There has been a bit of renaming downtown in the last few years. We have to remember to call Town Lake something else: Lady Bird Lake. The solution, though, is to just tag on the names so you will still be right I realized yesterday. Hence we have Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. Peeking over her shoulder on the plaque is our condo building with the confusing name, The 360. (Because there is a highway officially called "Capital of Texas Highway" that we all call 360 because its number name used to be the only name. It is nowhere near our building.) Now if they'd only named First "Cesar Chavez First Street" and 19th "MLK 19th" we wouldn't have lost track of the numbering scheme. Of course, nothing would save us from having a South First and a South Fifth south of the river (really Town, er, Lady Bird Lake) when numbered streets are normally east and west. And, after all, the numbered streets used to be tree streets so we have Old Pecan Street Restaurant on East Sixth. We joke that all this confusion is intentional but of course it's really not. Never attribute intention when mere ineptitude will explain everything.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Over Her Shoulder
There has been a bit of renaming downtown in the last few years. We have to remember to call Town Lake something else: Lady Bird Lake. The solution, though, is to just tag on the names so you will still be right I realized yesterday. Hence we have Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. Peeking over her shoulder on the plaque is our condo building with the confusing name, The 360. (Because there is a highway officially called "Capital of Texas Highway" that we all call 360 because its number name used to be the only name. It is nowhere near our building.) Now if they'd only named First "Cesar Chavez First Street" and 19th "MLK 19th" we wouldn't have lost track of the numbering scheme. Of course, nothing would save us from having a South First and a South Fifth south of the river (really Town, er, Lady Bird Lake) when numbered streets are normally east and west. And, after all, the numbered streets used to be tree streets so we have Old Pecan Street Restaurant on East Sixth. We joke that all this confusion is intentional but of course it's really not. Never attribute intention when mere ineptitude will explain everything.
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