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[PA Mom-mom]

If you loved "The Glenn Miller Story" you will like this. You can still dial Pennsylvania 6-5000! I remember booking our high school choir at the Hotel Pennsylvania in the late 90's. I was so excited the number was still the same. It still is! This is from Wikipedia:

PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is a telephone number in New York City, written in the 2L+5N (two letters, five numbers) format that was common in the largest US cities from approximately 1930 into the 1960s. The number is best known from the 1940 hit song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", a swing jazz and pop standard recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Its owner, the Hotel Pennsylvania, claims it to be the oldest continuing telephone number in New York City.[1] While the hotel opened in 1919, the exact age of the telephone number and the veracity of the hotel's claim are unknown. If you dial the modern form of the number 212-736-5000 you can hear part of the song on the hotel's recording.

[haddon9]

@PA Mom-mom   Very cool! 

Funny I can still remember my old phone number when I was a young child living in Brooklyn....CLovadale 8 6177

[PA Mom-mom]

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@haddon9 wrote:

@PA Mom-mom   Very cool! 

Funny I can still remember my old phone number when I was a young child living in Brooklyn....CLovadale 8 6177

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@haddon9  I lived in a small town, but our's was Ulysses - UL. We also had a party line!

[SeaMaiden]

I remember my childhood phone number too!  It was GL4- 1351

[Desertdi]

Me, too!   RAvenswood 8-6654

[VaBelle35]

Our first number we JUpiter6-7459

Our second number was MOhawk7-5683

[Deb665]

I still have my childhood phone number!  Years ago I moved back in with my parents to assist with my mothers care.  When my parents passed away, I had the phone transferred into my name.  It’s the reason I can’t give up my landline.  Sentimental I know.

[Azcowgirl]

Mine was parkway 34523

[Jamma]

TAlmage 3-6099

[Judaline]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

I remember my childhood phone number too!  It was GL4- 1351

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I remember mine, too, but I can't tell you what it was because I use it for my password on some sites