[From the Naked City episode “SUsquehanna 4-7568,” December 16, 1958. Click for a larger view.]
SUsquehannah does not appear on Bell Telephone’s 1955 list of recommended exchange names. But the Telephone EXchange Name Project lists it as a Manhattan exchange, serving the Upper West Side. Ephemeral New York has a photograph of a sign with an SU number.
“SUsquehanna 4-7568” is a fine early Naked City episode, a variation on the “Sorry, Wrong Number” theme. Among its characters is the scariest sanitation worker you’ll ever meet.
More exchange names on screen
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Telephone exchange names on screen: SUsquehannah
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The brave actress who had to lie on the floor of the sanitation department after getting strangled - THAT gave me the willies.
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