What was your telephone exchange name?

^ A woman will NEVER admit to “geezing,” so we might be in the clear on this one.

OTOH, maybe Geezettes (bless you)?

Logically, then, a geezer is someone who geezes. No need to bring gender into it. :slight_smile:

^ Or a shade more “geeze.” (Wow, did THIS ever de-rail)

FAirview…now its just stupd 32…arrggghhh

PArkview.

PArkview 3-1917.

(Damn! I can’t believe I remember that. It’s been 35 years sice my Dad sold the old homestead.)
My husband’s was LAfayette.

LAsalle 7-0069 was ours when I was 10 years old or so it was changed to. 7digits. Instead of L A 7 0 0 6 9. Dont remember what the LA was presumably 52. My Grandmother’s number was CApitol being down town St Paul Minn, the state capitol.

Zero and one were the only middle numbers for area codes until maybe 1990 or so. I remember the confusion when they started with other digits in that position.

KIngsbridge 3. I remember people occasionally saying “KI” 3, but never the whole word.

Aw, thanks** RT**! :smiley:

^ GEEZER ALERT Get a room, you two! And get off my lawn! GEEZER ALERT

My husband, from Queens NY, remembers having RAvenswood too (sounds vaguely spooky).

Growing up in Brooklyn, mine was HIckory 4-****

Ours was DAvenport, a word that only the grandparents on one side of the family actually used. My Dad held on to the DA years longer than anyone else I knew.

(Now I’ve had to look up the etymology. Davenport was the name of a furniture manufacturer, presumably the surname of the founder. They made BIG sofas. The name is a locative for a place in Cheshire, England, originally Devennport.)

PResident. PR6-xxxx

LIncoln-7-XXXX
South Jersey

Lemon party!

^ How dare you, you Taiwan-on! I mean really! I’ve never been so…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Finally remembered. HO for Hollywood. 46

How appropriate.