Evan Doorbell's Phone Trips
Raw Tapes - New York Preservation

 

Raw tapes are tapes that Evan hasn’t narrated. These are for advanced listening audiences, as many things you will hear will not be explained. But many of these concepts have been explained in the production (narrated) tapes.

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Number		 FLAC MP3 Year
Recorded		 Description
0001 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1978

212-885 City Island side A
212-989 West 18th #1 Crossbar Side B
"Quick Save" quickly getting 989 on tape before pay phones converted to ESS
0002A Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1978 Side A - JUdson 6 #1 Crossbar (West 50th Street Manhattan)
0002B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1978 Side B - JUdson 6 #1 Crossbar (West 50th Street Manhattan)
0003Y Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1977 Calls from 212-628 East 79th Street #5 crossbar calling Manhattan & Bronx trying to get calls to go through York and Amsterdam tandems
0008 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Nov 1976 BUckminster 4 Panel in Brooklyn
212-789 #1 Crossbar in Brooklyn
212-656 #1 Crossbar in Jersey City
0009 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Jun/Jul 1976 Farmingdale Tape 1. Calls made from Bill's house in Farmingdale. (More on Tape 0083.)
0010 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Jun/Jul 1976 Farmingdale Tape 3. Some from Bill's line, some from Bill's mother's line. (More on Tape 0143.)
0022 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1977 Calling the Tremont sector tandem from 628 East 79th Street #5 Crossbar
0024 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Jan 1976 Ben playing with Vesey Tandem 2 via Queens Tandem
Queens Tandem & Broadway reroutes
Far Rockaway & Hollis 7A announcements
0027A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Late 1975 / Early 1976 Side A (Version 2)
Queens & Richmond Hill sectors via Kingston #5 Crossbar tandem
Busy Signal "exchequer" in Whitestone ESS
"Jucing" off RP trunks
"Jucing" off Richmond Hill tandem
0027B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Late 1975 / Early 1976 NYC via White Plains 1 tandem & Kingston Crossbar #5 tandem
0030 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Oct 1976 Jamaica (Queens) 212-526 #1 Crossbar
Laurelton (Queens) 212-276 #5 Crossbar
0041 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 June 1977 West 73rd Street 5XB to NYC Panels dialed as 212+ via Midtown Tandem
0042Y FLAC MP3 June 1977 Calls from West 73rd Street 5XB
Clanging noise intra-office call to 1XB
Panel via Midtown tandem: West 73rd Street
Area Code 914 271 through 428 via Bronx
0042Z FLAC MP3 June 1977 West 73rd Street 5XB calling Hempstead Tandem 1 Centrex codes 574, 531, 560 and 299 via N1 carrier
Northern New Jersey Area Code 201 941 through 950 via Vesey Tandem 1
0047
(Side A)		 FLAC MP3 1975 Historic tandem recordings fron NA tandems - intercepting 2nd Ave central office fire, Brooklyn 212-377 panel during ANI sender failure
0047
(Side B)		 FLAC MP3 1975 St. Louis MIS test numbers, NY PSC test numbers, Broadway 4A recordings for 2nd Ave. central office fire, southern California call repair service diverters.
0071Y Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1975 NY Telephone Newswire (Farmingdale ESS); NYC calls MFed into Deer Park tandems
0071Z Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1975 Ben calling from Hempsted 516-485 #5 crossbar, calling 311 and Lynbrook #5 crossbars; East 97th street #1 crossbar 212-876 calling Albmarle Road office selector tandem area in Brooklyn.
0083 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Jun/Jul 1976 Farmingdale 5XBs Tape 2 (More on Tape 0010)
0138 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1978? Staten Island South 212-984 #5 Crossbar
0159Y Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Early 1976 Staten Island New Dorp 212-351 #5 crossbar
0164A Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1975 212-923 panel (west 176th street Manhattan); Manhattan intercept operator talking to friend; Minneapolis AIS special announcement 97 (noisy); Bell System answering machine in Long Beach repair bureau; Tennessee office code (901-239) that works as direct access to Corinth MS toll center
0164B Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1975 Hempsted #1 Crossbar; Lynbrook #5 crossbar; Use of the South Hampton SD (repair service diverter); sounds from within the Cabot, VT Contel step CDO, #1 Step in Barry, VT, Bell step CDO with new tones in Plainfield, VT; Contel Step in Marshfield, VT.
0166 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1978 FIeldstone-7 #1 Crossbar (Floral Park) serving Queens
0201A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Bronx 212-588 #1 crossbar
Staten Island 212-984 #5XB
0201B FLAC MP3 1977 or 1978 More Staten Island South 212-984 #5 crossbar & Staten Island New Dorp 212-351 #5 crossbar
0228 FLAC MP3 Jan 1978 Grand Concourse Bronx #1 XB (212-294)
Atlanta AIS reports
Long distance rejecting radio monitoring device
0246 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1980 Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls NYC over N1 (and probably some ON) carrier: Manhattan-Bronx via York Tandem; Brooklyn-Queens border area via Bushwick tandem
0260 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1980 Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls NYC over N1 carrier: Brooklyn-Queens border area via Bushwick tandem; Centrex via Mount Vernon XBT to Vesey tandem 2
0274 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Mid 1977 LD calls to New Jersey 609 NPA from 628 #5 crossbar via NY 7,  A few local calls from 628 #5 crossbar, Intra-office calling between SChuyler 4 & TRafalgar 7 lines in the W73 Street Panel
0310 & 0312 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Unknown Lynbrook 516-599 #1 Crossbar
0314 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Aug 1976 to Spring 1977 Lynbrook 516-599 #1 Crossbar
0316 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 Late 1976 or early 1977 Lynbrook 516-599 #1 Crossbar
0320 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1977 West 73rd Street 5XB calling Manhattan Panels and Area Code 914 (codes 651 through 658) via Bronx
0376 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1980 Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls New Jersey via N3 carrier to Newark-Jersey tandem 2, then NYC via N1 to York tandem.
0385 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 August 1977 Staten Island South 212-984 #5 Crossbar (continued from Tape 0138)
0407 Part 1

Part 2

 Part 1

Part 2

 1977 West 73rd Street 5XB calling New Jersey Area Code 201 (codes 344 through 353) via Vesey Tandem 3
Calls to Panels from East 79th Street 5XB
0417A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1978 Manhattan West 50th JUdson-6 #1 Crossbar
0417B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Recordings from West 50th Judson-6 212-586 #1 Crossbar
Ringback circuit from as dialed Bronx Tratman Ave #1 Crossbar 212-892
Mount Vernon #1 Crossbar 914-664
0426A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1976 or 1977 Yonkers 914-476 #5 Crossbar made by Ben from Bruce's house (Side 1)
0426B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1976 or 1977 Yonkers 914-476 #5 Crossbar made by Ben from Bruce's house (Side 2)
0434 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 June 1977 West 73rd Street 5XB calling Area Code 914 (codes 256 through 266) via Bronx
West 73rd Street Panel calling Area Code 201 (codes 287 through 289) via Vesey Tandem 3
Panels via Midtown Tandem
0464 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar
0483 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Unknown Ben calling 212-390 (Staten Island DID code) from Bell Harbor central office
Calling 212-923 buzzers from Ben's house
212-326 Fairview Panel
 
0489 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Unknown Mamaroneck NY #5 crossbar calls NYC Centrex over N1 and N3 carrier: Vesey tandem 2 via Mount Vernon XBTs N1; Amsterdam tandem 2 & Tenth Avenue tandem 1 via Mount Vernon's N3, Bushwick tandem via direct N1, plus some T-carrier to various Centrex.
 
0640 Part 1

Part 2

Part 1 (alt mix)

Part 2 (alt mix)

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Part 2

Part 1 (alt mix)

Part 2 (alt mix)

 Mid 1977 & May 1982 Mid 1977  Intra-office calling between TRafalgar 7 & SChuyler 4 lines in the West 73rd Street Panel

Number ID on "311" instead of "958" from TR 7 Panel.

May 1982  LD calls to the last Panel in Newark NJ from an Atlanta #1ESS

(Two mixes are provided, listen to description on Part 1)
0650 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1977 Calls from West 73rd Street 5XB
NYC Panels via Midtown tandem
Northern NJ Area Code 201 (codes 961 through 998) via Vesey Tandem 1
Eastern Suffolk Area Code 516-325 via Bronx to South Hampton XBT
0672A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Manhattan Thayer Street  212-569 #1 Crossbar (Side 1)
0672B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Manhattan Thayer Street  212-569 #1 Crossbar (Side 1)
0676 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar, 411 from West 73rd Panel 212-877 during a snow emergency, Long Island City #1 Crossbar 212-392
0687A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Trapman Ave. (212-892) and Grand Concourse (212-294) Bronx #1 XB
0687B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan 1978 Grand Concourse (212-294) Bronx #1 XB
0691B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan 1978 Manhattan 212-697 East 37th #1 Crossbar
Brooklyn 212-856 #1 Crossbar
Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar
0692A Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 Manhattan 212-787 #1 Crossbar
Mount Vernon 914-664 #1 Crossbar (Side A)
0692B Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Jan/Feb 1978 914-664 Mount Vernon #1 Crossbar (Side B)
0817 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 March 1974 Ben's Centrex Tape
0914 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 1974 New York Step by Step PBX recordings
GBM28-1-01 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Middle and late 1975 Conversation with Bill
New Garden City ESS
Westbury 997 Sickly sounding loop checker test (moved to Garden City)
Long Beach balance test loop around
Deer Park 677 Offical 33 Loop around (with Bill)
425 Broadstreet 1XB to Bronx Intercept
5XB Inter marker group call
Elaron and SD call diverters
GBM28-3-03 FLAC MP3 Late 1975 or early 1976 Talking on 923 buzzer with Ben via Kingston 5XB Tandem to Borough tandem route
GBM39-1 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Late 1976 or early 1977 NYC Centrex codes 920, 270, 780, 340, and 553. Dialed from the West 73rd street Manhattan Panel, recorded directly to open reel by Evan Doorbell in late 1976 or early 1977.
GBM39-2 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Late 1976 or early 1977 NYC Centrex codes 553, 558, 551, 870, and 360. Dialed from the West 73rd street Manhattan Panel, recorded directly to open reel by Evan Doorbell in late 1976 or early 1977.
GBM39-3&4 Part 1

Part 2

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Part 2

 Late 1976 or early 1977 NYC Centrex codes 360, 530, 559, 598, and 960. Dialed from the West 73rd street Manhattan Panel, recorded directly to open reel by Evan Doorbell in late 1976 or early 1977.

 

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