{"id":1207,"date":"2006-07-19T10:26:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/07\/19\/new-downtown-street-signs\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:26:46","slug":"new-downtown-street-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/new-downtown-street-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Downtown Street Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/07\/193353048_6f3fbc64a6_o.phtml\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/07\/193353048_6f3fbc64a6_o-thumb.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"3rd Street\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/07\/193354110_6b632fae39_o.phtml\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2006\/07\/193354110_6b632fae39_o-thumb.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Congress Avenue\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I noticed these a couple of weeks ago, but only now got the chance to snap a few photos. It looks like they&#8217;ve replaced the streets signs on Congress with new &#8220;Historic District&#8221; black signs with white writing. The east-west streets also now show their old tree names in addition to the numbered streets.<\/p>\n<p>Most people are probably aware that 6th Street was once Pecan Street since there&#8217;s a festival of the same name and there&#8217;s also the Old Pecan Street Cafe. Apparenlty, 3rd Street was Cypress. Another little tidbit that many don&#8217;t notice is that the majority of the north-south streets between Lamar and I-35 are not only named after Texas rivers, but they&#8217;re named in geographic order as well with Sabine being the farthest east and Rio Grande the farthest west. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/tia\/content\/lifestyles\/tia\/2005\/20TIASTREETS.html\">Austin360 feature<\/a> has more on the history and crazy pronunciation of Austin street names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed these a couple of weeks ago, but only now got the chance to snap a few photos. It looks like they&#8217;ve replaced the streets signs on Congress with new &#8220;Historic District&#8221; black signs with white writing. The east-west streets also now show their old tree names in addition to the numbered streets. Most <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/new-downtown-street-signs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-jt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}