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This is beautiful:
www.time.com/time/magazi...7416,00.html
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Friday, Jul. 13, 1962
When Bell System executives grandly announced that all telephone exchange names would soon be replaced by seven-digit numbers in the name of progress, they presupposed the blind acceptance of a benumbed and be-numbered public. They were wrong: the telephone company is now facing a minor rebellion. In San Francisco last week the Anti-Digit Dialing League was incorporated to oppose "creeping numeralism."
The A.D.D.L. was born a month ago when a want ad by angry San Francisco Organizer Carl V. May rallied a band of bitter anti-digit men, including famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College. Soon San Francisco lapels were sprouting A.D.D.L. buttons.
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anyone got a picture of the buttons?
www.time.com/time/magazi...7416,00.html
Excerpts:
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Friday, Jul. 13, 1962
When Bell System executives grandly announced that all telephone exchange names would soon be replaced by seven-digit numbers in the name of progress, they presupposed the blind acceptance of a benumbed and be-numbered public. They were wrong: the telephone company is now facing a minor rebellion. In San Francisco last week the Anti-Digit Dialing League was incorporated to oppose "creeping numeralism."
The A.D.D.L. was born a month ago when a want ad by angry San Francisco Organizer Carl V. May rallied a band of bitter anti-digit men, including famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College. Soon San Francisco lapels were sprouting A.D.D.L. buttons.
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anyone got a picture of the buttons?
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Re: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Fri, August 17, 2007 - 3:42 PMNo, but I still think of the phone number of my family's furniture store as beginning with PRospect 5. -
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moRe: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Fri, August 31, 2007 - 2:28 PMooohhh --
WEst 1
WAlnut 1 and 2
JOrdan ...
I can't think of any others right now. I pretty much stayed in the same neighborhood/part of town.
But I'll always remember WEst 1-5565. That was home! -
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Re: moRe: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Thu, September 27, 2007 - 9:18 PMGarfield! That was us in North Beach =)
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Re: moRe: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Fri, September 28, 2007 - 9:20 PMLOmbard-6____the house I grew up in in Cole Valley -
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Re: moRe: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Sun, October 21, 2007 - 11:35 PMWe were a LOmbard 6 in the Sunset! 9971 was the rest.
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Re: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Sat, August 18, 2007 - 9:46 AMThere is sign in a shop near the bottom of Oak Street that lists UNderhill (86)
and it's listed here ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html (there is a database of exchanges)
Nowadays 86 stands for TOFU of course :)
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Re: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Sun, August 19, 2007 - 3:01 PMLet's see....there have been a bunch of new exchanges added since the Bell System went numeric. So, what would we have now?
271 = BRatwurst 1
332 = FEeble 2
391 = EWwwwwww 1
722 = RAsputin 2
822 = TArnation 2
283 = BUrning Man 8 (of course)
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Re: The Anti-Digit Dialing League
Sat, August 25, 2007 - 12:07 AMfabulous. pete, let's make new buttons.
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