Telephone Exchange Name Sightings

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You do not see too many of these out in the wild any more but if you stay alert (and if you know what you are looking at) you can still find them. These pictures show sightings of Telephone Exchange Name numbers, mostly from NYC but a couple are from San Francisco. The most interesting ones to me are the modern sightings, in which NYC telephone exchanges from some 80 years ago are still advertised on the side of a company's place of business. I also look for examples of the old phone numbers from my collections of old magazines and amateur slides. Part of the fun in spotting these old exchange name numbers is trying to guess what the letters stand for. When I do not already know, and when I give up on trying to guess, I have come to rely on the Telephone Exchange Name Project web site, a long-time favorite web site which has proven useful in this pursuit. I wrote a bit more about this project over at Telephone Exchange Names at the Payphone Project.

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Joe's S Perette, Brooklyn. ULster.5-6463	ALgonquin 4-2700	NAvarre-9-0400	EVergreen.6-4343, Flushing
CRestview and BRadshaw, Beverly Hills	Hedgecock Florist, Rego Park	ILlinois 7-1122. Party Time on Queens Boulevard	Carlos Pizza, Maspeth
CAnal-6-7390	IN CASE OF NECESSITY CALL INdependence 1-8642	Higdon Elevator Company	Management Borchard, UL.8-0700
Permacut Hair Stylists	FAirbanks Exchange Name. Gun Hill Fence Company Comments: 1	ORegon-9-6060	Superintendent Richard Reyes, PLaza9-2284
LOngacre Phone Exchange	Acropolis Realty Corp.	WY.2-1106 revisited	Joseph Sgroi & Sons, RAvenswood Phone Exchange
Riley Bros. Mausoleums. STillwell Phone Exchange.	O'Loughlin Florist. STillwell Phone Exchange.	Triboro Neon, LOngacre Exchange Name	Laurelton Manufacturing Company, Maspeth
EMpire Phone Exchange, Very Faded Sign	J De Martino Sea Food, COlumbus phone exchange	DEwey Exchange, Arthur Blum Signs	Harry Brainum Steel. EVergreen and RAvenswood Exchanges
ESplanade phone exchange. Central Sign Company.	DEwey Phone Exchange. Arthur Blum Signs.	Woo Cleaner & Laundry, San Francisco	American Burglar Alarm Company, Chinatown, San Francisco
Florida Signs, Long Island City. AStoria Phone Exchange.	Boro Sign, West Village	WOrth 6-5758. A&A Coffee Shop/Porto Rico Importing Company	Avignone Pharmacy/Chemists. CHelsea.2-3033
ALgonquin 4-9116. Regent Sign Company	Boro Sign Company. TR.5-6400	BAinbridge 9-4088. Magnasign of N.Y. Inc.	WY Phone Exchange, very faded
ESplanade Exchange Name	EVergreen 8-7068, W.H. Christian & Sons	Beardslee Transmission Equipment	NIghtingale 9-3839, Michael Cerverizzo & Sons Fence Company Comments: 1
WA.5-2985. WAlker, WArren, or WAtkins? Comments: 3	TRemont or TRiangle Exchange Name, Boro Sign Company	Old Magazine Ads With NYC Exchange Names	JUdson 8-0800. Riker & Co., 562 5th Avenue
LO-3-6540. LOngacre 3-6540. Ambassador Terrace in Manhattan.	GRamercy 5-3040	Frank Music Company, JUdson Telephone Exchange Name	OLympia 9-4444, Typhoon Fence Company
MU 3-0410. MUrray Hill 3-0410. True Value Lumber Boys, Murray Hill Exchange Name	ST. 4-2468. Henri Billharz Plumbing. STillwell 4-2468. Since 1927. Comments: 2	ALgonquin 4-1817.	PEnnsylvania 6-5300, Times Square 1942. PEnnsylvania Exchange Name, NYC.
ST6-0640. STillwell 6-0640. Metro Systems Corp.	ST6-6300. STillwell 6-6300. Don Lieberman Org. Inc	ST6-6300. STillwell 6-6300. Don Lieberman Org. Inc	ST6-6300. STillwell 6-6300. Don Lieberman Org. Inc
EM 1-9240. EMpire 1-9240. Able Steel Equipment, (718) 361-9240, Empire Telephone Exchange, NYC	RA 1-2089. Finast Window Company, Astoria. RAvenswood 1-2089.	PL8-2260. PLaza8-2260. Plaza Exchange Name. Sutton Clock Shop.	AStoria8-7979
TR 9-2740. TRafalgar 9-2740. Trafalgar Exchange Name.	AS 4-5500. Millionaire Realty, AStoria 4-5500.	RA 8-5660. RAvenswood 8-5660.	ST 6-0640. STillwell 6-0640. Metro Systems Corp.
ASTORIA -8-9090. Steinway Storage Warehouse	ORegon 9-5500. Adams & Co. Real Estate, 411 5th Avenue.