{"id":5217,"date":"2016-01-09T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T23:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2016-01-09T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T23:36:32","slug":"jamaica-9-1000-old-style-phone-number-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/01\/09\/jamaica-9-1000-old-style-phone-number-sighting.html","title":{"rendered":"JAmaica 9-1000. Old-Style Phone Number Sighting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI did not have a good camera on me, which is both\u00a0inexcusable and\u00a0unfortunate, but I had a tablet device with which I managed to capture this grainy image of a tow truck showing\u00a0an old-style <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/Telephone_Exchange_Names\/\" target=\"_blank\">telephone exchange name formatted phone number<\/a><\/strong> on its side.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5218\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/Telephone_Exchange_Names\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5218\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5218\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/23652445023_959f9a9eb6_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"JAmaica9-1000. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JAmaica9-1000.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That style of phone number was phased out decades ago. On account of that a sighting of such a phone number usually indicates that the signage is quite old. Other times, however, the old-style format is used in the spirit of nostalgia. I doubt this truck has been tooling around New York since the 1960s, when exchange name formatted numbers were officially phased out.<\/p>\n<p>My legitimate sightings of decades-old JAmaica exchange phone numbers include <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/Telephone_Exchange_Names\/DSCN2225.JPG.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cinelli Carting<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/Telephone_Exchange_Names\/P1080857.JPG.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brancato Iron Works<\/a><\/strong>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI did not have a good camera on me, which is both inexcusable and unfortunate, but I managed to capture this grainy image of a tow truck showing an old-style telephone exchange name formatted phone number on its side.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[293,543,555],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","category-digital-hoarding","tag-jamaica","tag-telephone-exchange-names","tag-tow-truck","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/23652445023_959f9a9eb6_o-1024x768-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1m9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}