{"id":5870,"date":"2016-10-07T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2016-10-07T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:39:34","slug":"boulevard-1-9500-jones-surgical-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/10\/07\/boulevard-1-9500-jones-surgical-company.html","title":{"rendered":"Boulevard-1-9500. Jones Surgical Company."},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThis one almost got away from me. At a glance the vertically-oriented text at the far right of this image looked like “JONES” followed by a regular phone number, albeit sans<\/em> the area code.<\/p>\n

\"BOulevard-1-9500.<\/a>

BOulevard-1-9500. Jones Surgical Company, Old Exchange Name Phone Number<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I thought, if that’s an old phone number from before the (718) area code was in use then it’s a strange looking number from that era. For technical reasons I read about once\u00a0(and which completely elude me now) the first three numbers of the old 7-digit numbers could not use zero as the second digit until decades later. So this number, which looked like 801-9500, didn’t seem right.<\/p>\n

\"Jones<\/a>

Jones Surgical, Old Phone Number, Closer Look<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I noticed the dash between what I thought was the zero and the one, and saw that this must be a BO telephone exchange name number in the old style. I had never seen a BO exchange before. I looked it up later at the estimable phone.net46.net<\/a><\/strong> and learned that this new-to-me exchange name was BOulevard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"BOulevard-1-9500.<\/a>

BOulevard-1-9500. Jones Surgical Company.<\/p><\/div>\n

I spotted this old format phone number last week at the Jones Surgical Supply Company, 101-21 Metropolitan Avenue at 71st\/Continental Avenue in Queens. Keep up with my never-ending collection of Telephone Exchange Name phone numbers<\/a><\/strong> still seen in the wild of New York and occasionally elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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