Who was Ed Bluestein? What’s up with the half streets? More Austin street name trivia

A slight change of plans for our “Streets of Old Austin” project.

Two weeks ago, inspired by a San Francisco Chronicle study of all 554 major streets in that city, we proposed something similar for the “From the Archives” column in the American-Statesman.

We launched our efforts by reviving extracts from some previous columns that dealt with how early streets in Austin earned their names. Today’s installment will continue in that vein, but with a split mission for the future…

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