The New Castle, Indiana, school board has decided to drop the name “Chrysler” from its high school’s name. [article] Chrysler apparently sold its factory there a few years ago.
Isn’t it about time that we changed the name of Stroh Lane?
There are other street names in our city named for companies no longer here or people associated with them. We might wonder about Case. We might wonder about Bush if/when the Mining ever leaves the city completely.
But these streets are also part of the addresses of a lot of people who would be affected. And they may be perceived to have some historical value. Stroh Lane has no great historical value and no residents. The name was given to two blocks of Walsh as a sop to Stroh’s for taking over the Hamm’s/Olympia/Pabst operations which they gave up ten years ago. And since they no longer even own part of the real estate, there would not seem any reason to keep the sop in place.
So has anybody thought about it?
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I wonder about Fariview. They have hospitals all over, but none around their avenue and I don't think they ever did.
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