tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post2539023337024075113..comments2024-03-29T12:23:31.959+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Kurt Cobain Bridge? Amy Winehouse Corner?: History vs 'celebrity' in the naming of town placesVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-87295900864304222632011-08-05T10:10:35.864+01:002011-08-05T10:10:35.864+01:00Road renaming is not just a modern phenomenon: the...Road renaming is not just a modern phenomenon: the 1938 edition of the London A-Z [recently republished in facsimilie with genealogists in mind] has a section, present in the original, covering the road renamings that had then recently taken place.Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-56466698980577686362011-08-04T23:32:53.340+01:002011-08-04T23:32:53.340+01:00Place naming too soon skews the importance of fame...Place naming too soon skews the importance of fame over significance. Springing off the theme of 27 year olds - there's a blue plaque for Jimi Hendrix in Brook Street. <br /><br />It's documented that he spent approximately 44 days there. Probably a better place for the blue plaque would have been Ringo Starr's gaff in Montague Place*, JH's first residence in London, but there was a fair amount of lobbying for Brook Street to celebrate the 26th (sic) anniversary of his death not unassociated with the publication of an autobiography if I recall correctly. <br /><br />Surely this blue plaque devalues the blue plaque next door where Handel lived (not that they ever met...) for about 30 years.<br /><br />*Completely unremarked in a postcard from "Experience Hendrix" in Seattle showing JH standing outside that flat, titled simply as "standing in a doorway"Gentoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05063939954837162413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-11956501570759688402011-08-04T11:00:05.184+01:002011-08-04T11:00:05.184+01:00Surely "Amy WineHouse" would be a great ...Surely "Amy WineHouse" would be a great name for a bar?Arthur Sleepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-28308018041335749242011-08-04T00:45:31.260+01:002011-08-04T00:45:31.260+01:00Entertaining post! - which confirms my scepticism ...Entertaining post! - which confirms my scepticism about the creation of personality rights such as California Civil Code section 3344: http://law.onecle.com/california/civil/3344.htmlThomas Dillonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-64690806424376063732011-08-03T19:05:10.990+01:002011-08-03T19:05:10.990+01:00Depends on the history you would want your people ...Depends on the history you would want your people to remember, India renamed many streets named after colonial powers to names of Indian Freedom fighters after its Independence.aahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09802574941508915922noreply@blogger.com