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New Area Code Will Be Implemented In Los Angeles
Would you date an 818? How about a 738? That's a new L.A. dilemma coming soon.
Area code 738 will be activated as an “overlay” of existing area codes 213 and 323, which serve downtown L.A., Alhambra, Bell, Bell Gardens, Beverly Hills, Commerce, Cudahy, Glendale, Hawthorne, Huntington Park, Inglewood, Lynwood, Maywood, Montebello, Monterey Park, Pasadena, Rosemead, South Gate, South Pasadena, Vernon, West Hollywood, and unincorporated portions of Los Angeles County, according to the agency. Instead, it will simply add a new area code to ensure that the phone service doesn’t run out of numbers. In a 1998 episode of “Seinfeld,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Elaine is rejected by a man after she gives him a phone number with the 646 area code.
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