When phone numbers had names?

[fuzzybuddy]

Do you remember when phone numbers had names? It wasn't 273-4851, It was Crestwood 4851. Everyplace had a cool name.

2=c
7=r
3=e 273=CREstwood

 

[Pepper]

NIghtingale

 

[ohioboy]

Beechwood 4 - 5789.

 

[hollydolly]

KNItscliffe 9212

 

[Pepper]

NIghtingale

I didn't add the numbers as this phone is Still in Use 70 years after it was issued!

 

[Pink Biz]

Beechwood 4 - 5789.

 

[1955]

I do, EDGewood XXXX. Don’t know why this was done.
Maybe it was just a memory aid to help remember the prefix?
Nowadays I prefer just saying “Call Santa Clause”.
Why do we even need numbers anymore?

 

[Alligatorob]

I don't remember ours ever having a name, but on TV most did, when I was a kid.

Telephone exchange names​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names

 

[win231]

I get a chuckle when I'm watching an old movie & see that. Also when they use a rotary dial.

 

[Lewkat]

ARmory
SHerwood
TEhrhune
LAmbert

 

[Kika]

South 8
HYacinth 9
GIbralter 8

 

[BC Flash]

I remember giving the telephone operator a letter and number (eg van 818)

 

[ohioboy]

Just thought of another one: BUtterfield 8

 

[HoneyNut]

When I was a kid our number was Fleming xxxx. Weird that I can remember that.

 

[Pepper]

Just thought of another one: BUtterfield 8

Loved that movie.

 

[RadishRose]

Beechwood 4 - 5789.

....any old time.

 

[RadishRose]

PLaza61007

 

[ohioboy]

On TV they sometimes use KL5- exchange, (555) since the U.S. has no such exchange, so no person watching can dial it.

 

[win231]

"Call Northside777"
Based on a true story, "Call Northside 777" follows P.J. McNeal, a newspaper reporter played by James Stewart, as he investigates a decade old murder case.

 

[Pepper]

LOngacre1-0010
LOngacre1-0011

My father's business phone. The 11 was for family use more than business. Oh, I wish I could call him.

 

[ohioboy]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)#Fictional_usage

 

[Jace]

HEmlock..(Pa.)

 

[RadishRose]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)#Fictional_usage

This is interesting.
Excerpt:

"In 1994, cartoonist Gary Larson's The Far Side included a panel with graffiti of a 555 number by which prank calls could be made to Satan. In Australia, 555 was at the time a standard exchange, and the Australian owner of the number became the subject of harassment, launching an unsuccessful lawsuit against Larson and his syndicate for defamation.[3]"

 

[ohioboy]

RR, call me baby. KL5 - love.

 

[debodun]

Morris 664