What's in a name:

GPS services suck. I travel from here to there by a combination of turns between intermissions of robotic instructions. Ask for directions and you get a pin drop, why?
Have we lost all sense of direction?
I remember being asked for directions by a slight panic looking Asian man entered the train station in London many years ago. 'Excuse me, where is Putney Bridge?'
'You take the next train on the city line, count four stops. This is Southfields station.'
In my youth everyone knew their way around by landmarks. You want to get to the city library, turn left on Kruger Street by the Corner Lounge Cafe (Sadly the Cafe is no more), we'd walk home from school passed creepy heights stopping to buy cheap cigarettes from Johnny's Cafe; everyone knew Johnny was cool, it was the 90s, things were cooler back then. I've put a lot of miles in the clock since then, I reckon I've driven around the earth at least once or maybe a decent part of the way to the moon and things change all the time but most of the street names remain the same. From time to time I'll turn down a road to meander along memory lane feeling nostalgic because of the street names. Every town has a Church Street and 5th Ave but what about Somerset Ave, Van Der Stel Rd or Livingstone Drive?
Who are these people and why is there a street named after them?
I saddened and embarrassed to say I don't know enough of the history about these names and their streets, except for the history behind Prince George Rd in Brakpan, Google it like I did. Names change, mostly, when someone did something significant to warrant a street renaming of 3rd Avenue to Nelson Mandela Avenue. It's infuriating when some asshole bribes some bottom feeding government fool to erase history and stroke their tiny ego. Africa remembers nothing so it cannot learn anything. America remembers, Europe remembers, Asia remembers, Oceania remembers...

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