Brief by Betsy Marston
Miscellany – August 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
Desert Developments
What if you added a street to your city but couldn’t figure out what to name it? Booming Las Vegas faces that problem as it scrambles to keep up with explosive growth, reports the Las Vegas Sun. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of new streets expand the city each month. Some towns resort to numbers and letters; but the gambling mecca has borrowed everything from liquor brands to songs since it long ago ran out of dead presidents and trees.