I wonder whether "211" was just a California thing in those
> days? If so, wasn't Jimmy, Raymond, and Grace (oh what a
> beautiful woman ;-) in an apartment house in NYC?
Greenwich Village.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I know we had '211' in the
> Chicago area > Was this true in LA, which was still primarily step at this
> time? Most predominantly step cities used "110" for the Long
> Distance operator.
Some godawful Jerry Lewis movie had him sitting at a manual PBX impersonating a female operator. At one point, the telco operator tells him to call 110 if he wants long distance. I don't remember anything more about this film because it was so awful that I walked out.
Predominantly panel type cities (including those that had some
> crossbar mixed in by this time) used "211."
This gets us back to the endless N11 v. 11N thread. Our expert on such things is Mark Cuccia, but I suspect that Mark has other things on his mind right now.
Speaking of Mark, has anybody heard from him since Katrina hit New Orleans?