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