Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: moxie!greg@cs.utexas.edu (Greg Hackney) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Buffalo, Texas Message-ID:Date: 14 Aug 89 22:42:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: moxie!greg@cs.utexas.edu Organization: S.W. Bell Lines: 13 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 298, message 11 of 12 In article cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: >It has come to my attention that there are 2 widely-separated phone >exchange areas in Texas which have the same place name (Buffalo). >One corresponds to the post office Buffalo 75831, and the other >is a suburb of Houston. If memory serves, the 497 exchange in Houston was formerly called Buffalo, and is now called Gypsy 7. And the 498 exchange, Alief, Texas, is called Gypsy 8. -- Greg