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Businesses with symbolic addresses that happen to fit within the street grid

Started by KCRoadFan, October 08, 2022, 03:32:50 AM

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KCRoadFan

For me, this is post number 777, which is, of course, a number commonly associated with winning the jackpot on a slot machine. For that reason, many casinos will give their address as 777 (whatever the street name is). Oftentimes, it's just a symbolic or vanity address, but I know of at least one where that number actually perfectly fits within the surrounding street grid, which happens to be near where I live: namely, 7th Street Casino at 777 North 7th Street in downtown Kansas City, KS.

In other examples of this phenomenon, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has its headquarters on the even-numbered side of D Street NW between 17th and 18th Streets in Washington, DC - so, naturally, it has the address number 1776. In addition, Turner Field in Atlanta, where the Braves played for a couple decades before they relocated to their current stadium in the northwest suburbs, was located along the odd-numbered side of Capitol Avenue - of which the 700 block, in front of the ballpark, was renamed Hank Aaron Drive, and the stadium was given the number 755, referencing the number of home runs Aaron hit in his career.

Throughout the country, where else have you found examples of businesses or entities such as the ones I listed, ones whose address not only has a symbolic meaning, but which also happens to fit perfectly within the larger street grid or address number sequence in which the building is found? I'm sure there are at least a handful of them somewhere.


texaskdog

I worked at MSI Insurance whose logo was 2 Pine Trees.  It was on 2 Pine Tree Drive, which they certainly named the street after the company, but the apartments across the street were 4 & 6 Pine Tree Drive.

Bruce

A total guess, but the Seattle Central Library happens to be at 1000 4th Avenue; 1000 being the number of sections in the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

pianocello

Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 08, 2022, 03:32:50 AM
For that reason, many casinos will give their address as 777 (whatever the street name is).

Rhythm City Casino in Davenport, IA is near the 7000 block, so they incorporated the 777 into its address a different way (7077 Elmore Ave).

Bethesda Lutheran Church in Ames, IA is at 1517 Northwestern Ave. 1517 is the year that Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of his church, which is considered the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation.
Davenport, IA -> Valparaiso, IN -> Ames, IA -> Orlando, FL -> Gainesville, FL -> Evansville, IN

Flint1979

I remember when the Detroit Pistons used to play in Auburn Hills they would keep changing the address every time one of the buildings tenants won a championship. It got up to 6 Championship Drive. The 6 championships represented the 3 by the Pistons and 3 for the Shock. For some reason the Vipers Turner Cup championship wasn't included in the address. And the address stayed the same even after the Shock moved to Oklahoma (had to look that up as I don't follow the WNBA or even the NBA).

CtrlAltDel

Quote from: Bruce on October 08, 2022, 04:35:12 AM
A total guess, but the Seattle Central Library happens to be at 1000 4th Avenue; 1000 being the number of sections in the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

Interestingly, not all of them are assigned, for example 029.
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SectorZ

Not a business, but the final address on Monument St in Concord, MA is 1776 at the Carlisle border.

Monument St starts in the town center and goes north. Just north of the center is the Old North Bridge, which has some historical significance to the American Revolution.

GaryV

Bronner's in Frankenmuth, MI has the address of 25 Christmas Lane. It kind of fits the grid - it's just east of Main St - but Christmas Lane is really just the loop around their parking lot.



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