I
think the telephone prefix "F", stands for
Franklin. It just jumped right into my
head – Judy
Drake Williams ‘60
My dad also worked downtown – the F stood
for Franklin -- Barbara
Bright Wilder ’62
The
"F" stood for "Franklin." – Jim
Smith ’63
The F stood for the phone prefix Franklin,
which became Belmont. Our number was
Franklin-2624 in the ‘40s and early ‘50s
and it's the first number my mom made me
memorize. It changed to Franklin 9-2624,
then Belmont 9-2624. We lived at 3190
Grape St – Gary
Morris ‘61
F=Franklin. My family's phone number in
North Park was F-6842 -- Lela
Kerth Schlitz ‘60
In regard to the "Franklin" phone number
that later became "Belmont" and then,
finally all numbers, maybe "Franklin" and
"Belmont" had different rules but I have
this memory: Our phone number at Spartan
Drive was Randolph followed, if I remember
right by a single digit and then 4 digits,
just like the Franklin number recently
discussed. Here is the difference: When
the Randolph numbers were changed the
ENTIRE NUMBER was changed to all different
numbers. I don't remember the old Randolph
number except that the 4-digit part of the
number started with a 6. Randolph became
JUniper. The phone company made a big deal
about it, and the phone didn't work for a
few hours on one heavily-advertised day,
while they made the change. So our
Randolph with just an R changed to JUniper
with a JU, and all the numbers were
changed, in our case, it was JU-2 and then
the next digit was a 3, not a 6. Later, of
course, it was 582 followed by a 3 and
then 3 more digits. So in your example
someone speculates that the Franklin
number changed to BElmont and all the
other digits remained the same. I strongly
suspect that is not the case unless the
switch over of technology differed from
one area to another. I think all the
numbers changed completely when the
exchange names were changed so they could
use the first 2 letters in the phone
number -- Keith
Ballantine ‘62
(Our
phone number stayed the same. It began as
Talbot 9102, or T-9102. It became Atwater
9102, or AT-9102, then AT1-9102 or
281-9102 – John Fry)
San Diego High School telephone exchanges
in the Good Ol’ Days – John
Watt ‘68
Point Loma: Academy
224-
San
Diego: Belmont
and Cypress 234- and 298-
Hoover:
Atwater
(even earlier was Randolph) 284-
Crawford:
Juniper
583-
Helix:
Hopkins
462-
