Something interesting happened soon after the offices of the Rice Institute moved to the Esperson Building (seen recently here). We got our first dial telephone!
I love the huffy tone of this letter but I do wonder why we needed an unlisted phone number.
Bonus: Inauguration prep! Since Covid we’ve gone several years without commencement prep so the cleanup is really needed.
I arrived on campus in 1956, when letter prefixes were still being used. My recollection is that FA stood for Fannin. If so, it was changed somewhere along the line. As I recall, Rice’s Main Street telephone number was JAckson something.
Rice had many of the JAckson 7 4xxx numbers.
I found it odd that many of the remaining 4xxx numbers were assigned to the Memorial City Mall Sears store.
No phone frame closer?
The many mysteries of TPC/Ma Bell.
I wish you’d fix the headline.
That obsessive/compulsive trait serve you well at Rice, Bill?
(Also ‘70 and Hanszen