>I guess this dates me. It was a New York City telephone exchange -- the
>expanded form of "BU-8". The combination of two letters and a number,
>before the 4-digit main number, was later changed to three numbers as it is
>today. The two-letter symbol was usually referred to in conversation by the
>full name (often based on a New York City neighborhood). Chelsea was CH,
>Gramercy was GR, etc., and BU was Butterfield, though just why Butterfield
>was picked I don't know.
>
>Hugh C. MacDougall
>Secretary/Treasurer
>James Fenimore Cooper Society
>8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016
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>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: upstate ny films
>> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 10:43 PM
>>
>> Here's a New York trivia question (inspired by the movie list) for the
>list;
>> All of us know the movie >Butterfield 8<.  What is the significance of
>> "Butterfield 8"?  Where does that term come from?
>>
>> Jim Maguire
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Butterfield 8 followed Atwater 9, if memory serves. Others I recall were
Endicott (West side), Longacre (mid-town) Trafalger (Wall Street area),
Yukon (Eat side).

Anyone remember others?