Race You To Vine, Winner Gets A Walnut

Duplicate streets and thoughts on the nature of towns and cities

Race, Vine, Walnut. Those are three street names I’m familiar with from Philadelphia, which I noticed clustered closely together in downtown Cincinnati the other week. The tree names are common enough, but Race and Vine seem more unique, and I immediately thought of Philly.

Missing in the overlap are Elm (Cincy only) and Market, Arch (renamed from Mulber…