At 08:53 PM 11/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hi All, This has turned into an interesting thread. Thanks Annette for the >info. on numbering buildings in London. Very curious <G>. My brother once >lived at 24-1/2 on some street.
That reminds me, I have an outside stairway to my back deck, and sometimes I get mail addressed to 1139-1/2. I guess some advertisers think there is an apartment on the house and made up a number for it. <G> The town I grew up in started with a square grid. Streets one way were numbered and the other way were the alphabet. After the town started growing, the railroad came through the valley, near the town, but at an angle to the town grid. Businesses immediately started up by the railroad and the streets there paralleled the tracks. There's 3 streets on one side and 2 on the other, named for the first 5 presidents, that don't fit the grid. The rest of the town grew to meet those streets resulting in 5-street intersections all along the edge of the business district. It seems that every time I return to that town for a visit, they have restructured the traffic movement on those intersections, with the 'through street' changed. I have to watch carefully for stop signs where there used to be a right-of-way. In the town where I live now, they started with alphabetical streets, but later gave them names of pioneers, keeping the first letters in order. Adams, Baker, Cowls, Davis, Evans, Ford, Galloway, Hembree, Irvine -- and so forth. Later developments used different naming plans -- developers' names and their kids, trees, flowers, famous golf courses. There seems to be no rules, as long as the city council approves. My street developed from the old Indian path that went through this area, thus ended up being named for the Indians (Yamhill) instead of a tree like the rest of them around me, so it lies between Cedar and Elm. Maybe they couldn't think of a good tree name that started with 'D' because these tree streets are also alphabetical. Actually, I'm surprised there are not more Indian names on the streets. They seem to name everything else with Indian names. An interesting note on the numbered streets in this town, when the town started, it had 5 numbered streets. Then, as the town grew, they realized they had numbered from east to west. But the west side of town led to a ravine that limited growth. The east side had lots of expansion room. So, the town council voted to reverse the numbers. 5th because 1st Street, and so forth. That gave them lots of new numbers for new streets. The few new streets that could go on the ravine side were named for famous presidents, in no particular order. Each town has it's own story. It's fun to read local history. Now, back to the lace pillows. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon - Happy Thanksgiving to all USA lacemakers!! Oregon Country Lacemakers Arachne Secret Pal Administrator Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
