tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559267652141702788.post1754424091679308367..comments2021-07-16T03:23:20.450-07:00Comments on Scarborough Newspaper Articles 1960 - 1995: 1960 - Telephone Exchanges become NumericalJ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09028469433639183617noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559267652141702788.post-39325391262700880772010-04-14T03:11:50.946-07:002010-04-14T03:11:50.946-07:00Seek LCBO Approval Of Hotel Plans
Scarborough is ...Seek LCBO Approval Of Hotel Plans<br /><br />Scarborough is to have a' new hotel—the first to be built in the Township for ten. years.<br /><br />The $200,000 building will be erected on a four and-a- half acre site, east of Scar borough Post Office, on Eglin- ton Avenue. The 25-bedroom hotel is being planned to allow for expansion to 50 rooms, sometimes in the future.<br /><br />The hotel is being developed by Post Motor Hotel Limited, who op- erate a hotel at Galt. It has been designed by Mendelow and Kay- wan, architects, of 1398 Eglinton West. Plans, approved by Scarbor- ough Planning Board, now have to go before the Liquor Control Board for its approval.<br /><br />The plans include a dining room, a banqueting hall, two beverage rooms—one for ladies, one for men —and facilities for a staff of 50, who will operate the hotel on a 24 hour-a-day basis.<br /><br />The land surrounding the build- ing is to be landscaped with gar- dens, and, possibly, a swimming pool. The building which will be air conditioned, will have masonry walls between bedrooms, broad- loom on the floors and special acoustic ceiling tiles—all aimed at deadening noise.<br /><br />The last hotel built in Scar- borough was the Knob Hill Hotel, also on Eglinton Avenue.<br /><br />It Will Be Seven Numbers With No Exchange Name<br />By NEWS STAFF REPORTER<br /><br />New subscribers on Scarborough's AXminster telephone exchange, this fall, will probably find that they have a sever digit number, instead of the usual two letters and five numbers. The News learned that the prefix is likely to be 291, in place of the present AXminster 1.<br /><br />Bell Telephone officials will hold discussions . within the next few weeks to decide whether 2,000 more terminals should be added to the exchange. If the decision is Yes, the all-number system will be introduced. It will be one of the first such exchanges in Ontario.<br /><br />Gradual Change<br /><br />There will be no longer large scale changeover from letters-num- ber to the all-number system. Bell Telephone Company say that any all-number system would have to be introduced -gradually. A spokes- man for the Company explained that private telephones now hold-ing the AX 1 prefix would remain the same, until the subscribers changed address, or number altera- tion became necessary for other reasons.<br /><br />Although the all-number system will take some years to complete, the system is being introduced now to avoid a crash program at a later date, when all-number dialing be comes common throughout North America.<br /><br />The system will open a whole new range of combinations, mak-ing it possible to use direct dis-tance dialing more extensively.<br /><br />People Accept Numbers<br /><br />The spokesman said that people are accepting the fact that all- number dialing has to be used eventually. "There are those who are sentimentally attached to their exchange name. But there was re- sistance to dialing when it was first introduced. Subscribers missed talking to the operator," he said.<br /><br />Tests conducted by the Bell Tele- phone Company have shown that it is easier to remember seven digits than letters and numbers.<br /><br />Chewing Gum And Bikinis - What Next?<br /><br />Only a few weeks back, Scarborough teenagers were flocking to the record shops to buy a disc entitled "My old man's a dustman", sung by Englishman Lonnie Done-gan.<br /><br />Now another Lonnie Done-gan record is selling like hot-cakes, although radio stations only started playing it a short time ago.<br /><br />The record? A novelty song, at least 25 years old, called "Does your chewing gun lose its flavor on the bedpost over-night".<br /><br />Competing with sales with the Donegan record last weekend, was a new one sung by Brian Hyland, called "Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yel-low polka dot bikini".Eric Dunbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06366844467971788291noreply@blogger.com