Navigating Street Names

• In Chicago a street runs for miles and miles without changing it names. It stops for a park and picks up on the other side, with the same name on street signs. Oh, Crawford was long ago changed to Pulaski within the city limits, but there are few examples like that. To anyone who has navigated Chicago, it is confusing to walk down Strauss and have it change to King George, which becomes Keren HaYesohd ten-minutes’ walk farther along (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/not-jaywalking.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/george-v.html ). Arlozoroff (http://www.blogger.com/(http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/PEOPLE/BIOS/arloz.html ) of the 20th century becomes Ibn Gvirol (http://www.blogger.com/(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_ibn_Gabirol) of the 11th -- the poet is at home among other writers of his era ( http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/dunash-ben-labrat.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/view.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/jerusalem-street-poetry.html ), while the Zionist has Diskin and Ussishkin nearby.
• To Dubliners it is all quite natural.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox