Getting Out the Map

[dgriffin]

Sept 22, 2008 1:01:24 GMT -5 Ralph said:

However, they started calling it Cornhill and ended it at Conkling for some odd reason for many years, then changed it back to Mohawk again.

Thanks, Ralph, that may explain why the housing styles changed somewhat beyond Conkling ... dramatically, above James (south), and somewhat below.

I'm sort of amazed I never considered exactly where the boundaries were when I was a kid. I was pretty black and white about such things as a youngster. I think I would have said Cornhill ended at Mohawk, and I don't know what I'd call what lay east of it, but certainly not "east Utica." To me, East Utica was below Rutger, east of St. John's.

By the way, I always think of James St. ending at Gibson Rd, which it did when I was a kid. And, as Ralph said ... to go back to my original point ("You had a point, Dave?") ... I have to believe the voter registration event took place on a section of James St. everyone would agree was in Cornhill, not "East Utica."

But, Ralph, as far as the NAACP in East Utica ...
I drove into Utica on Bleecker St. from Culver last winter and I'd say an NAACP office would be very appropriate there.

[wilum47]

Sept 21, 2008 20:56:01 GMT -5 dan said:

To take this in a slightly different direction........

Why don't you ever hear about the Republicans holding a voter registration drive/bake sale?

Because Republicans have jobs and don't have the time! ;D