9/18/2023 0 Comments Compton area code 213213: Staples Center and LAPD headquarters.626: The Tournament of Roses parade, and that other valley.818: The Valley Girl boonies and Bing Crosby’s R-1 paradise.661: The cowboy boonies and Edwards Air Force Base.Phone scammers have been masking with this area code, probably because they figure people are curious to know who’s calling them from another income bracket. 310: The enviably rich, and the plastic surgeons who enable them.They still lend themselves to stereotypes: Gratifyingly, the numerologist found Manhattan’s coveted 212 represented “a certain pettiness … the Ross Perot of area codes.” Exhibit A: the “Seinfeld” episode where Elaine is so desperate to recover her lost 212 phone self that she takes over the 212 number of her dead neighbor. Since the “big bang” from the original 213 spalled off so many area codes, what have those identities become? In 1994, the writer of a Times op-ed explained, perhaps tongue in cheek, what a numerologist had told him: That 213, the original hardcore heart of L.A., is the area code of the working class, “without pretensions.” How could the numerologist omit the fact that 213 is also the area code for civic Los Angeles, which is almost exclusively about political pretensions? The telephones of 310 occupy a more “highbrow, ritualized, sterile environment,” and the phone folks of 818 - reaching from valley to valley then, the San Fernando to the San Gabriel - are “old-fashioned stand-up values” incarnate.
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