Remembering the old telephone Exchange names

We only had one telephone number with an exchange name. We were living in Lincoln, Nebraska and our exchange name was Ivanhoe. Our number was IVanhoe 9-xxxx (can’t remember the last four digits).



When the exchange names were dropped in the early 1960’s, our number remained the same but was dialed as 489-xxxx.

Glenn Miller's tune "PEnnsylvania 6-5000" made telephone exchange names famous. The telephone number in the song was for New York's Hotel Pennsylvania

The ‘PE’ was changed to ‘73’ when telephone companies dropped exchange names.

We thought exchange names added a little class to phone numbers and we hated to see them go.

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We had that same phone number for several years until we moved from College View to Colonial Hills. Even though the move was less than three miles we had to change phone numbers.

Click here to see how our son Norm and his friends dealt with the number change in a 2005 posting we called Telephone Tag.