it. I explained this to my sister who was already in college. She said, "you are an idiot."
Great story. Thanks!
Our neighbor was an alcoholic (or should I say "person with an alcohol use disorder"), and would continually fall asleep with his phone off the hook. . . .
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - CowboyIndian - 12-20-2022
In the 50s, when I was a way prepubescent tyke, my mother made us all memorize our phone number, which is one of the few things I CAN remember nowadays:
Larchmont 2-3024-J…the”J” indicating our place in the party line pecking order. We also had no dialing. We would pick up the phone and an operator would ask “Number, please?” and connect us. What a relic!
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - qwerty49 - 12-20-2022
Palo Alto was Davenport
Mtn View was Yorkshire
Sunnyvale was Regent
Pretty sure Redwood City was Firestone.
Most of San Jose was Cypress
Drawing a blank on Los Altos — Whitecliff?
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - lex24 - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 07:09 PM)qwerty49 Wrote: Palo Alto was Davenport
Mtn View was Yorkshire
Sunnyvale was Regent
Pretty sure Redwood City was Firestone.
Most of San Jose was Cypress
Drawing a blank on Los Altos — Whitecliff?
Yes on Whitecliff. Also a market of that name.Mom used to send me shopping there with a check. Now a Draegers.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - CompSci87 - 12-20-2022
(12-20-2022, 05:09 PM)cardcrimson Wrote: Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .
My family had one when I was growing up. I don't remember when we switched to a private line.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - vataha - 12-20-2022
Yes, Whitecliff was an early more upscale supermarket then along came Draegers and improved upon it. I used to work there in the late 70’s.
RE: Area codes on helmets…. - 81alum - 12-21-2022
Yes, we had a party line when I was a kid, but it was down to just 2 houses on the line. Party lines got phased out in my area before I left for college in the 1970s.
Found this interesting tidbit on wiki which brings us back to sports:
Quote:In December 1942, University of Tennessee's strategy in an American football game versus University of Mississippi was revealed to the opposing coach as a telephone on the Ole Miss team's bench had been inadvertently wired to the same party line.
Can you imagine being on the Mississippi bench, picking up the phone expecting to talk to yout own coaches, and instead hearing your opponent discussing all the ins and outs of their strategy!
Meanwhile, for those who didn't like Glenn Miller's immortalization of a telephone exchange, I bring you the Marvelettes:
The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789 - YouTube