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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
