Go Ahead: Rename an L.A. Street

So Many Of Our Thoroughfares Are Ripe For New Names. What Would You Choose?

Is there any place in the world that talks about and obsesses over its streets as much as L.A.? The names of our roads have been immortalized in film titles (Sunset Boulevard and Cloverfield) and verse (all Sheryl Crow wanted to do was party “until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard,” while Tom Petty sang, “I wanna glide down over Mulholland”). But surely some L.A. street names are out of date, and others are simply unoriginal—like Broadway.

So of course we were disappointed when sportscaster Vin Scully rejected the idea …