Go Ahead: Rename an L.A. Street

Zocalo — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:01:10 +0000

Is there any place in the world that talks about and obsesses over its streets as much as L.A.? The names of our roads have been immortalized in film titles (Sunset Boulevard and Cloverfield) and verse (all Sheryl Crow wanted to do was party “until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard,” while Tom Petty sang, “I wanna glide down over Mulholland”). But surely some L.A. street names are out of date, and others are simply unoriginal—like Broadway.

So of course we were disappointed when sportscaster Vin Scully rejected the idea of having a street near Dodger Stadium named in his honor. “The mayor of Los Angeles has a great deal more important things to do than name a street after me,” Scully said, apparently disagreeing with Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had proposed it to begin with. Well, the rest of us can’t let this street renaming stuff go. That’s why we asked five Angelenos for some input: If you could rename any street in L.A., which would you choose—and why?

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