Saw an amusing bit on the Seattle Channel by John Keister (Almost Live) about Seattle neighborhood street name mnemonic devices wrought after the oft-cited downtown version "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" for Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine.
Here's the South Lake Union adaptation they came up with: "Allen Decides What Transpires For a Million Years" for Aloha, Denny, Westlake, Terry, Fairview, Mercer, Yale.
Pretty fitting I'd say, but probably not all that helpful if you get lost since the streets are out of order.
Can you come up with a better one? Feel free to use different street names, or actually go in order east-west/north-south, etc. Add yours in the comments!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
SLU Street Name Mnemonics
1 comments:
That is a pretty clever idea but the idea of the mnemonic device is to remember an order, like the streets of downtown Seattle. But, instead of jumbling the streets to make something creative, you organize the letters in order, like the device for the downtown streets. So, from north to south, the streets are:
ALOHA, VALLEY, ROY, MERCER, REPUBLICAN, HARRISON, THOMAS, JOHN and DENNY.
So here is my suggestion for a device. Goes with the Allen idea and tearing away most of the old blight in the neighborhood.
A very rich man razed half the junk down.
Just a quick idea. Who else has a suggestion?
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