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(BElmont)
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from Bob Freeman on November 20, 2010 edit
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| Exchange
name: |
BElmont |
| Area
of Town: |
Freeport,
Texas |
| Equipment: |
#1 Step-By-Step,
then later #2 ESS; then later #5 ESS |
| Exchanges
included: |
233, 239,
possibly 238, and later others |
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This office
was served by a #1 Step located at the corner of Broad Street
and Velasco Boulevard in Freeport, Texas. The Bell Telephone
Business Office telephone number was (713) 233-5201. The
number to reach repair service was 4102, and later was
881-8181. To make your telephone "ring" or to
call someone on your party line, you dialed
410411, and then hung up.
While this office was served
by the No. 1 Step equipment, the ring back tone, dial tone,
and busy signal were basically identical to the following:
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Ring Back Tone
Dialtone
Busy Signal
Subscribers could dial the
following other exchanges as a local call: Clute: 265
(ANDrew5); Lake Jackson: 297 (CYpress7); Brazoria (an
independent): 798; Churchill (an independent): 964; and Dow
Chemical: 238.
Sometime
in the early 1980s, the business office moved to a site near
the Brazos Mall in Lake Jackson, Texas, and the telephone
number was (713) 297-7281, and the office had a PhoneCenter
Store for a few years. |
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