What ever happened to the WORDS used in phone numbers?
micky wrote in
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Especially in Chicago, where the exchanges were MIdway, HYde Park maybe,
and a couple others I forget that related to the neighborhood.
In Chicago as a kid my number was HUmboldt 6-2462. My grandmother who lived
updtairs was HU6-2542. We lived about a mile from Humboldt Park on the NW
side.
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