[IRCA] Phone exchanges (was Re: KIDD-630)

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think those phone exchanges disappeared in the 1970s or late 1960s because 
they became politically incorrect. Most of them were very white Anglo-Saxon 
sounding. In Toronto, they used to have exchanges like MElrose, LEnnox, 
RUssell, HUdson, and of course EMpire, as Toronto was a bastion of the 
British Empire (as recently as 1961, the population was over 90% white, with 
origins in the UK).

73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hawkins" <ng0g@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KIDD-630


> IRCA,
>
> On 12/26/14 10:20 PM, Patrick Martin wrote:
> > By the way in 1966 their phone number was "FRontier 2-8154, to give you 
> > an idea how long ago that was.
>
> I miss phone numbers like that.  I wrote a short piece for WHO about them, 
> when the morning hosts were talking about their, and WHO's old phone 
> numbers.
>
> Steve
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