[Magdalen] Windy, waiting Williston

[Joseph Cirou]

Devon used to be shibboleth for north and south siders.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 24, 2016 10:10 PM
>To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Windy, waiting Williston
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>I still remember our ridiculous address in Muskego, a suburb of Milwaukee:
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>S67 W13882 Hardwicke Place
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>It was explained at some point that this grid system was applied for
>emergency services.
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>Similarly, at some point the Michigan State University campus adopted
>regular addresses. Previously an address there would be simply "136
>Music Building, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824" but the post office
>wanted a street address as well, so it became "253 West Circle Drive,
>Room 136" or something. Saint Meinrad Archabbey's campus now has its
>buildings all with addresses as <some number> Hill Drive. It's not
>that big a place, but I guess whether for mail purposes or pinpointing
>an emergency, that's how things are now.
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>Here in Chicago we have our trusty grid system: eight hundreds to a
>mile, so our address of 6311 N Glenwood Ave tells you (if you're
>grid-savvy) that we're just north of Rosemont Avenue and just south of
>Devon Avenue, which is 6400 North or exactly eight miles north of
>Madison Street.
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>On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>> My little town, even though unincorporated, was platted
>> and street-named, and they just ignored our street names and arbitrarily
>> changed them to names of birds.  Our land is flat enough that it was pretty
>> easy when it was being settled to lay out roads along the grid lines of
>> square miles, with a few exceptions for the river, and now our roads are 10
>> (invisible)(not even any thought of ever paving them: it'd sure mess up a
>> lot of farm land!) "blocks" apart.  It does have its positive points, but
>> the system is still a pain in the neck.  I'm guessing that North Dakota,
>> with a lot fewer humans per square mile, is going through the same (@%$#%
>> process.  Got to have everybody pinned down to the square inch!
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>Scott R. Knitter
>Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA