Restaurants, a brewery, tattoo parlor, club sports teams, real estate and design firms — dozens of local businesses embrace the 805 area code in their names and products, a number that means something ...

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Long ago, when the world was young and there were only landlines, one area code ruled them all, from the Mexican border to Bakersfield: 213. Then it began to divide and multiply. 714 was born, and 805 ...