From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxj!mhuxv!burl!sb1!ll1!ihldt!ihnp4!ixlpc!tomoc
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Missing street names
Article-I.D.: ixlpc.198
Posted: Mon Jan 10 16:38:03 1983
Received: Tue Jan 11 01:46:22 1983
Reply-To: tomoc@ixlpc.UUCP (Tom O`Connor)


How about the case where you have missing numbered street names?
In my home, we`ve got a 12th through 16th street, then an 18th, 19th,
21st and then 22nd.  I often wondered what ever happened to 17th and
20th street.  My grandfather lived practically his entire life there,
and he used to say that that was how it was when he was a kid.  Call
it "THE CASE OF THE MISSING STREET NUMBERS".

As a corrolary, not all the houses on our blocks have consecutive addresses.
I mean, in most places, the numbers always go up by 2.  Just on our
block, the houses go 1515, 1521, 1525, 1527, 1531, 1535.  When our house 
was built, we had a choice of numbering it 1527 or 1529.  I assume this
has something to to with the size of the lots each homeowner has, since
we`ve got a double lot.  Is this numbering scheme very common, or is
my town a little screwy.

			Tom O`Connor
			ixlpc!tomoc
			Living in the suburbs of the Windy City     
			in Berwyn, Ill. - houby capital of Ill. if not world