tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post8496621149376621367..comments2024-03-27T16:02:25.334-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: Telephone exchange namesMichael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-50066547170537644562008-03-05T18:49:00.000-06:002008-03-05T18:49:00.000-06:00Ray, I liked reading about your discovery. Thanks ...Ray, I liked reading about your discovery. Thanks for sharing it here.<BR/><BR/>I just found a Gimbels commercial with an exchange name in <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyCA3gf3b10" REL="nofollow">this compilation</A> of department store commercials. JUdson, not MUrray Hill, alas.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-45725714909754579402008-03-05T16:05:00.000-06:002008-03-05T16:05:00.000-06:00I posted about this very thing today and brought b...I posted about this very thing <A HREF="http://captainsblog.livejournal.com/480425.html" REL="nofollow">today</A> and brought back many memories for many people.<BR/><BR/>You're the only other person on the Internet, though, who remembers Gimbels Custom Reupholstery in that context. Not too many years later, ads for Fred the Furrier and the Ritz Thrift Shop would take their place among the daily dose of cartoons and Stooges shorts. Who did they think was watching?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for sharing the memories, however many months ago.<BR/><BR/>-Ray, whose blogger profile goes to a non-blogger blog but not the non-blogger blog above....Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07999541621680032978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-69310083021671244702007-10-03T20:57:00.000-05:002007-10-03T20:57:00.000-05:00Dennis, thanks for reminiscing. Childhood phone nu...Dennis, thanks for reminiscing. Childhood phone numbers do seem to stick. I remember mine, but none of the phone numbers from my student days. Michael, thanks for the exchange-name story. There's a page at the company site with an <A HREF="http://www.garfield12323.com/NewFiles/history.html" REL="nofollow">updated recording of the jingle</A>.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-51365981419967290332007-10-03T14:20:00.000-05:002007-10-03T14:20:00.000-05:00A company in Cleveland that installs aluminum sidi...A company in Cleveland that installs aluminum siding is known not by its name, but by the telephone number "GArfield 1-2323," which has been used in a jingle on radio and TV for five decades.<BR/><BR/>The company, still in business today, can be found on the Internet at the website address <A HREF="http://www.garfield12323.com" REL="nofollow">garfield12323.com</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-56399593472088664982007-08-18T13:35:00.000-05:002007-08-18T13:35:00.000-05:00I rember GEdney and Ulster from Brooklyn as well. ...I rember GEdney and Ulster from Brooklyn as well. I remmeber the number the phone number that we had in Brooklyn but can't remember any of the dozen or so that I've had since then...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-90570251563509356972007-07-09T09:36:00.000-05:002007-07-09T09:36:00.000-05:00Norman, thanks for the memories. My childhood exha...Norman, thanks for the memories. My childhood exhange in Brooklyn was GEdney. ULster was nearby. In suburban NJ, I remember seeing WHitney painted on a candy store window and realizing that that was (or would have been) our exchange. I'd known only "94."Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-44392142516475683032007-07-09T02:06:00.000-05:002007-07-09T02:06:00.000-05:00Ah, dowdy phone numbers!Our local exchange was TEm...Ah, dowdy phone numbers!<BR/><BR/>Our local exchange was TEmple 8 (Lockport, Ilinois), the one in nearby Lemont was CLearwater 7, and if memory serves the Joliet exchanges were all SAcramento x (72x). Berwyn, Illinois, used GUnderson, which was a legacy from pre-direct-dial days and the name of a local thoroughfare.<BR/><BR/>For years after the little piece of paper inside telephone dials (!) stopped showing letters for exchanges, Boushelle, a carpet company in Chicago, continued to use its dowdy number as its jingle: HUdson three two seven hundred - G G G F E D E C - I have provided the notes in the key of C for all non-Chicagolanders. All Chicagolanders of a certain age can sing this jingle without the notes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-56365552780119790382007-07-07T14:05:00.000-05:002007-07-07T14:05:00.000-05:00The absence of PEnnsylvania is puzzling. Maybe it ...The absence of PEnnsylvania is puzzling. Maybe it was kept off the list to avoid possible confusion? (PA v. PE?)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-55649134060807725042007-07-07T11:42:00.000-05:002007-07-07T11:42:00.000-05:00What about PEnnsylvania 6-5000? PEnnsylvania, alo...What about PEnnsylvania 6-5000? PEnnsylvania, along with my childhood exchange DEcatur, is not on the list.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.com