How did I not know my state has another area code?

[bicentennial_baby]

All my life, it's been 413, 617, 508..Then 978 and 781.

So I get my Dad's # at the hospital, and it's 857!

And apparently it's been around since 2001. And I also find out that we have: 339, 351, and 774.

:wtf: I am so out of the loop...

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Ha. That's happened to me also.

CT used to be all 203, now there's 860 as well and probably more.

Danged Cell Phones.

[Chan790]

2. Nope...just two.

203 - Fairfield Co. and all the right-leaning areas west of Waterbury we want to give to NY.

860 - New Englanders living in CT.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. You are too young to remember this, but many moons

ago my hometown had just two exchanges and the exchanges only differed by one number. You could reach your party by only dialing the last number of the prefix and the four remaining digits.

This is how old I am. My first boyfriend in high school had a party line. :rofl:

[madinmaryland]

10. It was that way when I grew up in the 60's into the early 70's.

We had a guy next door who was an old bell at&t guy who installed a telephone central office switch in his house! Built an addition to his house to hold the equipment. He could have hooked everyone in town (about 3,000 people) to his phone system. He did it to put a phone in every room of his house! This was in the 70's.

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

12. WTF!!1!! The 203 area code gave us Ned Lamont!

The 860 area code gives us the wonderful gift of Joe Lieberman!

:hi:

[krispos42]

13. And there are two more assigned but not implemented yet

475 and 959.

Just in case. :-)

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Seriously...and I've called this floor of the hospital before,

it was 617, last time. :crazy:

[Midlodemocrat]

5. The switchover from 617 to 781 drove me nuts

My inlaws were in the 781 exchange and my brother was in Brooklyn at 718. Could never remember which was which.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. I was happy to move to Pittsburgh, 413 to 412

Easy on my addled brain :P

[Beer Snob-50]

6. whewwwwwwwww

i really thought you were going to say you didn't realize there was 413. and i would have to chastise you for not realizing that massachusetts goes beyond Worcester

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Silly, I'm from Greenfield!

:rofl:

Born and raised in the 413, homie. :D

[Beer Snob-50]

20. my bad

some of us have an inferiority complex when it comes to the rest of the state. i mean our last governor made only a small number of trips of our part of the state.

[bicentennial_baby]

21. I'm a proud Western MAsshole! And I think one reason that Patrick

did so overwhelmingly well in Franklin/Berkshire counties is that he visited towns like Greenfield. Hell, he went to Heath, which has a population of around 800 people. :D

I'm originally from Leyden, population approx. 775. w00t!

This is the hill I used to live on:

[Beer Snob-50]

22. that picture is why i love wmass!!

i live in ludlow and love to hike in the holyoke range.

[CreekDog]

7. i remember when most of the western states were 1 area code

that all changed in the 90's.

but even the Bay Area has been multiple area codes since who knows when, and now we have 5 area codes.

and don't even get me started about Southern California. :banghead:

[AlCzervik]

11. i knew about the first 5 but not the other ones. I remember when it used to be 617

and 413, 413 was Riverside park!

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Which is now 6 Flags!

They still have the old wooden coaster though. I miss the Alpine slides :D

[AlCzervik]

15. i've only gotten almost sick on 2 rides in my entire life and one was at riverside park

i was hungover, yes bad decision and the ride was the turkish twist, you know it spins around and the bottom drops out and you're stuck to wall?

the other one was the back to the future ride at i think mgm in Florida.

[bicentennial_baby]

I've been on that at the Franklin County Fair...The Gravitron

6 Flags in Agawam rawks! The Superman Ride of Steel coaster is teh awesomeness.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. I remember Riverside Park!!!! We used to go there every summer.

My dad and I were the only ones brave enough to ride the roller coasters.

Great memories.

[AlCzervik]

17. yup, excellent memories, that was the big park compared to Paragon in Nantasket

i have lots of good memories from Paragon as well but the big rides were at Riverside.

[bicentennial_baby]

18. They still have the Paragon carousel at Nantasket!

We rode it last spring, 'cause we're goofy like that. :D

[AlCzervik]

19. that's cool, my Mom used to take me there, i was so happy the day i was finally tall enough

for the big roller coaster or the "tit shaker" as we used to call it.

[flvegan]

23. I can remember, when living in Manomet in my youth

You didn't have to dial (locally) either area code. Just the last 4 digits.

Now there are a brazillion area codes. Craziness.

[BarbaRosa]

24. We, NM, are in the process of a new AC

As of last Oct. the NW part of the state, Alb, Grants, Gallup, etc. have the old 505, and the rest of us are now 575. Until Oct.7,08 both will work, after that we need to use the new AC. I've had the 505 AC for 40+ years. 575-XXX-XXXX just don't feel right.:shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

25. That would be disconcerting, yes

Good luck! At least it still has a 5 on each end. :)