Glenn Miller’s PE6-5000

Attention Glenn Miller fans… Remember that famous song PEnnyslvania 6-5000? Well did you know that this telephone number is said to be the oldest and continuing phone number in New York City? The number still belongs to the Hotel Pennsylvania where the Glenn Miller Orchestra played many times and where he got his inspiration for this song. Of course, the days of rotary phones are behind us and so the number reads 736-5000 now. In fact, the PE exchange was the first to switch from letters to number system.

The hotel has been around since 1919. Ah, if the walls could only speak.

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