LA is getting a new area code

[desertrunner]

I know Druff is into this stuff as well, so sharing. My long time opinion on these topic is to stop making new area codes and instead make the existing phone numbers 8 digits instead. Better to expand the the whole number by 1 than 3 and not need to keep adding new area codes.

Any ways, the new area code is 738.

https://www.foxla.com/news/los-angel...pq0qm6n97yk2c9

[dmndkutr]

[Dan Druff]

Great clip of Homer above.

I'm going to reject that shitty area code, just like I've been rejecting 424 and 747 all this time.

This is an overlay, not a split.

This will be the 39th (!!) area code in California. Some states still have one.

The original California area codes were:

916 (far northern California)
415 (Bay Area and central California)
213 (Los Angeles, San Diego, and southern California)

714 is almost an original, splitting from 213 in 1951, just four years after the original three were created. At the time, 714 became Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernadino, and the eastern area of California up to where 916 began.

When I moved to LA in 1973, southern California consisted of 213 (LA), 714 (see above), and 805 (Ventura/Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo/Newhall/Palmdale).

It stayed that way until 1982, when 619 split from 714, and became San Diego area and that eastern strip described above. Then 213 split again in 1984, with the valley taking 818. Six years later in 1990, the area where I lived went from 213 to 310.

When filling out a dumb form in college which contained a bunch of touchy-feely, intrusive life questions, one of them asked for my life goal. I wrote, "To have sex with a girl from every area code in California".

At the time this would have been doable, but over 30 years later, that would require a minimum of 38 (soon to be 39) partners, and that's if you don't duplicate any. So it looks like I failed.

[country978]

I still remember my 1st phone number - it was 9-9090. It wasn't until sometime after my earliest memories that we'd need to dial 249-9090 and then not until many years later did a person need to dial an area code. Dialing an area code in those days meant long distance charges.

[desertrunner]

In 1990-1991, I lived in El Centro, CA and had a 619 from San Diego County. Imperial County then went to 760, if I remember correctly.

[desertrunner]

Druff- You's like this...

[herbertstemple]

I still remember my 1st phone number - it was 9-9090. It wasn't until sometime after my earliest memories that we'd need to dial 249-9090 and then not until many years later did a person need to dial an area code. Dialing an area code in those days meant long distance charges.

When I was a kid you only had to dial the last four digits of someone's phone number to call them within that exchange.