Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!westmark.UUCP!dave From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: (none) (really Maryland +1 dialing) Message-ID: <165@westmark.UUCP> Date: 8 May 88 23:20:23 GMT References: <8804291646.AA06018@uunet.UU.NET> <2655@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 24 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu In article <2655@umd5.umd.edu>, dzoey@UMD5.UMD.EDU (Joe Herman) writes: ... > As long as we're strolling down memory lane, does anyone have a > collection of mnemonics/name that went with exchanges? > My folks still say "Juniper 8" for the 588 exchange. >From one who grew up (or thought he did) in Maryland: 434 = HEmlock 4 946 = WHitehall 6 622 = MAyfair 2 474 = GRanite 4 And from nearby 202-land: 737 = REpublic 7 628 = NAtional 8 393 = EXecutive 3 224 = CApitol 4 (the Capitol Hill Centrex prefix, as I recall) -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | clyde | mtune | ihnp4}!westmark!dave