Former names you use without meaning to

[vdeane]

Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. Now it's the Gov. Mario M Cuomo Bridge.

Is there a single person on Earth who actually calls it the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge?

I don't think so, but "Cuomo Bridge" is enough to count as the new name and be unambiguous.

Someone in the "topics in 2064" thread mentioned a fictional extension of I-287 across Long Island Sound named after Andrew Cuomo, but this is less likely now because naming something after someone who resigned in a scandal is uncommon. Even if that did happen, they would be distinguished as "Mario Cuomo Bridge" and "Andrew Cuomo Bridge", no title, no middle initial.

I've been referring to it as "the GMCB" as of late.

[mgk920]

In that light, For the currently indeterminate future, the National League Milwaukee Brewers will be playing their home games at Miller Park.




Mike

[webny99]

Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. Now it's the Gov. Mario M Cuomo Bridge.

Is there a single person on Earth who actually calls it the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge?

I don't think so, but "Cuomo Bridge" is enough to count as the new name and be unambiguous.

Someone in the "topics in 2064" thread mentioned a fictional extension of I-287 across Long Island Sound named after Andrew Cuomo, but this is less likely now because naming something after someone who resigned in a scandal is uncommon. Even if that did happen, they would be distinguished as "Mario Cuomo Bridge" and "Andrew Cuomo Bridge", no title, no middle initial.

I've been referring to it as "the GMCB" as of late.

GMC Bridge is easy to remember, at least.

[roadman65]

I will always refer to Denali as Mount McKinley.  When I say this its not out of disrespect for the former name either.  I know it got rebranded to its original name as recent politicians have been thinking the generations of the 20th century were disrespectful (according to some in DC) and though they would correct a past error, but because its hard to let go of old names.  Though in my heart its a mountain peak adored by many generations past and to come.

Its like I refer to the NY Thruway as  The Thruway whether its I-87 or I-90.  It don't mean I'm being disrespectful to the two route numbers or that I refuse to call them by what they are, its just the thing to call it.

[Henry]

Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. Now it's the Gov. Mario M Cuomo Bridge.

Is there a single person on Earth who actually calls it the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge?

I don't think so, but "Cuomo Bridge" is enough to count as the new name and be unambiguous.

Someone in the "topics in 2064" thread mentioned a fictional extension of I-287 across Long Island Sound named after Andrew Cuomo, but this is less likely now because naming something after someone who resigned in a scandal is uncommon. Even if that did happen, they would be distinguished as "Mario Cuomo Bridge" and "Andrew Cuomo Bridge", no title, no middle initial.

I've been referring to it as "the GMCB" as of late.

GMC Bridge is easy to remember, at least.

Sounds more like a corporate name, as if the truck company sponsored it.

[frankenroad]

The Cleveland Indians' stadium will always be Jacob's Field to me (as opposed to its current moniker, Progressive Field).  For that matter, The "Q" will always be the Gund Arena for me.

But what do you call the place the Guardians play?? 

[Flint1979]

We have two hospitals in Saginaw that merged several years ago, probably 20 years ago. They are called Covenant Cooper and Covenant Harrison (due to the name of the streets they are on, one on Cooper and one on Harrison). Covenant Cooper used to be called St. Lukes Hospital and Covenant Harrison used to be called Saginaw General Hospital. I still call both by their original names.

[ibthebigd]

Heinz Field Pittsburgh
Staples Center LA
Deer Creek Amphitheater Indianapolis area

SM-G996U

[KCRoadFan]

I live in KC. I refer to the amphitheater in Bonner Springs (which seems to have a new corporate name every couple years) as Sandstone.

Also, I often call T-Mobile Center Sprint Center, and I sometimes call Kauffman Stadium Royals Stadium. In addition, I often refer to I-49 in Missouri as Highway 71 (which I'm sure most locals still do).

Across the state in St. Louis, I sometimes refer to I-64 as Highway 40.

[kkt]

Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. Now it's the Gov. Mario M Cuomo Bridge.

Is there a single person on Earth who actually calls it the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge?

Yes, but they all have the last name Cuomo.

[roadman65]

Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. Now it's the Gov. Mario M Cuomo Bridge.

Is there a single person on Earth who actually calls it the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge?

Yes, but they all have the last name Cuomo.

Does anyone call the RFK bridge by that or still refer to it as the Triborough Bridge?

[roadman65]

In Kissimmee, FL the road Boggy Creek Road parts renamed as Simpson and Fortune Roads to avoid ambiguity, when I drive down the Simpson Part I feel that I'm driving Boggy Creek Road. Don't discuss the road with others, but to me it's still the old.

Yet nearby when Bermuda Avenue was renamed John Young Parkway, I managed to get used to it real quickly being John Young existed in nearby Orange County had the name on the same road across the line from Kissimmee for years.


In Orange County, FL the residents in south part of the county were already calling Old Dixie Highway ( this too was long before the SC Church shooting made the old south controversial) as Orange Avenue before county commissioners voted to make Old Dixie as Orange to keep continuity.   The thing was Orange Avenue and Old Dixie Highway were never  a continuous alignment in the first place. Old Dixie defaulted to Central Florida Parkway and Orange defaulted into Whetherbee Road. You had only Zell Drive to connect what would become the two discontinued segments.  Now since the county widened and realigned Orange Avenue over the CSX Rail Line now the two parts are continuous from Osceola Parkway in Kissimmee to Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park minus two one way segments that are SB only.

[vtk]

I still keep catching myself referring to
"Port Columbus International Airport"
instead of
"John Glenn Columbus International Airport"
and it's been several years now hasn't it? They changed the name a few months before he died.

[SSOWorld]

I'll always chop off the additional text in front of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
The street opposite the Ike is Congress Parkway
That tall building by said Congress Parkway is the Sears Tower
The tunnel between the Brooklyn and the Battery is the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
That long bridge from the Upper East Side to Queens Plaza is the Queensboro Bridge.

In that light, For the currently indeterminate future, the National League Milwaukee Brewers will be playing their home games at Miller Park.

 
 

and the road passing by is Miller Park Way.
Names of airports: Washington National, Atlanta, O'Hare, BWI - I never use overly long names.

[US 89]

I still have a hard time with "Washington Commanders". I'll get used to it, but I'll almost say their old name, realize it's offensive, and then think "Football Team - wait, don't they have a new name now?"

[roadman65]

Gulf of Mexico 

[LilianaUwU]

Gulf of Mexico 

The thread is for former names.

[kernals12]

Gulf of Mexico 

The thread is for former names.

According to the United States Government, that is the current name

[hotdogPi]

Gulf of Mexico 

The thread is for former names.

According to the United States Government, that is the current name

I agree that Gulf of Mexico is the current name.

[ran4sh]

Lake Shore Dr (in Chicago)

Edit

Freedom Parkway (in Atlanta)

"The" University of Georgia (about a decade ago they looked up the founding documents and noticed there was no "the", so all newer university branding doesn't have "the")

[Flint1979]

I always call the White Sox ballpark Comiskey. I always call the Willis Tower the Sears Tower.

[SEWIGuy]

Gulf of Mexico 

The thread is for former names.

According to the United States Government, that is the current name

Only advisory...which is why the executive branch is using it. It needs an act of Congress to be official.

[LilianaUwU]

Gulf of Mexico 

The thread is for former names.

According to the United States Government, that is the current name

"According to the United States Government" is not how you want to start a sentence in 2025.

[kphoger]

Setting aside the silliness of 'Gulf of America'...  Even if that 'new' name really did start to catch on, I still strongly suspect I'd continue using the old one.

[mgk920]

'Denali'

Also, it is back to 'Fort Bragg, NC'.

Mike