Name changes
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My "old guy" gripe... The names around town keep changing! I drive to choir on Lake Shore Drive - but now it's "Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive" or Dusable Lake Shore Drive. I look to my left to see the Sears Tower, or they call it Willis Tower now. I drive in to the city on the Eisenhower expy, which turns into the Congress drive - wait, now it's Ida B. Wells drive.
Maybe I'll go see the Sox play at Sox park, or The Cell, or whatever they are calling it now!
What's getting renamed around you?
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I get that it's inevitable that names will be changed sometimes, but I hate it when the new name is super long (like your new LSD name). I also hate it when there's a nice name and then it gets changed to a company or product name. Then there's the Staples Ctr, which is now Crypto.com Arena??? I hate that. (And I don't even know where it is. California, right?)
OTOH, I did live in the South for several years, so I am in agreement with some of the recent changes to get rid of names that were named after people who did some truly awful things.
OTO, OH, I don't like it when things go overboard...
Names are hard.
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The high schools! Wilson is now Ida B. Wells. Madison is now McDaniel (I’m not sure which McDaniel it’s referring to.) But we still have Grant, Lincoln, Franklin, Cleveland.
39th Avenue is Cesar E Chavez. And Union Avenue changed to MLK a long time ago.
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Tappan Zee bridge was formally renamed Mario Cuomo bridge in a midnight deal between his son and the legislature. Zero warning, so no one could complain in advance.
Everyone still calls it the Tappan Zee, just like I’m sure everyone still says Lake Shore Drive.
Other similar examples:
Triboro bridge -> RFK bridge.
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel -> Hugh Carey tunnel -
The airport in Nevada is now Harry Reid airport. When I first moved here, it was still named anti-Semitic asshole airport.
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@DougG Yeah, McCarran. Flying into Reid on Thursday night, actually.
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Bridges are the most notable changes in Pittsburgh. Not much is sacrificed because most bridges were simply named for conneecting streets or the town they were adjacent to. Examples:
6th Street - Roberto Clemente bridge (adjacent to PNC Park)
7th Street - Andy Warhol bridge (near the Warhol Museum and his booyhood home)
9th Street - Rachel Carson bridge (western PA naturalist)
16th Street - David McCullough (western PA historian)
Homestead High Level bridge - Homestead Grays bridge (Negro League baseball team from Homestead)The renaming by sale of naming rights is more problematic and confusing. For instance:
The Civic Arena became Mellon Bank Arena and its replacement is now PPG Paints Arena
Heinz Field, named by rights at construction, is now Acrisure StadiumI've lost track of the various names the outdoor concert venue originally known as Starlight has had.
Big Al
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@DougG
The previous name does have a certain ring to it.
