>> I do recall that they really stretched out the cutovers. My
>> grandparents house in Providence still had the old style call progress
>> tones indicating they were still on the Panel until 1975 or so. The CO
>> for most of Providence is a huge building -- at least 14 floors that
>> were once filled with switching gear. Now it's just the 4th floor. The
>> rest of the building is offices.
> I was in Providence in 1978 and my recollection is that they had mixed
> ESS, panel and #1XB all working right next to each other. Another
> interesting thing about Providence is evidently Providence was a 2L 4N
> city originally since many of the exchanges in Providence have a one
> after them like PLantations 1, ELmhurst 1 and so on.
Yes I believe it did but in my time we had 7 digit. The only phone I'd ever seen with 2L1-4N was my grandparents 554 set. JAckson-1-4937. But I've seen old advertising materials for the Providence area that has
2L-4N numbers on it.
Very interesting -- I knew that Panel an ESS were in existence at the same time but wasn't aware of the #1XB.