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On 16-Mar-1958, Seattle changed over from 6 digit local phone numbers to 7 digit local numbers. Here is a table of the before-and-after. My source is the front cover of the first phone book that was issued after the cutover.

Seattle

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Adams Adams 2
Alder Atwater 3
Avalon West 5
Axminster Juniper 5
Axminster Juniper 6
Broadway Cedar 7
Capitol East 3
Cherry Cherry 3
Columbia Time 8
Dexter Sunset 4
East East 2
Elliott Main 3
Emerson Emerson 2
Evergreen Melrose 3
Fillmore Lakeview 4
Franklin East 4
Garfield Atwater 2
Gladstone Emerson 3
Hemlock Sunset 3
Holly West 7
Kenwood Lakeview 2
Lander Parkway 3
Logan Cherry 2
Main Main 2
Melrose Melrose 2
Minor East 5
Mohawk Parkway 5
Murdock Atwater 4
Mutual Mutual 2
Plaza Lakeview 5
Rainier Parkway 2
Seneca Main 4
Sunset Sunset 2
Swift Cherry 4
Twining Atwater 4
Vermont Lakeview 3
Wabash Emerson 4
West West 2

Bainbridge

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Viking Viking 2

Bellevue

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Gibson Glencourt 4
Porter Sherwood 6

Bothell (WCTC)

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Hunter Hunter 6

Des Moines

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Trinity Trinity 8
Gypsy Taylor 4

Halls Lake (WCTC)

including:

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Greenwood Prospect 8
Myrtle Prospect 6

Issaquah

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Exbrook Exbrook 2

Kirkland (WCTC)

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Vandyke Vandyke 2

Redmond (WCTC)

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Tucker Tucker 5

Renton

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Olive Alpine 5

Renton Boeing

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Broadway Cedar 7

Richmond Beach (WCTC)

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Lincoln Lincoln 2
Lincoln Lincoln 6