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Those remind me of my hometown's Dial-A-Story line, which is still open and running. It's running off of ancient cassettes, though, so the stories--ostensibly for children--are distorted and kinda creepy. 217-728-2002 The stories change every week or two, and I recommend calling at night. In the dark. b --- "Utility World (Hugh Stegman)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > to unsubscribe from this list > > L.A. had a bunch of these voice machines when they > were still relatively > rare and otherwise used mostly by movie theaters. > Another famous one had > been around so long that it was called VERMONT from > the former letter > prefix, and indeed that's what you dialed to get it. > You got a cheerful > voice saying, "Hello, you have dialed VERMONT at > 10760 Rose," followed by a > joke. 10760 Rose was and is a large apartment > building in West L.A.. > > There was another one called Ben. Just Ben. I have > long since forgotten > the number. He was always very happy. Almost > disgustingly so. > > By then the only letter exchange was the Catholic > Archdiocese downtown, > TRinity, and the only thing on it was Dial-A-Prayer, > TR 4361. Didn't even > have a number in the prefix. That's old. > > The only thing I remember on ZZZZZZ was some soft > music and a parody of that > old commercial, "This moment of softness is brought > to you by ZZZ, ZZZ!" > > The one that was really popular with phone phreaks, > though, was a General > Telephone internal number that did nothing but run a > loop, "Five cents, > bing. Ten cents, bing bing. Twenty-five cents, > bong." (Insert appropriate > ancient pay phone bell noises.) A test line they'd > never bothered to turn > off? General still had a few stepping offices and > it was phone phreak > heaven. > > -hugh > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net > - > Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete > information about Spy Numbers Stations > My flash fiction, large work excerpts, and nonfiction commentaries are at http://benchilada.livejournal.com or in your inbox: http://www.yahoogroups.com/groups/compositemolecules --- AIM: benchilada YAHOO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchilada ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
