[Spooks] Need Help Dialing-A-Story?

[benjamin sTone]

Those remind me of my hometown's Dial-A-Story line,
which is still open and running.

It's running off of ancient cassettes, though, so the
stories--ostensibly for children--are distorted and
kinda creepy.

217-728-2002

The stories change every week or two, and I recommend
calling at night.

In the dark.

b

--- "Utility World (Hugh Stegman)"
<utilityworld at ominous-valve.com> wrote:

> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks
> to unsubscribe from this list
> 
> L.A. had a bunch of these voice machines when they
> were still relatively
> rare and otherwise used mostly by movie theaters. 
> Another famous one had
> been around so long that it was called VERMONT from
> the former letter
> prefix, and indeed that's what you dialed to get it.
>  You got a cheerful
> voice saying, "Hello, you have dialed VERMONT at
> 10760 Rose," followed by a
> joke.  10760 Rose was and is a large apartment
> building in West L.A..
> 
> There was another one called Ben.  Just Ben.  I have
> long since forgotten
> the number.  He was always very happy.  Almost
> disgustingly so.
> 
> By then the only letter exchange was the Catholic
> Archdiocese downtown,
> TRinity, and the only thing on it was Dial-A-Prayer,
> TR 4361.  Didn't even
> have a number in the prefix.  That's old.
> 
> The only thing I remember on ZZZZZZ was some soft
> music and a parody of that
> old commercial, "This moment of softness is brought
> to you by ZZZ, ZZZ!"
> 
> The one that was really popular with phone phreaks,
> though, was a General
> Telephone internal number that did nothing but run a
> loop, "Five cents,
> bing.  Ten cents, bing bing.  Twenty-five cents,
> bong."  (Insert appropriate
> ancient pay phone bell noises.)  A test line they'd
> never bothered to turn
> off?  General still had a few stepping offices and
> it was phone phreak
> heaven.
> 
> -hugh
> 
> 
>
______________________________________________________________
> Spooks mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm
> Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net
> -
> Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete
> information about Spy Numbers Stations
> 


My flash fiction, large work excerpts, and nonfiction commentaries are at http://benchilada.livejournal.com or in your inbox: http://www.yahoogroups.com/groups/compositemolecules 
--- 
AIM: benchilada
YAHOO: benchilada at ameritech.net
MSN: yardgnome at hotmail.com
--- 
Photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchilada