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Phones started with four digit numbers in 191?. A fifth digit was added in larger towns. Exchanges denoting parts of a town started by the 1920s. You had to call an operator to place long distance calls.
Area codes began in 1951, NJ.
You dialed a letter code by using the number associated with the letter. Phone dials had both printed under the dial.
@ai6yr I'm pretty sure it was printed with an offset duplicator, like a AB Dick. It was hand inked. That would make it post war, at least. The process didn't become inexpensive until after WW II. They were used up until the 80s.
I can't find when Burlington got dial, but VT first got it in 1948 and the last cities were in the 1960s.
So, my guess is somewhere between 1948 and 1960
"Classic" Vermont dishes are anything that was popular in New York or Boston from the 1930s to 1980s, as that's primarily whose been living there since then.
@ai6yr Huh, the W in 1869-W probably refers to a branch office to the West of downtown “Cities soon needed additional branch offices some distance from Central, to accommodate the subscriber base and expanding area, as a single office typically served a maximum of ten thousand telephone numbers. Often, additional central offices might be named by the directions of the compass, North, South, East, and West.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names
@ai6yr the letter suffix was for dialing "party line" systems. Letters J, M, R, and W (or digits 5, 6, 7, and 9) were used to signal which phone on a party line would ring.
and some of us are old enough to remember party lines.
"Mabel, I don't care if you are in the middle of great grandma Sue's pound cake recipe, Uncle Joe just impaled himself with the pitchfork and I need to cal the volunteer fire department!!"
@ai6yr Ok. This is super weird. I have a copy of that cookbook. Literally, have it beside me right now. It has the same page of ads. Mine is the 17th printing, from 1947. The copyright is from 1939. I’m a little freaked out TBH.
@VirginiaHolloway HA! Well, it must not be all that rare then.... Thanks for the time period on it. We have a lot of cookbooks here. I like the old historical ones, but I suspect many of them are going to go to the library foundation/book sale as the wife here wants to pare down the collection and the stuff that isn't being used.
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