The Soldier’s Return

Michael Cain in reply to Jaybird says:

Central 3-6-8 sounds like an early phone number: Central is the exchange and 3-6-8 indicates the line. In the early days there were all sorts of letter-number splits, eventually standardized to two letters and five numbers, and then to all numbers. I am so old that the first couple of home phone numbers I had to memorize as a child included the name Regent. Central was a common exchange name. At some point there was a “standard” set of names chosen to minimize misunderstanding between speaker and listener.Report