[OHM] History of SF Street Names

[Dan Vanderkam]

Let's not forget the Great Street Renaming of 1909!
http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/s/streetNaming.html

This sort of thing was a serious pain while geocoding images for
oldsf.org. In addition to renaming the old grids, they also renamed
some German-sounding street names around World War I.

  - Dan

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> On 4/30/13 3:31 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>>
>> http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/
>>
>>
>> Awesome presentation. I'm learning tons.
>>
> i would have been interested in seeing the background for Urbano Drive.
>
> what i know about the street is that it was originally a horse track which
> opened in 1895. Auto racing was held there intermittantly from 1904
> to 1911. in 1912 a housing development was built which incorporated
> the track into the city's street grid as Urbano Drive.
>
> richard
>
>
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