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Telephone
Area Code History
* Meant as an "overlay" rather than a new area code. Approved on September 21, 2000 as a backup plan. The final plan remains under evaluation.
The former telephone company GTE (merged into Verizon) once published a telephone directory for Sierra Madre listing no home numbers. In 1958, due to increased consumer demand for individual telephone numbers, the telephone company began phasing out old exchange names for all numeric telephone numbers or "All Number Calling" (pretty much gone by 1963). These old exchange names are remembered in Glenn Miller’s song PEnnsylvania 6-5000, and Elizabeth Taylor’s movie BUtterfield-8. Click here for a list of numbers for Los Angeles County gleaned from exchange names collected by the Telephone EXchange Name Project. In July 1994, O.J. Simpson defense lawyers announced a toll-free 800 number in which to call in leads that might help their client’s case. Within 24 hours, an unsuspecting El Segundo woman was deluged with 200 of these calls. Her number was the same as the Simpson number except that it was preceded with area code 310.
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