Yeah--I haven't gotten to the NY section yet (because I'm reading in the reverse of my usual order), but you're the second person to point this one out. Here are my two stories about naming places after businesses:
1. It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties that I figured out what Times Square was named after.
2. A few years back when I was aghast at the wave of sports facility renamings, I thought, "Why, next thing you know, they'll rename Wrigley Field... Oh."
I've sometimes thought that if I were to become super-rich, one thing I'd like to do is buy the naming rights to some of these places--like, 3Com Park, formerly Candlestick--and name them back.
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Re: from yesterday's nytimes
Date: 2003-04-07 08:15 am (UTC)1. It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties that I figured out what Times Square was named after.
2. A few years back when I was aghast at the wave of sports facility renamings, I thought, "Why, next thing you know, they'll rename Wrigley Field... Oh."
I've sometimes thought that if I were to become super-rich, one thing I'd like to do is buy the naming rights to some of these places--like, 3Com Park, formerly Candlestick--and name them back.