re: Pictures from days gone by....

2 each of wings, thighs, breasts, and legs...what's the 9th piece I'm forgetting? The neck?

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2 each of wings, thighs, breasts, and legs...what's the 9th piece I'm forgetting? The neck?

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The back

Must be. I don’t recognize any names

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whats up with the phone number? did they used to be that short

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The "ME" might be the letters of the first two digits in the three digit exchange?

Around Chicago, it was common to call out the exchanges as two letters and a number. Easier to remember. I recall my Aunt's was PA-5-####. She'd always say "Palisades Five ####. My wife says her Grandma's was "AL-5", but doesn't know what it stood for.

LINK

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The 2L-5N system for the local directory number became the North American standard Direct long-distance dialing by customers, using the three-digit area code and a seven-digit telephone number, commenced in the 1950s. During the 1950s, cities still using five or six-digit numbers converted to the new method of seven-digit dialing. Typically, several six-digit (2L-4N) exchanges were co-located in one building already, with new ones added as old ones had filled up. After the conversion, they may have been combined into a new 2L-5N exchange area. For example, the CHerry, FIllmore, ATwater, and KLondike exchanges might be converted to OXford 1, 3, 6, and 7. Usually customers would keep the same station numbers.

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And AI says: In the Chicago area during the 1960s, AL stood for ALbany and PA stood for PAlisade.

More about that specific number from AI:

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The phone number ME 5-6840 (or 635-6840) was historically associated with The Shreveport Times newspaper in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Historical Background

Format: The "ME" stands for the MErcury exchange, which was a common telephone exchange name used in Shreveport during the mid-20th century.

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Our phone number in 1960 was 22777. There was a long distance charge to call some towns that were as close as 45 minutes away. I remember when all of this was farmland.

2 thighs, breasts, wings, legs- what’s the ninth piece of chicken?
Fried chicken neck?



Never mind- question asked and answered

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