Comments on: Edisto Farms Dairy, Trenholm Plaza, etc: 1960s

By: Homer

Homer — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:16:05 +0000

I don't remember any other exchanges but Alpine and Sunset. As a kid the 252 exchange was all the way out in Irmo. The first phone number I remember us having was 252-9447. Funny I can remember that but I can't remember what I had for dinner last night!! It was a party line and a nosy little old lady down the street would always eavesdrop on everyone's conversations.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:15:18 +0000

I remember the Alpine numbers - they were the 252, 254 numbers I think.

By: tonkatoy

tonkatoy — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:28:45 +0000

I wonder why they went away from doing phone numbers that way.

What was the 77X prefix?

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:47:22 +0000

Beth, I know the 78 corresponded to the SUnset numbers, like 782 and 788.

Who recalls this one ALpine 2-2177

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:15:46 +0000

Love those old phone numbers - mine was Sunset as the prefix --

By: tonkatoy

tonkatoy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:40:39 +0000

Terry, I think ALpine was understood to be in front of that number.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:00:40 +0000

tonkatoy, I like the 5 digit phone number painted on the truck in your link above.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:06:11 +0000

In the early 70's, they had the best orange sherbert and a really cool baseball pinball type machine in the back room. Went to many birthday parties there as a kid.

By: tonkatoy

tonkatoy — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:28:13 +0000

http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/hensel/id/1744/rec/1198

By: William

William — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:18:53 +0000

I used to work at the Edisto Ice Cream Parlor in '72 when I was a junior at Flora H.S. Coburg Daries owned it then, but everyone still just called it Edisto. I left there to work at Constan Car Wash just up the street. Coburg ended up selling the parlor to the manager that had run the parlor for several years. I remember he turned the party room in the back to serve a buffet style lunch that lasted for a short time before he finally shut the place down.