Dwight

I moved to Houston about 1951 when my dad went to U of H. We lived first in a Military trailer and then in the Military style barracks set up for Korean war vets. I remember that the Alphabetical exchanges were set up for each part of town. Downtown Main St was CAPITOL, off Main businesses were CENTRAL. Bellaire people Were MOHAWK, and when we moved to the Heights We were UNDERWOOD, I just looked up a old directory and found about 36 Exchange names. You used the first two (2) letters of the Exchange Name and then a third number followed by four (4) numbers. For instance UN2 5759 would be an Underwood number in the 713 Area exchange. My friends in Bellaire were always 666 exchange numbers or part of the MOHAWK exchange. Back then going into another city one could tell where people were logistically situated by their Exchanges.