Tony Harminc <TONY@mcgill1.bitnet> (04/30/91)
> Going south on I-55, both phones went out of 'home' mode and into > roaming mode just south of Morris, IL, the outermost limit of the > Chicago service area. Not *the* Morris, IL - the home of the ESS trial in the 1960s ? Tony H. [Moderator's Note: Why yes, *the* Morris. It was also the home for many years of 'rate and route', the place long distance operators around the USA would call to get dialing information on obscure places not listed in their flip charts (this was long before every town and wilderness area was listed on the computer terminal.) Old-timers will recall that rate and route was accessed at 815 plus 141. Morris was a big beehive of activity for domestic long distance calls in the days before DDD; a lot like White Plains, NY was for international calls. On the same subject of my recent automobile trip, I recieved a note from Ray Bretthauer <rcb@sw1a7.sbc.com>, but attempts to mail an answer to him bounced. He pointed out an error in my travel itinerary saying that I-40 could not have been correct. He assumed I meant I-70. Yes, Ray, I think I did mean that. We were on the highway which goes straight east and west from St. Louis to Kansas City. I-70 I think... then at the intersection of 54 we went south / southwest on it. Years ago as as child I remember this trip also, but then we went on US 66 much of the way. PAT]