dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us (David W. Tamkin) (09/10/89)
From John Higdon in TELECOM Digest, Volume 9, Issue 357: | Speaking of rumors, a few years ago there was a major rumor (even saw | light of day in the newspaper) that Pac*Bell was buying out GTE's Los | Gatos operations. You should have seen the smiling faces in Los Gatos, | not the least of which belonged to members of the Town Council. To my | knowledge, the Los Gatos Town Council is the only governing body to | have passed a resolution declaring that they wished they had a | different telephone company serving their town! Now that's not a rumor; | that really happened! Rosemont, Illinois (where I rent a post office box), is divided among three CO's: Centel's Des Plaines CO to the northwest, Centel's Park Ridge CO for most of the town, and Illinois Bell's Schiller Park CO of the Franklin Park Exchange at the southern tip. In the late 1960's or early 1970's the Village Hall was relocated to its current site on the south side of Bryn Mawr Avenue, just west of the Des Plaines River (if you've stayed at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare you were on the north side of Bryn Mawr, across the street of it). The Centel/Bell border ran along Bryn Mawr from the river, west across River Road, to Gage Street. At the same time, the Centel/Bell border between River Road and the river was relocated south to Williams Street, just letting in the new Village Hall and the site now occupied by the Rosemont-O'Hare Exposition Center. The village government did *not* want to switch its phones to Illinois Bell. David Tamkin dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us {attctc,netsys,ddsw1}!jolnet!dattier Post Office Box 813 BIX: dattier GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570 Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 (312) 693-0591 (708) 518-6769