Street Name Connections

[dewline]

Last weekend, I took a walking tour of Elmvale and Alta Vista. Towards the Elmvale end of things, there's a couple of streets named for title characters of Shakespeare's plays...





And the man himself who wrote those is commemorated in Vanier, a little ways north of Elmvale (using the oldest street-name sign that I could get a picture of):

Comments

[thewayne]

Very cool!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

There's a subdivision where all the streets are English Lit authors which makes it hilarious when people think they need to spell one.

Internal thought being, I haven't read them but I know which movement they were part of...

[dewline]

If memory serves, there's a similar subsection elsewhere in the Alta Vista district and I've visited and taken pix of those too. They should also be on my Flickr archives.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I expect it was a low stress way to name and feel the new streets would be acceptable addresses.

It is certainly better than naming every road some variation of the Same Tree. And I don't mean different species, mostly Lane versus Drive.

Ever since I saw a Euclid I've wanted an intersection of it and Eureka.

[notasupervillain]

I was hoping that Hamlet would cross at Rosencrantz or something fun like that!