Yes, I actually watched it not too long ago. It was quite lurid. She’s some kind of call girl or something, it wasn’t really clear to me what was going on.
I had a Butterfield 8 number for a while.
Everyone remembers their old childhood number because it was drilled into us so we could tell someone if we were lost. Communications were far from sophisticated.
My two sisters were long-distance operators at the time when you needed an operator—no area codes. They had some funny stories and jokes. And people were always getting angry when they got disconnected. Also, you sometimes had to wait to be put through—the circuits were busy.
It paid well, but they had to work on holidays.