bobf@uunet.uu.net (BFrankston) (10/10/89)
Recently my wife got a call. Turns out the person was given our old number and got a recording giving our new number. Nothing unusual except that we moved 8 years ago! [Moderator's Note: For many years during the 1950-60 period, a famous house of prostitution in Chicago apparently known all over the United States, if not the world, had the number DElaware 7-1515. When the joint was finally raided for the umpteenth time and the place closed for good, IBT said the number would not be re-assigned until the volume of calls to the number decreased. (They had been getting 30-40 calls daily for their `outcall service'.) Ten years later, there were still two or three calls daily, apparently from businessmen around the world who had never updated their little black books. I think the number was re-assigned after about twelve years. PT]