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Originally Posted by ajiuO
Was main street ever actualy called east temple? Seems like I was curious about that once but couldn't find anything to support it.
I know that prior to some time in the 1960's the center of our street grid use to be the entire temple square block. This made it impossible to give everything on the block a proper addresses. So the center of the grid was shifted to the intersection of main and south temple. This resulted in all the north/west streets being shifted by one block 300 west actualy use to be 2nd west.... This is also when they switched from using 1st, 2nd, 3erd to 100, 200, 300... So if you have ever wonders why so many utahns refere to a street like 600 south as 6th south... That's why... It actualy use to be that way.
I'm not sure if east temple would be a good name for main any more.... It doesn't actual go to the east of temple square. Maybe state street could be east temple
Here is the intersection of 300 west and north temple when it was still called 2nd west... Notice the street sign.... I remember when they tore down Denny's in the 80's. They built taco time in it's place (it's now a subway). The ironic thing is that it appears that the overpass is being paved... Just as it is now. I should try to get a current shot
I got this from google maps.. So the perspective is kind of skewed.
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As has been pointed out, Main did used to be called East Temple St. You can find thousands of references to it in the Deseret News Historic archives:
http://www.deseretnews.com/historic/?searchString=east-temple-st
The center of the street grid was NEVER the center of Temple Square. It's always been the corner of Main (East Temple) and South Temple. The only difference is that West Temple and State St. didn't have numbered designations originally, as they do now. So now West Temple is also 100 West, and what was 100 West is now 200 West. The same is true to the east. State St. originally had no numbered desgination, then the next street to the east of State was 100 East. In the '60s, they changed that so now 100 East is 200 East.
It's not just Utahns who refer to streets such as 200 as 2nd also. It's used in other places.
Uhhh... Temple Square still ends at Main st (just because there's a plaza connecting it with the church office building block doesn't mean that Temple Square goes all the way to State St. now.
Having a street named "Main St" is for small towns, not the urban center of a 2m metropolis.
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