[OHM] History of SF Street Names

[David Riordan]

This is really cool. This kind of rename tracking is going to be pretty
critical for HOSM and tracking down sources like this is going to be pretty
big.

Here's to a lot more awesome rename trackers.

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dan Vanderkam <danvdk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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