Question

[Charlie40]

Does anyone know if this is true or not that OKC has the nickname of the 405 ?

[Generals64]

Does anyone know if this is true or not that OKC has the nickname of the 405 ?

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Sure, if you're involved with an Hispanic Gang.....The Area Codes for larger cities in the U.S. have sometimes been given to the "Gang" population of the town.....Don't be so naiive to think we don't have a gang population in our fair town...

[Charlie40]

They were having a contest on the radio yesturday on K Love about someone being lost in what city and they mentioned this city is know for the nick name the 405 and the thunder and the hornets relocated here a few years ago where am I

[Jesseda]

i have heard on this rap song that was blasting really loud, mostly cuse words, and its kept saying, keeping it alive in the 405, i guess it was a song about okc

[rod4soonrs]

it's the area code

[Martin]

-M

[Charlie40]

Yes, 405 is the area code for Okc

[Bigrayok]

In Los Angeles they refer to numbered highways as the ______. For example, there is the 101 and the 405. I wonder if this has anything to do with refering to Oklahoma City as the 405 since L.A. gang lingo has had an influence on popular youth culure through music and other entertainment mediums.

Bigray in Ok

[rondvu]

The 405 area code was assigned to central Oklahoma due to the fact that Oklahoma Southwestern Bell's headquarter were located at 405 N Broadway Oklahoma City OK.
Per From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In order to facilitate direct dialing calls, the NANP was created and instituted in 1947 by AT&T, also known as the Bell System, the U.S. telephone semi-monopoly. At first, the codes were used only by long-distance operators; the first customer-dialed calls using area codes did not occur until November 10, 1951, when the first directly-dialed call was made from Englewood, New Jersey to Alameda, California.[4] Direct dialing was gradually instituted throughout the country, and by the mid-1960s, it was commonplace in most larger cities.

Originally there were only 86 codes, with the biggest population areas getting the numbers that took the shortest time to dial on rotary telephones.[5] That is why New York City was given 212, Los Angeles given 213, and Chicago 312, while four areas received the then-maximum number of 21 clicks: South Dakota (605), North Carolina (704), South Carolina (803), and Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Maritime Provinces (902). Additionally, in the original plan a middle digit of zero generally indicated the number was for an entire state or province with one area code, while a middle digit of one indicated that it was for a smaller region.

At first, area codes were all in the form N-Y-X, where N is any number 2-9, Y is 0 or 1, and X is any number 1-9 (if Y is 0) or any number 2-9 (if Y is 1). The restriction on N saves 0 for calling the operator, and 1 for signaling a long-distance call. The restriction on the second digit, limiting it to 0 or 1, was designed to help telephone equipment recognize the difference between a three-digit "area code" (with 0 or 1 as the second digit) and the three-digit "exchange" prefix (which had avoided 0 or 1 for the second digit, due to restrictions in existing switching equipment). For example, when a caller dialed "202-555-1212", the switching equipment would recognize that "202" was an area code because of the middle 0, and route the call appropriately. If a caller were to dial 345-6789, the 4 would be recognized as a long-distance call within the area code and routed as such, without waiting to see or guessing at how many digits the caller meant to enter.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, NANPA (then still part of Bellcore, which is now Telcordia Technologies) began to urge and later require all long-distance calls within each area to prefixed with the digit 1 to distinguish them from local calls, so that badly-needed prefixes with 0 or 1 in the middle could be assigned to local telephone exchanges. Also, since it had nearly run out of area codes using the above formula, it allowed the assignment of area codes using the form N-1-0, such as 210 in the San Antonio, Texas, area and 410 in eastern Maryland. Therefore, someone calling from San Jose to Los Angeles before the change would have dialed 213-555-1234 and after the change 1-213-555-1234, which then allowed 213 to be used as an exchange prefix in the San Jose area.

[windowphobe]

Actually, in the original scheme, 405 was assigned to the whole state; 918 wasn't spun off until 1953.

[Generals64]

Saw a store downtown with clothing that was just 405....What's with that????

[FritterGirl]

I know of a couple of bloggers and folks on twitter who use "the 405" as a colloquial euphemism for central Oklahoma / OKC.

I haven't checked with any of them to see where they got this from, or if the influence is at all gang-related, but these are professional people, so my guess is they are just trying to come up with a new, fun way to express OKC.

[Generals64]

I know of a couple of bloggers and folks on twitter who use "the 405" as a colloquial euphemism for central Oklahoma / OKC.

I haven't checked with any of them to see where they got this from, or if the influence is at all gang-related, but these are professional people, so my guess is they are just trying to come up with a new, fun way to express OKC.

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THAT'S FINE (I GUESS) But, there is a Gang in OKC called The 405.....they are NOT very funny people.....

[papaOU]

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THAT'S FINE (I GUESS) But, there is a Gang in OKC called The 405.....they are NOT very funny people.....

Sure they are. They are a big joke!!!!