An EXchange name sighting
In a few seconds the bungalow that goes with that telephone pad will fade into the apartment that goes with that number.
An EXchange name sighting
As Sidney Falco prepares to beseech his god.
A pocket notebook sighting (with EXchange names)
From From Vice Squad (dir. Arnold Laven, 1953).
Naked City exchange names
WAverly and PLaza.
An EXchange name sighting
From an episode of Naked City, Peter Falk and TEmpleton.
An EXchange name sighting
A Los Angeles motor livery, in a building still standing.
An EXchange name sighting
From Pitfall (dir. Andre de Toth, 1948), an exchange name in a telegram.
An EXchange name sighting
EXbrook.
An EXchange name sighting
GRanite 1466 runs through The Blue Gardenia like a musical motif.
EXchange name sightings
From The Slender Thread.
EXchange name sightings
Exchange names come into their own in Fallen Angel (dir. Otto Preminger, 1945).
EXchange name sightings
Exchange names have nice cameos in Framed (dir. Richard Wallace, 1947).
An EXchange name sighting
ACademy. From The Brothers Rico (dir. Phil Karlson, 1957).
HO 3-3338
The letters HO signified the exchange names HObart, HOmestead, HOpkins, and HOward. And HOllywood!
EXchange name sighting
BRyant, from Safety Last!
EXchange name sighting
TUxedo 5-1234 was indeed the number of the Yellow Cab Company.
An EXchange name sighting
TUxedo 1234, from Out of the Past.
An EXchange name sighting
From Dark Passage: GReystone.
An EXchange names sighting: The Brasher Doubloon
BRighton, Burnside, MUtual, and ROchester.
An EXchange name sighting
Miss Jane Hudson, HO 5-6259, is planning to revive her career.
EXchange name sighting: MUrray Hill
You never know what you might find in a supply closet.
EXchange names on screen: BArclay
From Deux hommes dans Manhattan (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1959).
EXchange names on screen: VICtoria
From Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright.
EXchange names on screen
From Act of Violence (dir. Fred Zinnemann, 1949.
A mystery actor and a telephone EXchange name
“DUnkirk 7–3899, that’s all we need.” But who is she?
LY 1–7116
An exchange name on the back of a photograph.
Media studies: file drawers, notebook, EXchange name
There are many ways to enjoy television.
EXchange names on screen
DUnkirk and MAdison, in Down Three Dark Streets, (dir. Arnold Laven, 1954).
EXchange names on screen
Let’s say OXford, OLympia, MAdison, CRestview.
An EXchange name on screen
YO.