County 911 office being remodeled

While there’s a generation gap when it comes to rotary-dial landline telephones and digital or even voice-activated cellphones, telephone numbers have been part of our lives since Alexander Graham Bell’s first call to Watson in 1876.

Over the years, several telephone numbers have emerged as part of our cultural lexicon.

• In the 1940s, Big Band leader Glenn Miller made New York City’s Pennsylvania Hotel famous with a song about the telephone number “Pennsylvania 6-5000.”

• Alfred Hitc...