Our streets in Edmonton are mostly numbered. It is so much easier to find an address with numbered streets. Named streets came along when the city expanded.
County roads in our area are numbered. The baseline (00N and 00E for Adams County , Illinois would be at a point near Palmyra, Missouri – on the other side of the Mississippi!
Oh! So “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 was really about Japan! It makes so much sense now… Though I wonder if they could have found what they were looking for if only they had known about the numbered blocks…
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
Is that Chinese violin church Baptist or Methodist or something?
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 7 years ago
Our streets in Edmonton are mostly numbered. It is so much easier to find an address with numbered streets. Named streets came along when the city expanded.
J Short over 7 years ago
In Lincoln Nebraska, the streets are numbers one direction and letters the other. Finding your way around is a cinch.
J Short over 7 years ago
The poet was right, I have a sudden urge to go to McDonald’s.
geraldrmanning over 7 years ago
Here in hillbilly country, the roads are neither numbered, lettered, or named on signs. One just ‘knows’ …..
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 7 years ago
I lived in a small village in Scotland and the houses were NAMED. If you wanted a phone number you had to wait till someone died!!!
Teto85 Premium Member over 7 years ago
And the houses are numbered in the order they were built.
ChessPirate over 7 years ago
Björk is björked in the head…
tuslog1964 over 7 years ago
County roads in our area are numbered. The baseline (00N and 00E for Adams County , Illinois would be at a point near Palmyra, Missouri – on the other side of the Mississippi!
ajn90280 Premium Member over 7 years ago
Oh! So “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 was really about Japan! It makes so much sense now… Though I wonder if they could have found what they were looking for if only they had known about the numbered blocks…
Angry Indeed Premium Member over 7 years ago
Sudoku was probably invented by a bored Japanese letter carrier.