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This date backs to when they used names for phone exchanges, around the 50's.

New enough to have seven-digit phone number with the two-letter "exchange" prefix, old enough to have a zone number rather than a ZIP code. Thanks for posting the picture.

It's now a Realty place and a Pharmacy.

https://goo.gl/maps/bGtPabJc62M2

Edit: Realty, not Reality. :yes:

It's now a Reality place and a Pharmacy.

https://goo.gl/maps/bGtPabJc62M2

Nice artifacts. Time is surely a thief...:yes:
Kevin

Anybody 'member the pre-dial phone days when the Operator said "Number Please"?

And your town's first dial prefix? Ours was GArfield 5 (dial GA5....).

Garfield NJ?

Naw this was Globe AZ, a little Bugtussle sorta burg. Here's an interesting site on old phone exchanges..
http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/TENproject.html

According to the Exchange Name site, SW5 is SWiburne 5, from the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Many of the exchanges in NYC were regional and unique and not from the list of standard exchanges. NYC had seven-digit dialing since the 1930s, long before many other places.

My original and current exchange is REgent 1. Has been since about 1957, right before I was born. Of course now it's just 731. We don't have ten-digit dialing yet, but will sometime in 2016 or 2017 because they're overlaying another area code. Yuck!