The oldest phone number in the world in continual use reportedly belongs to the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. It is 212-736-5000. When the numbers were seven-digit-long and alphanumeric it was PE6-5000. Before that? Pennsylvania 6-5000.
The second most famous phone number also has an exchange associated with Pennsylvania namely Dublin Borough in Bucks County. It’s 267-867-5309.
Get it?
You got it.
Oldest phone number — William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-24-19
Phone number? Honey Badger doesn’t care.
The longest word is something to care about.
Honey Badger says the longest word in the i
English language is something to care about. Here it is:
‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’
I remember three ladies working a switchboard on the 4th floor at 30th and Market, and I recall we used Evergreen – an obviously climate control positive Exchange. All the pollution emanated from the Keystone numbers in City Hall.
Bill Sr says he remembers it well too.
“Pee-aye-four, two-two hundred,
That’s the number
For the plumber!
Pee-aye-four, two-two hundred”
I think the melody was from a song that went, “Reuben, Reuben, I’ve Been Thinking…”, something like that.
I don’t remember which plumber it was, but that was the jingle for a TV commercial from around 1970, broadcast on one of the local Philly stations. It’s stuck with me all these years.
Evergreen 2 5600
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