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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2019-08-27 10:47 am

Street Name Connections

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...

Othello Avenue

Hamlet and Saunderson

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):

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[personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart 2019-08-29 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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.