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Originally Posted by the dufferz  Wow. just google earth'd that. that is something else! Pretty good designing.
Lucky they did not settle in Seattle. With 7 original hills surrounding the downtown area, straight lines that last a mile are pretty well impossible!  |
It took me almost six-months to find my way around Salt Lake City before somebody told me the "waffle-iron" thing - after that, never a problem. It's really smart - the pioneers were really smart - the programs and methods they set up were amazing from a social standpoint! I come from the east where everything spider-veins towards the county-seat so, the grid really helps. So, an address like "1045E 2050S" is easier to find than latitude-lines on a map! You know you must go East from the main drag and south from zero (In Salt Lake, Main Street is the main (zero) for E-W while North Temple is zero for N-S. However, State Street (100E) is the main N-S drag thru the valley. (whew, just got myself lost on a grid!)