=> In the 1965 directory, *two* new prefixes were listed in the
> local calling pages for the Fruitvale rate center: 531 **and** 530!
> In the 1966 directory, only 531 was listed. I did not see any phone
> numbers with 530 listed in the 1965 directory. Years later, of
> course, 530 was added to the Fruitvale-OLKDCA13 rate center-switch > combination.
> Did someone at Pac Bell jump the gun? This is the earliest I have
> ever seen a prefix of the form xx0.
I remember of a visit to the Los Angeles area in the late 1940s encountering a TExas 0- prefix. (Don't recall what area it served, if I ever knew, but there was nothing to indicate it was exceptional.)
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com