From: "Michael Biel" <[log in to unmask]>
> My family also had the first TV set in our Bronx apartment house, a
DuMont Chatham, known to collectors as the "Doghouse" for its slant
sides.  I still have it.  Since we were in NYC we eventually had the
maximum allotment of VHF stations possible for a market, seven
(2,4,5,7,9,11 &13) and I remember when the final couple of of them came
on the air.
> When we moved to New Jersey, most of the towns had phone exchanges based
on the name of the town, and we were TEaneck 6.  <snip>

I  still remember my very first phone # -- Highland Park (Ill's) 4493. That 
was
before exchange names out in the "burbs!" We left Highland Park for Chicago
(311 Belden Ave #3) in 1949; by that time the number was HP 4493. We
sold that house in 1950...if it had become HP#-4493 I never learned that
number! I no longer recall our Chicago number; only its exchange (LIncoln 
2)!

In 1954, my dad ran unto financial diffiiculties...in 1954 ws had to move to
Waynesville (a very small and very old village), Illinois. This was one of 
the
very first such places to get dial service; we were on a party line with my
grandmother (she was 3853, we were 3851). In the sixties, Waynesville
was given the "YEllowstone 7" prefix (which, I suppose, became 937 ?!).

Steven C. Barr