As long as we're erasing the history of the City of Greensboro by changing historic street names like Lee Street and High Point Road both named for people and events that were important to the history of Greensboro... As long as entire neighborhoods like my own Bessemer are being forgotten and renamed East Greensboro while other newer neighborhoods like Westerwood keep their historic names why don't we put an end to this nonsense once and for all?
Who's for it?
Why don't we just rename the entire city, everything. The Gate City as it's been nicknamed since with the support of Greensboro's Governor Morehead, the North Carolina Railroad built that track through the center of Downtown that everyone hates so much. I'm mean, if that's what Governor Morehead wanted when he nicknamed us the Gate City then why not go ahead and do it right? Screw Major General Nathanael Greene just like the founders of Greensborough screwed Guilford Court House, the first name of our city. Who the hell was the Earl of Guilford anyway? A hundred years from now people will be saying who the hell was Greene? And no one will care because the victors rewrote the history just as victors always do-- to their own advantage.
You see, this renaming thing is nothing more than the same silly branding and marketing they've been failing at for years. You can't brand your way to prosperity when you haven't a product to brand.
And while we're at it let's get rid of the rest of Greensborough's history just like we ran off Greensborough's first inhabitants, the Saura Indians who hunted the area. Let's get rid of all the old names like that racist bastard, Charles B Aycock and the Aycock Historic District. Let's get rid of the names, Fisher Park, Irving Park, Starmount, College Hill and every street named for some person, place thing or event that took place before any of us were born.
In doing this Greensboro's street names can finally make sense. Every road can be numbered just like the world class cities Greensboro's "leaders" so long to emulate. Avenues run north to south and streets run east to west. Or is it the other way around? Having been born and raised in Greensboro I can never remember.
In the official documents the cost to the City is said to be $130,000. At their meeting yesterday a figure of $200,000 was tossed around. Fact is: no one really knows what it will cost to change the names of High Point Road and Lee Street but my guess of $500,000 is probably the closest anyone will ever come. And no one has even bother to estimate the cost to businesses because that will be in the Millions of Dollars. And it will all get passed on to Greensboro consumers.
So let's just shoot the moon, rename everything, brand it all and be done with it.
Then our only problem will be folks confusing us with the Appalachian shale mining town of Gate City, Virginia. Which makes me wonder, wasn't one of the concerns with the name, High Point Road, the fact that it promoted another city?
Who's for it?
Why don't we just rename the entire city, everything. The Gate City as it's been nicknamed since with the support of Greensboro's Governor Morehead, the North Carolina Railroad built that track through the center of Downtown that everyone hates so much. I'm mean, if that's what Governor Morehead wanted when he nicknamed us the Gate City then why not go ahead and do it right? Screw Major General Nathanael Greene just like the founders of Greensborough screwed Guilford Court House, the first name of our city. Who the hell was the Earl of Guilford anyway? A hundred years from now people will be saying who the hell was Greene? And no one will care because the victors rewrote the history just as victors always do-- to their own advantage.
You see, this renaming thing is nothing more than the same silly branding and marketing they've been failing at for years. You can't brand your way to prosperity when you haven't a product to brand.
And while we're at it let's get rid of the rest of Greensborough's history just like we ran off Greensborough's first inhabitants, the Saura Indians who hunted the area. Let's get rid of all the old names like that racist bastard, Charles B Aycock and the Aycock Historic District. Let's get rid of the names, Fisher Park, Irving Park, Starmount, College Hill and every street named for some person, place thing or event that took place before any of us were born.
In doing this Greensboro's street names can finally make sense. Every road can be numbered just like the world class cities Greensboro's "leaders" so long to emulate. Avenues run north to south and streets run east to west. Or is it the other way around? Having been born and raised in Greensboro I can never remember.
In the official documents the cost to the City is said to be $130,000. At their meeting yesterday a figure of $200,000 was tossed around. Fact is: no one really knows what it will cost to change the names of High Point Road and Lee Street but my guess of $500,000 is probably the closest anyone will ever come. And no one has even bother to estimate the cost to businesses because that will be in the Millions of Dollars. And it will all get passed on to Greensboro consumers.
So let's just shoot the moon, rename everything, brand it all and be done with it.
Then our only problem will be folks confusing us with the Appalachian shale mining town of Gate City, Virginia. Which makes me wonder, wasn't one of the concerns with the name, High Point Road, the fact that it promoted another city?
