David Gast <gast@cs.ucla.edu> (06/11/91)
Carl Moore writes that: > I should also mention there is a West Los Angeles exchange which is > not to be confused with Los Angeles, as West Los Angeles is being put > in 310. West LA is just a GTE invention. GTE thinks that I live in West Los Angeles, but I live in LA. I pay LA taxes on my phone bill. 10%, in fact, on the entire bill including out of state calls. (The neighborhood is called West Los Angeles, but it is as much a part of LA as midtown is a part of Manhattan. There must be hundreds of the these areas in LA). The dividing line between 213 and 310 on the West side was supposed to La Cienega Blvd. If you lived on the East Side of LCB, you would stay in 213; if you lived on the West Side of LCB, you would switch to 310. Perhaps they have changed their minds. David
Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil> (06/12/91)
Sigh -- Yes, I know that the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles postal district are different from the (central) Los Angeles telephone exchange. I believe the area served by West Los Angeles TELEPHONE EXCHANGE does fall into the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles postal district, but the West Los Angeles TELEPHONE EXCHANGE is distinct from the Los Angeles TELEPHONE EXCHANGE. (And you are saying that West L.A. is served by GTE as opposed to the central L.A. exchange falling under PacBell, right?) This is akin to what is encountered in New York City: "New York, NY" mailing address refers to Manhattan, but NYC also has four other boroughs.