In article snipped-for-privacy@telecom-digest.org, Stephen Greenfield at snipped-for-privacy@Screenplay.com wrote on 4/17/06 23:39:
Dear Patrick,
> I've been trying to research the date a particular sign was posted on
> my property in Glendale, California. When I saw that it had the
> company's name (Pacific Fence Co.) and a very old 2L-4N phone
> number ( Hillside 8141 ), I grew to wonder when Los Angeles would have
> made the transition to 2L-5N, because I could probably figure the sign
> predates that time.
> My property was built in 1926. I'm guessing that Los Angeles switched
> over sometime after WWII and before 1949, but I can't get a better fix
> on that. Any chance you know where to look?
> (I've been scanning old postings and digests, but haven't found anything > definitive)/
> Best Regards,
> Stephen Greenfield
> snipped-for-privacy@screenplay.com
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Perhaps some of our older readers who
> have been around Los Angeles for a half-century or so, or older
> readers who lived there in the 1940-60 era will be able to answer > this. PAT]
Having lived in the San Fernando Valley through 1972, I remember having our number changed from DImond XXXX to DImond1-XXXX in 1958 or 59.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Was the exchange name 'Dimond' or 'Diamond' (with the /a/ as the third letter)? PAT]