[50¢ a yard!]
You never know what you might find in a supply closet. When my daughter Rachel saw this envelope full of fabric, she took a photograph and told me to check out the phone number. MUrray Hill!
New Yorkers of a certain age may remember the MUrray Hill exchange from commercials for Gimbel’s Custom Reupholstery. MUrray Hill 7-7500. MUrray Hill 7-7500. The commercials ran on WPIX-TV during morning cartoons and Little Rascals shorts. Yes, my school day, at least my elementary-school day, began with television. Better Living Through TV.
The Textile Building, at 295 Fifth Avenue, houses the showrooms of many textile manufacturers. The address is in Murray Hill, a section of Manhattan that gave its name to a telephone exchange. Liberty Fabrics at some point said goodbye to Murray Hill and MUrray Hill: the company’s New York showroom is now at 584 Broadway, in Lower Manhattan.
Thank you, Rachel.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
EXchange name sighting: MUrray Hill
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It's Murry Hill seven seven five hundred. It was on TV all the time on Channel 5.
No call letters. Thank you
WNEW, another indie. Home of Wonderama!
I was talking with my sibs and recalling "Murray Hill 7, 7-500." I Googled to make sure I had the number right and came upon this old post about telephone exchanges. As kids, our exchange was Walnut. I remember our mother saying our phone number as Walnut one XXXX. As for Wonderama, I remember well Sandy Becker (and him as Hambone). I loved the show but was peeved that I could never be in the running to join the kids on the set. But I never asked an adult about what it would take.
I’m glad this post was here for you to find. : )
I remember Sandy Becker too, but he had his own show. Wonderama, at least when I watched it, was always Sonny Fox. I never had any idea how kids got on that show. I just somehow figured it wasn’t for me.
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