Yet ANOTHER area code for Los Angeles! WTF??

[plinko]

“Dont get all 818 on me Claire!”

[202_Cyclist]

Originally Posted by plinko

“Dont get all 818 on me Claire!”

Ha! “Go” was a pretty good movie, which few people have seen.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist

When I lived in Southern California, people from the Inland Empire were referred to as "909ers," a slur that suggested they were rednecks who drove big trucks, etc...

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm...922-story.html

Kevin and Bean on KROQ was where I first learned of the area codes as status symbols phenomena. My roommate bought one of their Christmas albums, ("Christmas Time in the 909").

One of the novelty songs referred to the Inland Empire as the "Valley of the Dirt People" which just confused and confounded the ever-loving hell out of me.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by xzmattzx

I was not aware that the Niagara Region has area code 289, and western New York has 624.

WNY got 624 at the end of 2023.
Rochester still only has 585

289 became an area code in southern Ontario about 2 decades ago but I didn't know anyone personally that had the area code until 10 years ago.

[dchan]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

When I got my first Nokia cell phone back in '00, I was living down in Little Italy which was within the greater downtown Chicago "312" boundary (312 being Chicago's original old school area code) so I was lucky to get a 312 number.

I've kept it ever since and I will never let it go.

I kept changing numbers for a while back then. Old timers are well aware that the included call minutes were limited each month (and all texts cost money). So each year, the phone companies offered more minutes under new phone contracts. But the downside was that you needed to switch phone numbers each time for whatever reason. ()

I think Cingular (now AT&T) finally came out with their "keep your number" perk even if you signed a new phone contract to get more monthly minutes. Pretty soon, all the phone companies were doing the same. So we no longer needed to do the yearly "here's my new number" dance with your contacts.