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Originally Posted by earlyfilm
First clue to the age is that Warwick's address, on the match cover, which has a postal zone in it, and no zip code.
Second thing is to understand something in the past, you have to think like in the past and remember that phone numbers were not standardized in length as they are now.
Nordtvedt - Bolmgren was a large furniture store in the 1940's at 243-245 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, and their phone exchange was "GENEVA" and their phone number was "1821"
They did not need a city or state in their address 'cause every one knew where they were located.
Jas.
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I knew about the non-zip postal code, but there were a lot of years with television and without zip codes. Also, I understood that Geneva was probably the exchange and not the town. This could give some tighter bound on the year if the store was in Chicago, because for most of that time Chicago had 7-digit name/numbers (e.g., my grandmother's phone exchange was BErkshire 7). Beyond that, I would have had to start guessing the city, because those Scandinavian names could easily come from many places including Chicago.
Google Earth street view shows an old brick building that is a theater-in-the-round, and has been painted blue, obscuring any signage that may have been there for the furniture store.