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Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: RecycleMichael on October 13, 2008, 12:36:35 pm Tulsa used to have 14 different telephone stations, each with their own office. The name of the station was identified by a two letter abbreviation that is now the first two digits of your phone number.
The most remembered one is probably LUther. LU is now phone numbers beginning with 58. What are the other 13 station abbreviations and full names? Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: cks511 on October 13, 2008, 12:45:01 pm RI for Riverside and I believe the prefix is 74.
That's the only one I remember other than LU. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: AngieB on October 13, 2008, 12:46:51 pm The westside was HI6 for Hickory.
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Hometown on October 13, 2008, 12:50:49 pm WE
Webster Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: RecycleMichael on October 13, 2008, 12:59:45 pm Four down...ten to go...
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: breitee on October 13, 2008, 01:08:03 pm TE
Temple Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: cks511 on October 13, 2008, 01:13:49 pm ADams = 4#, east Tulsa...memory running really low.
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: TURobY on October 13, 2008, 01:17:09 pm CE
Cedar CH Cherry Had to ask my grandmother... Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: EricP on October 13, 2008, 01:45:01 pm Whoa.. interesting.
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: RecycleMichael on October 13, 2008, 01:57:12 pm TEmple and ADams are correct.
Grandmother was wrong...the 24 prefix was not CHerry but, CIrcle. The 23 was ADams, not CEdar... We are now up to seven. 23 - Adams 24 - Circle 44 - Hickory 58 - Luther 74 - Riverside 83 - Temple 93 - Webster Still need... 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 34 - 43 - 62 - Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Hoss on October 13, 2008, 02:13:35 pm quote: 62 - NAtional 43 - GEneral Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: cannon_fodder on October 13, 2008, 02:21:58 pm You people are old. [:D]
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Hoss on October 13, 2008, 02:24:25 pm quote: Not me...my grandparents and parents on the other hand. But seriously, I knew National because I have an uncle who used to work for Bell, and my first foray into DSL I did a lot of research, and the switching station at 41st and Memorial was still named 'National'. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: TURobY on October 13, 2008, 02:27:22 pm quote: Thanks. Maybe that is just how she remembered them. At least she got the numbers right... LOL Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Hometown on October 13, 2008, 02:38:32 pm Now coworkers are helping out.
27=Apache 28=Avenue 34=Filmore Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: RecycleMichael on October 13, 2008, 03:47:08 pm NAtional, GEneral and FIllmore are correct.
Apache and Avenue are not. Ten down, four to go. 23 - Adams 24 - Circle 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 34 - Fillmore 43 - General 44 - Hickory 58 - Luther 62 - National 74 - Riverside 83 - Temple 93 - Webster Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Hometown on October 13, 2008, 03:54:09 pm 26
Amherst? 27 Archer? Wild guesses Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: MichaelBates on October 13, 2008, 04:20:47 pm Our first prefix, when we came to Tulsa in 1969, was AMherst 6, which was of two Catoosa exchanges, along with ADams 4.
Sometime around 1970, Bell introduced the first non-named prefix, 560, for use by Cities Service Oil Company in their new HQ building at 110 W. 7th St. 27 was CRestview in Owasso. 29 was CYpress in Jenks. In the 1957 phone book, there are CHerry, MAdison, GIbson, DIamond, and VErnon exchanges in addition to TEmple, FIllmore, LUther, HIckory, and RIverside. I'm not sure why there would have been both a GIbson and HIckory exchange, since the same numbers were involved. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: GG on October 13, 2008, 04:27:17 pm 42 FI Filmore North Tulsa
FI5-5002 is ingrained in my brain from Kindergarten. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: TURobY on October 13, 2008, 04:48:57 pm quote: You mention CHerry as well. Perhaps both CIrcle and CHerry were used? Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: waterboy on October 13, 2008, 05:05:49 pm I had the easiest number ever to remember.
Webster 6-1248 All I had to remember was WE and 6, then start with 1 and double each number. I should call that number some day and see who the lucky ones are! Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Conan71 on October 13, 2008, 05:18:37 pm I remember in "Happy Days" that girls who lived in the KLondike 5 exchange were supposed to be hot. [;)]
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: RecycleMichael on October 13, 2008, 07:42:25 pm Now we have all but one...AMherst is 26. CRestview is 27 and CYpress is 29...the last one is 28...
23 - Adams 24 - Circle 26 - Amherst 27 - Crestview 28 - 29 - Cypress 34 - Fillmore 43 - General 44 - Hickory 58 - Luther 62 - National 74 - Riverside 83 - Temple 93 - Webster Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: MichaelBates on October 13, 2008, 08:16:02 pm quote: Right now I'm looking at a page from the 1957 Yellow Pages, from the grocery section, and I see several occurrences each of CIrcle 5 and CHerry 2. Since CIrcle 5 numbers are in Sand Springs and CHerry 2 numbers correspond to addresses near downtown Tulsa, these were probably physically separate exchanges, which might explain two different names for the same pair of digits. I'm going to guess that between 1957 and the late '60s, Bell standardized exchange names, so that a single mnemonic was used for a given two digit combination, even if different physical exchanges were in use. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: Bumby on October 13, 2008, 10:49:38 pm The 1971 phonebook has Sperry listed for 28 or ATlantic 8.
Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: nathanm on October 14, 2008, 12:53:42 am The buildings in Tulsa proper (and the one in Catoosa) seem to all have CLLI codes based on the former exchange name, aside from the didn't-exist-then office (apparently called woodcrest, although that name has nothing to do with the prefixes served out of it) on 71st east of yale and the office downtown, which is TULSOKTB. Presumably some consolidation (or a move) happened to cause that, since the others correspond well.
Were webster and adams actual offices, or have they always been served from temple and general, as they appear to be today? Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: RecycleMichael on October 14, 2008, 06:33:56 am The last one was ATlantic.
It is interesting that some of them changed between years. I never knew that. I like Cherry better than Circle anyway. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: dbacks fan on October 14, 2008, 09:35:35 am quote: Does any body remember when the Bell station at 41st & Memorial was broken into on New Years Eve 1982? They cut all of the trunk cables so they could isolate that area, set off all the alerts at the monitored security companies, and then break into Bergen Brunswig Pharmacuticals to steal all the drugs in the warehouse? I lived just west of the old Ma Hu field and the only people we could call were numbers that were 62x-xxxx and nothing else. Title: Tulsa History trivia Post by: patric on October 14, 2008, 10:40:24 am quote: It coincided with the scheduled breakup of the Bell System, so we just figured it was some Ma Bell employees celebrating their emancipation. |