[Crabcakes]

Could someone local to SLC let me know how you call the streets here? I notice so many streets that are called 16000 South, or 32000, for example. Do you call it sixteen thousand? Or One Six Oh Oh Oh? When I stop for directions, I don't want to sound goofy! (LOL).

The snow capped mountains here are just stunningly beautiful! I can't imagine LIVING right next to these majestic peaks!

[PBarnes]

I can't help with the pronunciations but I must say that I was awed by the beautiful mountains as we drove from the airport to the Guest House.

[Crabcakes]

Aren't they stunning? And SO close? I have always loved mountains. From my daughter's yard we can see Mt. Blanca, in Colorado, and even in Phoenix, we have small mountains, that I consider beautiful as well. But these are SO high and SO beautiful and SO close! I love them! I also greatly enjoyed spending the day on Antelope Island, in the Great Salt Lake today. Visiting Great Salt Lake has been on my To Do aka Bucket List, for years. I was thrilled to see it today, for the first time!

[Elizabeth from Long Beach]

I'm not a local, but I think it is said 16hundred, 13hundred, etc.


So I think 1600 would be sixteen hundred. I think!
Cheers,
Elizabeth in Long Beach to whom "thinking" may be quite dangerous

Crabcakes, on 06 October 2009 - 08:36 PM, said:

Could someone local to SLC let me know how you call the streets here? I notice so many streets that are called 16000 South, or 32000, for example. Do you call it sixteen thousand? Or One Six Oh Oh Oh? When I stop for directions, I don't want to sound goofy! (LOL).

The snow capped mountains here are just stunningly beautiful! I can't imagine LIVING right next to these majestic peaks!

[Crabcakes]

Thanks Elizabeth! Ya just never know! So if 1600 is sixteen hundred, then I would assume 16000 is sixteen thousand. That DOES make sense, but ya just never know. When I lived in MI, I lived near a town spelled "Saline". Coming from the heath care field, I called it "say-leen", sccent on the first syllable. I was wrong! The locals call it "Sah-leen" with the last syllable accented! Same with "Milan" - accent on the first syllable, and also "Charlotte", with the accent on the last syllable! I was ALWAYS wrong for the first few months I lived there!

[AngRoCamp]

Actually the streets are usually referred to this way:

100 South = 1st South OR one-hundred south (and be sure to specify hundred not hundredTH)
1000 South = 10th South
10000 South = 100th South

300 East = 3rd East
1300 East = 13th East
10300 East (no such thing LOL... but it would be 103rd East)

If you're reading a full street number you would just say, for example:
325 West = "three twenty five west"
1325 West "thirteen twenty-five west" or for the bigger numbers typically:
13250 West "one three two five zero west"

The street naming system in Utah is daunting at first but when figured out it is SO simple! It's just a giant grid with N, S, E, W coordinates using the Temple Square area as the center spot. If an address is 300 East and 800 South you know you're going to be 3 city blocks east and 8 city blocks south of Temple Square (in the Salt Lake Valley, other valleys and cities in the state use different locations for Zero.


I miss Utah!!!!

[VanWassup]

Crabcakes, on 07 October 2009 - 08:49 AM, said:

Thanks Elizabeth! Ya just never know! So if 1600 is sixteen hundred, then I would assume 16000 is sixteen thousand. That DOES make sense, but ya just never know. When I lived in MI, I lived near a town spelled "Saline". Coming from the heath care field, I called it "say-leen", sccent on the first syllable. I was wrong! The locals call it "Sah-leen" with the last syllable accented! Same with "Milan" - accent on the first syllable, and also "Charlotte", with the accent on the last syllable! I was ALWAYS wrong for the first few months I lived there!

I live near Saline! Novi to be exact and everybody always pronounces it Noh-vee....nope, it's Noh-vye. We michiganders have to make things soooo confusing!

[Crabcakes]

Thanks so much AngroCamp! In Phoenix, we are on a grid, but nothing so beautiful as Temple Square as the center. Just an intersection of McDowell and Central Ave! Thanks SO much for the explantion!

VanWassup... when I lived in Brighton, I loved reading the story of the Novi name. It was an old stagecoach stop. Number 6. No. VI (6 in Roman numerals). Isn't that quaint? Michigan is certainly FULL of odd pronunciations. Don't get me started on the pronunuciation of pasties! LOL! Pasties, for non-Michiganders, are delicious meat, potato and rhubarb turnovers. Yum Yum Yum!

[Sara Arell]

Oh, you all sound like you are having so much fun - pronouncing street names is only applicable if they are written in purple, I would think -

[Yvonne53]

AngRoCamp, on 07 October 2009 - 12:56 PM, said:

Actually the streets are usually referred to this way:

100 South = 1st South OR one-hundred south (and be sure to specify hundred not hundredTH)
1000 South = 10th South
10000 South = 100th South

300 East = 3rd East
1300 East = 13th East
10300 East (no such thing LOL... but it would be 103rd East)

If you're reading a full street number you would just say, for example:
325 West = "three twenty five west"
1325 West "thirteen twenty-five west" or for the bigger numbers typically:
13250 West "one three two five zero west"

The street naming system in Utah is daunting at first but when figured out it is SO simple! It's just a giant grid with N, S, E, W coordinates using the Temple Square area as the center spot. If an address is 300 East and 800 South you know you're going to be 3 city blocks east and 8 city blocks south of Temple Square (in the Salt Lake Valley, other valleys and cities in the state use different locations for Zero.


I miss Utah!!!!

Wow Ang, that was a great geography lesson...I love learning new things; I would have never known that was the system there and why, unless I looked it up. I think you just made a lot of SGs very happy with finding their away around! Thanks!

[MariB]

AngRoCamp, on 07 October 2009 - 12:56 PM, said:

Actually the streets are usually referred to this way:

100 South = 1st South OR one-hundred south (and be sure to specify hundred not hundredTH)
1000 South = 10th South
10000 South = 100th South

300 East = 3rd East
1300 East = 13th East
10300 East (no such thing LOL... but it would be 103rd East)

If you're reading a full street number you would just say, for example:
325 West = "three twenty five west"
1325 West "thirteen twenty-five west" or for the bigger numbers typically:
13250 West "one three two five zero west"

The street naming system in Utah is daunting at first but when figured out it is SO simple! It's just a giant grid with N, S, E, W coordinates using the Temple Square area as the center spot. If an address is 300 East and 800 South you know you're going to be 3 city blocks east and 8 city blocks south of Temple Square (in the Salt Lake Valley, other valleys and cities in the state use different locations for Zero.


I miss Utah!!!!

[Crabcakes]

Sarah, you know, SLC did not, as I expected, change the street signs to purple! But the naming scheme is remarkably convenient after all!
Mari, did you forget to write something!

[Cropalot]

I hope Scrappin' Doc sees this. We had a fit with those numbers while we were there. But even after your explanation, it would take me a while to really get it down.