{"id":30677,"date":"2018-07-01T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30677"},"modified":"2018-07-01T00:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T00:52:55","slug":"its-sixth-avenue-not-sixth-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30677","title":{"rendered":"It’s Sixth ‘Avenue,’ not Sixth ‘Street’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AMARILLO, Texas<\/strong> — My wife, son and I spent some time this afternoon strolling along Historic Route 66, which was decked out with displays, booths, food vendors and classic cars.<\/p>\n

We had a good time looking at displays and catching up with old friends.<\/p>\n

OK, now for the nit-picking part of this blog.<\/p>\n

I want to clear the air on the thoroughfare that is known as Historic Route 66. It happens to be Sixth Avenue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And yet … I keep hearing locals refer to it as Sixth Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I keep asking myself, um … why?<\/p>\n

Does “Sixth Street” roll off the tongue more smoothly? Does it sound cooler<\/em> than “Sixth Avenue,” which is how the city has platted the thoroughfare.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to be a griper. I just want to set the record straight on the street that so many of my Amarillo friends misidentify with no apparent or outward knowledge of the right-of-way to which they are referring.<\/p>\n

Hey, my wife and I don’t live here full time any longer.<\/p>\n

Please don’t think ill of me. I’m just seeking a bit of home-town accuracy.<\/p>\n

I will conclude with this: Sixth Avenue was packed and it looked to me like a lot of folks — a lot of whom likely came from some distance away — were having a wonderful time.<\/p>\n

Even in this summer heat!<\/p>\n\n

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AMARILLO, Texas — My wife, son and I spent some time this afternoon strolling along Historic Route 66, which was decked out with displays, booths, food vendors and classic cars. We had a good time looking at displays and catching up with old friends. OK, now for the nit-picking part of this blog. I want … Continue reading It’s Sixth ‘Avenue,’ not Sixth ‘Street’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7852,4668],"class_list":["post-30677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-historic-route-66","tag-texas-panhandle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30679,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions\/30679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}