The phone numbers on the missing poster

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Bev Vincent

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Actually, WAS it ever removed from the American edition?

I wonder if they would change it in foreign countries, as not so many would make an expensive international call. I wonder if it could still be in use, after so many years?

When I search for the phone number in the novel at Amazon, I find that the second triple has been replaced with "555" in the current edition.
 

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When I search for the phone number in the novel at Amazon, I find that the second triple has been replaced with "555" in the current edition.

Thanks. Gonna see if they did that here too if I can find a copy.

Concerning adresses. For example the Club from The Breathing Method is at 249B East 35th Street.

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Is this an actual adress? I think the count of the street goes much higher than that, so it should be an actual number. It's hard to find maps though that have house numbers on them.
 

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Could it be that there are no letters after house numbers in New York. So there actually might be a 249 but not a 249B?

According to the text the main character gets out of a cab at the corner of 2nd (which should be 2nd Avenue I assume) and 35th, and then has to walk halfway the block to the building at 249B which locates the Club.
 

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Could it be that there are no letters after house numbers in New York. So there actually might be a 249 but not a 249B?

According to the text the main character gets out of a cab at the corner of 2nd (which should be 2nd Avenue I assume) and 35th, and then has to walk halfway the block to the building at 249B which locates the Club.
One of the reasons he has started being more ambiguous about locations in recent books is for this very reason, i.e. so that people don't try to find an actual place or correct him if he changes the geography to fit the story. :smile2:
 

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Thanks. Gonna see if they did that here too if I can find a copy.

Concerning adresses. For example the Club from The Breathing Method is at 249B East 35th Street.

Is this an actual adress? I think the count of the street goes much higher than that, so it should be an actual number. It's hard to find maps though that have house numbers on them.

You can type that into Google Maps and see the location. Of interest, perhaps -- it's about short 10 blocks from the New York version of the Dark Tower, 2 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, which is on Second Avenue at 46th.

The letter would indicate a unit or an apartment number. If it's a duplex, one half would be A and the other half B, for example.
 

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You can type that into Google Maps and see the location. Of interest, perhaps -- it's about short 10 blocks from the New York version of the Dark Tower, 2 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, which is on Second Avenue at 46th.

The letter would indicate a unit or an apartment number. If it's a duplex, one half would be A and the other half B, for example.

I've never used Google Maps, so not 100 % sure I used it right. I get as a result only 249 without the B:

https://www.google.nl/maps/place/249+E+35th+St,+New+York,+NY+10016,+Verenigde+Staten/@40.7457263,-73.977881,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25905c752d94f:0x967df3b3355cd693!8m2!3d40.7457263!4d-73.9756923

It is next to a Sushi Restaurant and further along is a Salvador Dali charicature mural. 249 seems to be something official: there is a white/red weaponshield and a white/red flag, anyone familiiar with it? I can't zoom in closely enough to read what kind of place it is unfortunately.

The Dutch text actually says the whole buillding is at 249B, not just a unit or apartment or duplex, which is kind of strange. Would a whole building have a letter added...
 

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Found what 249 is: it is the Permanent Mission of Malta to the United Nations. So, if it already was there back when he wrote it, he seems to have used an embassy adress and added the B. Seems quite random, but at least it's not a private home...
 

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In The Plant is a New York adress too, 490 Park Avenue. The adress of Zenith House (the paperback publishing house).
It should be here:

https://www.google.nl/maps/place/490+Park+Ave,+New+York,+NY+10022,+Verenigde+Staten/@40.7625612,-73.9700311,3a,15y,306.68h,93.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shh3d5nweOA4lDvVWUuKlhA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c258e55ce7fae1:0x3212d8b618db5eb4!8m2!3d40.7626621!4d-73.9700919

It's strange though that the numbering on the even side seems to go from 484 directly to 500 - 500 is the bank on the corner, which seems to be called 'D- bank', the D being green - probably familiar to Americans?
 

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...I find it odd that even after my grandparents have been gone for years, that I still clearly remember their old land-line numbers.....just a weird way of hanging onto them I guess.....
After my Grandma passed away late last year, my parents paid out dad's siblings and bought Grandma's house. They moved in this year and so now have Grandma's old number. ♥
 

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After my Grandma passed away late last year, my parents paid out dad's siblings and bought Grandma's house. They moved in this year and so now have Grandma's old number. ♥
...I've never had the nerve to dial either one of the numbers to see if they've gone to someone else.....I'd find myself so disappointed when one of them didn't answer....