Twin Peaks Usenet Archive

Subject: Re: What did Andy hear on the phone? was, RE. 10/27 Twin Peaks details
From: shippert@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tim Shippert)
Date: 1990-11-02, 12:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

lmolpus@bangkok.UUCP (Lane Molpus) writes:
> >
> >Andy failed to dial the Area Code (206) when he tried to phone Lucy
> >at her sister's.  206 is the Area Code for Tacoma; it it *not* the
> >Area Code for the part of Washington where Twin Peaks exists.
> >
> >He got the Abortion clinic by mistake.

	206 is the area code for western Washington.  Twin Peaks is
generally placed in the western part of the state (despite the "5 miles
west of the border" line in the pilot), where Snoqualmie is.  I would say
that 206 IS the right area code, at least in TV land.

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