This highly logical midwesterner's mind was boggled
when he visited San Francisco years ago and discovered
that the street addresses were based on Market Street...
which runs at a diagonal. So you could be at 100 (whatever
street) walk to the same position on the next block and be
at 140 (whichever street). As a visitor new to the city, it
was "real fun" trying to find my way around...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Ellwanger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:51 AM
Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Way OT: California Question
On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:21 PM, David Bruggeman wrote:
There is also the numbering system used in towns around Salt Lake
City and into southern Idaho. Some major streets close to the main
temple (or the first temple established) are named by their distance
from the temple. So you can be at 540 West 400 South, with the
second part of that being the street name. Way to easy to get
turned about, at least for me.
It's not really that much different than cities where the addresses
are based on distances from the river, or from the train tracks, or
from an intersection that someone 150 years ago decided was the center
of town. "540 West 400 South" translates to "540 W. 4th Street South"
or "540 4th Street SW" in various non-Mormon locales.
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Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]>
<http://www.ellwanger.tv>
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