Need some help with 1965 phone #

Ok here's the quick lowdown were doing a patina shop truck and were lettering my familys chevy dealer info on the sides but I can not find any info on a 60's era phone number? An old timer at the parts store though it would be something like PE5-3480 or simaler. Any one know for sure? And no dealer ship wasn't around till late 70's so no good diging though records. Tryed that! Lol

 

http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html

 

Beechwood 4-5789

 

Yeah, just like the song!..

 

Pennsylvania 6-5000

 

I still remember Grandma's old number which began with LU2-....

 

Jeesh, just look up the first 2 digits on the dial pad and subs***ute.
Something like 456-5784 would be IL6-5784.
You get the idea.
Ours used to be 1F6 but that was in the 50's

 

Hee Haws phone number BR-549. From JR Samples garage. If I remember right.

 

I was working as a material expediter at Chevrolet in Flint in 1960-1961. 'Spent my day on the phone. It was during that time that we switched to all digit numbers so a 1965 phone number would have been very likely to be all digits.

 

THEY CHANGED FROM LETTERS TO numbers in the 60's. The no.s came from the name they used in early phone no's. Our area CApital3-???? so it became 223-???. You need to find what name they used in late 50's in your area. Hope this helps in your search. I started working at the phone Co.in 1957

 

Go to the Library ... many ( including ours ) have the phone books that go back into the 40's and 50's.

Our number back in the 50's was CEdar ****X
C=2 and E=3 ... so our number was 23****X

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Thanks I'm thinking pe6-5000 and see if any one make the connection!lol

 

Make sure it isn't a real number in your area but how about something like HO8-7637 (HOt-rods)

 

The letters were for the "exchange". Tucson numbers in the downtown area all started with MA (62) for "MAin"

Find a local newspaper from the time you're looking at....try a local library....

 

A couple things about doing this. You need to make sure this isn't someone elses phone number. Even if your family had the number in the 70's, it doesn't mean it isn't currently in use. If you're going to use YOUR number, be prepared for some crank calls.

As for the exchange names, you can use the recommended list in the 2nd post. At some point I plan on having a vintage company car. I'll use the old exchange for down here along with the rest of my number. I'd love a cheap '63 Bel Air 4-dr for this.

Growing up in the Detroit suburbs, our exchange was PRescott (77).

 

Ours used to be AMhurst7-****.
If i remember correctly, you only had to dial the last 5 numbers
for anyone that had the same Amhurst exchange.

Pick a fictional # like KLondike5-**** and you won't have a problem.

 

For some strange reason I'm thinking of calling my old friend Jenny, 867-5309.

 

When I was growing up in a small town in Pa, our # began with the word victor. Something like victor 5- 8845.
By strange coincidence though, my dads name was Victor. As a kid, I thought our number was because of my dads name, then I was at my neighbors house and found out his was victor something too, it was VERY confusing.

 

I used my parents old phone number from when I was growing up on my truck. TUxedo2-****. Of course now that there are area codes, I could very easily have someone else's phone number on my truck! But I guess that you'd have to be pretty foolish to dial an old style number expecting to actually reach the "Last Chance Garage" in Radiator Springs...

But I'll politely disagree that they quit using the letter / word prefixes in 1961 because that was the year that I was born! Anyone that lived near Pittsburgh can tell you about the radio jingles during the Pirates baseball games on KDKA in the 60's. I clearly remember "...No money you'll be riskin' if you call Joe Ziskind! HAzel1-7866".

Pittsburghers might be interested in the following article that talks about the various prefixes that were put in place in Pittsburgh in the 1950's and why they were named as they were...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/columnists/s_741315.html

At a minimum, I'll suggest using something that makes a real word for a prefix, as that was the whole idea from the phone company in the first place. That's also why you didn't see any phone numbers back then with 1 or 0 as the first or second digit in a phone number. No alphabetic letters on those numbers on the dial!

 

No help here. My number when I was real little was VA4-2654 That would be Valencia 4-.... But I was in San Francisco.

 

Ok, I'll admit it. I'm one guy that doesn't get it. 736-5000?

 

Pennsylvania 6-5000...

 

JENNY,JENNY, Lots of people who had that number got phone calls when that song was popular! I think some even changed their number!

 

Work number for years was WA8-3707, WAyside exchange.

 

Hudson 3 2700 if it's a fake carpet truck

 

I Virginia, we had Temple6 as a prefix. It later became 836. Also had a King9 exchange. Became 549-**** I can't remember exactly when the change to all digits took place. Probably mid-sixties.

 

Why not try something totally fictious Like OU-812

 

When they switched from exchanges to straight digits depended on where you lived and how cutting edge they were. The big cities got it done earlier, out in the burbs it was later and in the sticks, they took their time. So early sixties were probably alpha-numeric, late sixties were probably numbers and take your pick for the mid years. Depends which era the truck is but I like the old style.

 

sorry guys the pic didn't happen... BR-549