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Emperor Wang
location: On an island, in a river
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| | Urban Oddities < on 8/19/2005 4:01 AM >
| | | So... I was putzing around Northern Electric and the redeveloped Redpath today, just checking this and that out, when I noticed the weirdest thing. On two blocks of Richmond, between Grand Trunk and Wellington, every single fucking house has a leading '0' in its street address. I mean all of them.
Here's a Google Maps link in case you're not familiar with the neighbourhood. You'll need to copy & paste to make it work. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.482574,-73.559293&spn=0.006860,0.013189&t=h&hl=en What do you suppose is up with that? I asked a couple of locals about it, and all I could get out of them was a "that's just the way it is" and a shrug of the shoulders.
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frigo
location: mega-Montreal
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| | | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 1 on 8/19/2005 10:51 AM >
| | | I guess that's because they developed those two blocks after the rest of the street, after the initial layout plan.
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
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| | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 2 on 8/19/2005 1:38 PM >
| | | but this is montreal, many streets have had thier adresses re numbered. look at marlowe in NDG all the houses have stained glass adress numbers, the street was re numbered 2 years after the houses were built, so the stained glass numbers are wrong
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Ti Pit
location: Laval Gender: Male
| | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 3 on 8/19/2005 3:45 PM >
| | | Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! but this is montreal, many streets have had thier adresses re numbered. look at marlowe in NDG all the houses have stained glass adress numbers, the street was re numbered 2 years after the houses were built, so the stained glass numbers are wrong
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I agree, I live on Prud'Homme street In NDG, and we have the same type of thing that happened on Marlow... our stain glass reads 6XX but out actually address now is 35XX [last edit 8/19/2005 3:50 PM by Ti Pit - edited 1 times]
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
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| | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 4 on 8/19/2005 6:47 PM >
| | | then there are the novelty adesses like 1 place ville marie, it will get delivered but according to canada post it is not a proper adress, 1 place vill marie is actually xxx rene levesque, or xxx university
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Mutt
Moderator location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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| | | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 5 on 8/22/2005 1:32 PM >
| | | The political boundaries change over time leading to address changes like the ones in the stained glass. The leading zero's has me curious too. Another oddity to think about is this---- New York City doesn't exist. The proper term is The City of New York. My own old address was quite odd as it was a rural one, on my drivers licence et cetera I had to have the exact location of my property. With no street name and house number it was sometimes interesting to fill out forms requiring address. In the late 90's the address plan changed with everyone in that area getting rural "fire" numbers. Now the address looks more normal and agreeable to computerized address forms. The XXXXX denotes name of the I lived in township. The actual village I lived near didn't appear anywhere in the address. W1/2 LT25 C6 XXXXX TP What does it mean? W1/2 = west half LT25 = Lot 25 C6 = Concession 6 xx TP = XXXXX Township Bad translation follows.... ___________________________________________ _ le politique frontière changer au-dessus temps mener adresser changer comme le ceux dans le souiller verre. _ le mener zéro avoir curieux trop. _ un autre singularité penser au sujet être ce ---- New York City non exister. _ le approprié limite être le ville New York. _ _ mon propre vieux adresser être tout à fait impair comme être un rural un, sur mon conducteur autoriser et cetera je devoir avoir le exact endroit mon propriété. _ sans rue nom et maison nombre être parfois intéressant remplir dehors forme requiring adresser. _ vers la fin année 90 le adresser plan changer avec chacun dans que secteur getting rural "feu" nombre. _ maintenant le adresser regarder plus normal et agréable computerized adresser forme. _ _ le XXXXX dénoter nom le je vivre dans banlieue. _ le réel village je vivre proche non apparaître n'importe où dans le adresser. _ _ W1/2 LT25 C6 XXXXX TP _ ce qui signifier ? _ W1/2 = ouest moitié LT25 = sort 25 C6 = concession 6 xx tp = XXXXX banlieue [last edit 8/22/2005 1:36 PM by Mutt - edited 1 times]
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maZe
location: Montreal/Moncton/Ottawa Gender: Female
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| | | | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 6 on 8/22/2005 5:44 PM >
| | | Wow Mutt, this is quite an explanation. I just think when cities merges to create the current city of Montreal, some addresses changed. And they went from a 5 numbers address to a shorter one to people just put "0" to cover the former first number of the original address. That happened to me when I lived on Christophe-Colomb. We went from 10850 to 9998 and we covered the 1 with a 0 on our door... [last edit 8/22/2005 8:29 PM by maZe - edited 1 times]
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
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| | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 7 on 8/22/2005 8:26 PM >
| | | also as of now there are multiple streets in the current montreal, victoria being the worst culprit, a lot of people dont realize that some of the stores in the eaton centre have mailing adresses on a victoria street that disapeared 40 years ago
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mewthree
location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Gender: Male
| | | Re: Urban Oddities <Reply # 8 on 8/22/2005 10:47 PM >
| | | well one of those doors on richmond street is the front door of an old buddy I used to hang out with.. actually 50 feet from my front door aswell. Richmond continues on the north side of the canal...
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