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> "REEVES, La. After decades of living with what Mayor Scott Walker calls a >
> > stigma, residents of this southwest Louisiana village are getting a new
> > telephone exchange, one without the biblical connotations attached to
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> > John Mayson
> > Austin, Texas, USA
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> In the 1960s when Centrex service was relatively new, Phillips Petroleum
> headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was offered the choice of prefixes 660,
> 661 and 666. They chose 661.
Which is the fastest of the three to dial on a 60's era phone, and probably saved them days per year of wasted dialing time.
--Gene
***** Moderator's Note *****
The reason, no doubt, for the nnx-1212 numbers for police. Funny, I never thought about it before.
It's sort of like saying "You can get in on the ground floor": you wouldn't think anyone would want to rent an office on the ground floor of a new building, until you realize that the phrase came from the time before buildings had elevators.
Bill Horne Temporary Moderator