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Telephone Identification, Repair & Restoration => Telephone Restoration Projects and Techniques => Number/Dial Cards/Faceplates and Paper Attachments => Topic started by: unbeldi on October 31, 2013, 08:50:49 PM

Title: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on October 31, 2013, 08:50:49 PM
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Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: LarryInMichigan on October 31, 2013, 09:11:28 PM
Perhaps it was someone's mother-in-law's phone ;D

Larry
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: TelePlay on October 31, 2013, 09:20:53 PM
Have you tried calling the number now, after dark, today, October 31st?
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on October 31, 2013, 09:21:22 PM
I thought it may have been Marilyn.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: tallguy58 on October 31, 2013, 10:18:38 PM
Well, reverse lookup for that area code does return a person.


Try it and see...I'm not opening myself up to a lawsuit by posting the result.


(540) 548-0130
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on October 31, 2013, 11:06:06 PM
Quote from: tallguy58 on October 31, 2013, 10:18:38 PM
Well, reverse lookup for that area code does return a person.
Try it and see...I'm not opening myself up to a lawsuit by posting the result.
(540) 548-0130
Well, that area code is only about 20 years old.  I have no idea how old the dial card is. The phone is over 50 years old now.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: dsk on November 01, 2013, 07:06:45 AM
At least you may find Hell at the map, it's in Norway  ;)

https://maps.google.no/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=google+maps+hell,+norway&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x466d16fb3ae6fd6d:0x1596b57897c52a6b,Hell&gl=no&ei=pIpzUuCgHs7BtAbAzoGgDg&ved=0CCwQ8gEwAA

or

http://alturl.com/2bwqg

dsk
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: twocvbloke on November 01, 2013, 07:38:54 AM
And of course, the Devil's Arse (names as such cos of the sounds emitted when rainwater drains away!!) is in Caslteton, Derbyshire, if you really needed to see it.... :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Cavern
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: dsk on November 01, 2013, 11:07:36 AM
Its always a way out of it, or  ???
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Hell_norway_sign.jpg/220px-Hell_norway_sign.jpg)

The picture may be seen at the Norwegian Wikipedia.  http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell (http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell)

The way of spelling is rather old, but Norwegian and are quite popular among tourists.
Th location is the old railway-station at Hell. Gods-expedition are where you deliver or pick up grater parcels or luggage sent (here) by train. (cargo handling)

dsk
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: LarryInMichigan on November 01, 2013, 12:31:03 PM
There is a place in southeastern Michigan with that name: http://www.gotohellmi.com/ (http://www.gotohellmi.com/).

Larry
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Haf on November 01, 2013, 01:36:51 PM
..and the devil is running a dry cleaning store in Walla Walla- just call 666 :)

Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: xhausted110 on November 01, 2013, 01:38:15 PM
yep. and Hell,MI freezes over every year!
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Shovelhead on November 04, 2013, 10:49:07 PM
Quote from: xhausted110 on November 01, 2013, 01:38:15 PM
yep. and Hell,MI freezes over every year!

Just a bit south of me here.......
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: AE_Collector on November 05, 2013, 12:03:45 AM
Quote from: Haf on November 01, 2013, 01:36:51 PM
..and the devil is running a dry cleaning store in Walla Walla- just call 666 :)

Now you've done it. Look outside your window to see if Bill "Phonesrfun" Geurts is wandering your neighbourhood looking for you and that Walla Walla phone book!

Terry
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Phonesrfun on November 05, 2013, 12:51:36 AM
That dry cleaners is still in business at that very address, and I use them.  Their phone number now ends in 0662.  They probably had it changed to keep from being known as the dry cleaners from Hell.   :o

I had the pleasure of talking to Haf over the phone recently, and he mentioned the WW phone book.  I had him look up First National Bank in Walla Walla which, at that time was on 2nd and Alder and was listed with phone number 96.  I work in that very building today.

Haf's Walla Walla phone book is dated 1930.  Below is a picture of the building I currently work in during a notorious flood of March 31, 1931.  The second picture is when Seattle First National Bank occupied the same building in 1978.  The outside of the building looks much the same today as the 1978 picture.  Today, Banner Bank owns the building which it bought from Seattle First after Seafirst became part of Bank of America.  Like phone companies, banks seem to like to buy and sell (themselves).

In 1930, the phone company in Walla Walla was located in an old building that is now a parking lot. (3rd picture)

Sorry for the off-topic photos.

By the way, it was great to talk to Haf.  He was working on getting a pay phone to work and he was successful.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: AE_Collector on November 05, 2013, 10:37:55 AM
Nice looking building Bill....the Telephone office as well. Too  bad it didn't survive. In researching the history of British Columbia Telephone (BC Tel) I discovered numerous buildings that had survived that I assumed were long gone.

Terry
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: teka-bb on November 05, 2013, 03:46:48 PM
Quote from: dsk on November 01, 2013, 07:06:45 AM
At least you may find Hell at the map, it's in Norway  ;)

https://maps.google.no/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=google+maps+hell,+norway&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x466d16fb3ae6fd6d:0x1596b57897c52a6b,Hell&gl=no&ei=pIpzUuCgHs7BtAbAzoGgDg&ved=0CCwQ8gEwAA

or

http://alturl.com/2bwqg

dsk

I've been to (this Norwegian) Hell  ;D


Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on November 05, 2013, 05:01:15 PM
I'll never forget camping near Trondheim, close to Hell, on a trip north to Fauske a long time ago. It rained like Hell, and was the most devil-awful day and night camping in mud with a leaky tent, that I remember.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Sargeguy on November 05, 2013, 09:37:23 PM
I have never been to Hell but I have been Satan's Kingdom.  It's in Connecticut.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Contempra on November 05, 2013, 09:39:42 PM
Quote from: teka-bb on November 05, 2013, 03:46:48 PM
Quote from: dsk on November 01, 2013, 07:06:45 AM
At least you may find Hell at the map, it's in Norway  ;)

https://maps.google.no/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=google+maps+hell,+norway&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x466d16fb3ae6fd6d:0x1596b57897c52a6b,Hell&gl=no&ei=pIpzUuCgHs7BtAbAzoGgDg&ved=0CCwQ8gEwAA

or

http://alturl.com/2bwqg

dsk

I've been to (this Norwegian) Hell  ;D



Highway to hell.................different than the ... highway to heaven :)
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on November 05, 2013, 10:16:33 PM
Quote from: Contempra on November 05, 2013, 09:39:42 PM
Highway to hell.................different than the ... highway to heaven :)
Which is more traveled?
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on November 05, 2013, 10:23:56 PM
From one of my original dial-center cards, I learned that Hell is apparently a member of a 4L-3N numbering plan:
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on November 05, 2013, 10:37:20 PM
Quote from: unbeldi on November 05, 2013, 10:23:56 PM
From one of my original dial-center cards, I learned that Hell is apparently a member of a 4L-3N numbering plan:
Oh, I tried to find where this place is... not on the PSTN, afaik, but found it on C*Net with the country code of +1.

Interesting.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Contempra on November 05, 2013, 10:54:46 PM
Quote from: unbeldi on November 05, 2013, 10:16:33 PM
Quote from: Contempra on November 05, 2013, 09:39:42 PM
Highway to hell.................different than the ... highway to heaven :)
Which is more traveled?


..........Neither one nor the other because l, hell does not exist according to the Bible and sky person not go except 144, 000 people on Earth according to the bible also.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: dsk on March 05, 2016, 05:42:27 PM
It is there: http://tinyurl.com/zbo9fjd
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Phonesrfun on March 06, 2016, 12:55:07 AM
Dag:

That's interesting, but that Hell is pretty frosty in the winter compared to popular notions of what Hell "should be" like, although none of us really know (yet)   ;D

Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: dsk on March 06, 2016, 03:08:25 AM
The vikings claimed it to be extremely cold.  ;)
dsk
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Pourme on March 06, 2016, 07:16:17 AM
This is one Hell of a conversation..... ;D
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: TelePlay on March 06, 2016, 09:32:33 AM
Quote from: Phonesrfun on March 06, 2016, 12:55:07 AM
Dag:

That's interesting, but that Hell is pretty frosty in the winter compared to popular notions of what Hell "should be" like, although none of us really know (yet)   ;D

Question, does this place ever open?   ;)
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: andre_janew on March 06, 2016, 11:57:38 AM
Teka-bb should know.  After all, he's been to Hell and back!


Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Phonesrfun on March 06, 2016, 03:53:59 PM
Quote from: TelePlay on March 06, 2016, 09:32:33 AM

Question, does this place ever open?   ;)


Hell no.
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: AE_Collector on March 06, 2016, 04:02:46 PM
The "Hell" Post Office was open in Hell Grand Cayman Caribbean! I know many of you think the US is full of Hell Post Offices but the USPS wont put signs up out front to that effect. And the bottom picture is the landscape that gave the area the name "Hell".

Terry
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: TelePlay on March 06, 2016, 04:51:15 PM
Just for fun, I put "hell" into Google translate for conversion from Norwegian to English and what I got was the word . .

. . . "successfully"

Dag, I know Hell is just a name but is that the literal translation?
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: twocvbloke on March 06, 2016, 05:36:11 PM
So when people tell others to go there, then that must mean they're suggesting to successfully open a cayman islands bank account then?  ;D
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: dsk on March 07, 2016, 12:42:53 AM
The Norwegian word for Hell is "Helvete" Hell may in different situations have lots of meanings.  If something "er på hell" it is coming closer to the end (of a project, an era ...)usually with a negative view.  To have luck could be translated int Norwegian. Å ha hell.
I did not feel successfully as a good translation, because the success might came of hard work, and not luck and random happenings too.

dsk
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Fabius on March 07, 2016, 09:12:17 AM
Quote from: dsk on March 07, 2016, 12:42:53 AM
The Norwegian word for Hell is "Helvete"

According to Wikipedia Helvete is also a record shop in Oslo, Norway, related to Early Norwegian black metal scene. Black metal scene? Maybe that is hell.

I don't believe in heaven and I pray there ain't no hell. (Three Dog Night)
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: unbeldi on March 07, 2016, 10:07:45 AM
Well, whoever it was that wrote the title phrase onto my dial number card, created a lively dialog decades later.

Surely the person had no idea that the phone that bore this card could conceivably have been installed at the Kennedy Wexford estate in Atoka, VA.  Is that where HELL was ?
Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: TelePlay on March 07, 2016, 07:45:08 PM
Quote from: Fabius on March 07, 2016, 09:12:17 AM
Quote from: dsk on March 07, 2016, 12:42:53 AM
The Norwegian word for Hell is "Helvete"

According to Wikipedia Helvete is also a record shop in Oslo, Norway, related to Early Norwegian black metal scene. Black metal scene? Maybe that is hell.

I don't believe in heaven and I pray there ain't no hell. (Three Dog Night)

You thinking of Blood, Sweat & Tears "And When I Die" lyrics?

I'm not scared of dying
And I don't really care
If it's peace you find in dying
Well, then let the time be near

If it's peace you find in dying
And if dying time is here just bundle up my coffin
'Cause it's cold way down there
I hear that it's cold way down there
Yeah, crazy cold way down there

And when I die, and when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on, to carry on

Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell
Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell

But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell
Yes, only my dying will tell, yeah, only my dying will tell

And when I die, and when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on, to carry on, yeah yeah

Give me my freedom for as long as I be
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me
And all I ask of dying is to go naturally
Oh, I want to go naturally

Here I go, hey hey
Here comes the devil right behind
Look out children
Here he comes, here he comes, hey

Don't want to go by the devil
Don't want to go by demon
Don't want to go by Satan
Don't want to die uneasy
Just let me go naturally

And when I die and when I'm dead, dead and gone
There'll be one child born
In our world to carry on, to carry on, yeah yeah

Title: Re: Direct line to Hell
Post by: Fabius on March 07, 2016, 10:36:19 PM
Quote from: TelePlay on March 07, 2016, 07:45:08 PM
Quote from: Fabius on March 07, 2016, 09:12:17 AM
Quote from: dsk on March 07, 2016, 12:42:53 AM
The Norwegian word for Hell is "Helvete"

I don't believe in heaven and I pray there ain't no hell. (Three Dog Night)

You thinking of Blood, Sweat & Tears "And When I Die" lyrics?

Opps!  :o