Who’d pay for this?
Every once in awhile they change the name of a street around here. Somebody once told me that they don’t like to do it because it’s a real pain in the butt for people who live on the street and especially businesses. They all have to change their address and let people know. Stationary, business cards, yellow pages, maps, real estate records, publications,road signs and stuff I’m not even thinking of.
Imagine doing that for a whole town or city. It’s not just the signs at the entrance to the city, although some of those can be pretty fancy and thus expensive.
Army St in San Francisco got changed to Caesar Chavez Blvd
Cesar Chavez Signs Go Up On S.F.’s Former Army Street
Steve Rubenstein
Saturday, April 1, 1995
With a tug on a white rope and more than an hour of speeches and songs, the first of 100 street signs marking newly renamed Cesar Chavez Street was unveiled yesterday in San Francisco.
The ceremony took place at the corner of Chavez and Folsom streets, which, until the rope was pulled, had been known as the corner of Army and Folsom.
“Every day you look at that street sign, you should feel great,” said Supervisor Susan Leal, one of the backers of the drive to rename Army Street, to the crowd of 250 celebrants in the parking lot of St. Anthony’s Church.
Supervisor Tom Ammiano said the new signs represent a “reclaiming, not a renaming.”
“For years, we’ve had institutions named for whites and males. It’s time for education and balance,” he said.