State Street West: Fill & Download for Free

Downtown Salt Lake City was originally laid out like a Cartesian graph, with the origin at Temple Square. From the Temple, State Street runs east-west and Main Street runs north-south. North-south streets parallel to Main Street are named 100 W, 200 W, 300 W. . . or 100 E, 200 E, 300 E. . . East-West streets parallel to State Street are named 100 N, 200 N, 300 N. . . or 100 S, 200 S, 300 S. . . So addresses look like latitude and longitude coordinates. For example, there happens to be a nice bookstore at 2017 S 1100 E—it’s on street 1100 E (the 11th street east of Main), on the 20th block south of Temple. The airport Holiday Inn happens to be at 200 N 2100 W. And so on. The only time I visited for any length of time, it was confusing, but I daresay a couple more days and I’d have gotten the hang of it.Where there are mountains and creeks in the way, the scheme gets disrupted. Some later developments—like the interstate highways, the railroads, and some jack-wagon real estate developers who failed to see the sense in Brigham Young’s original design—also tend to break the pattern. So Salt Lake City is no longer the perfect chessboard that it was planned to be. Still, at least in the downtown, and especially south of Temple Square where the ground tends to be flat, it comes closer than anywhere else I’ve been.

Downtown Chicago has expanded greatly in the past 100 years. In includes North Michigan Ave (Magnificent Mile) as well as Streetersville.Starting from The Lake and heading west.West on Roosevelt StNorth at State StreetWest on CongreesNorth on I 90 / I94East on Fulton StNorth on Clinton StEast on Kinzie StNorth on State StEast on Bellevue PlSouth along The LakeBack to starting point at Roosevelt St

Utah has only three seasons: winter, spring and orange cones. They come out every year and disrupt traffic everywhere.Street addresses. Almost every town in Utah is laid out in a grid, with the 0/0 point in the center of the town. The street south of the point is 100 South. Then you have 100 East, 100 West and 100 North. This goes up the further you move away from center. So most address are two numbers: 575 East 500 North. The house number is 575 (east five blocks and a bit) on 500 North street. It sounds confusing, but it really isn’t once you get the hang of it. You never get lost, because all you do is look at a street sign and you know where you are.Salt Lake City’s center is Temple Square, which is not in the center of the town now, so they have just a few blocks north, but it goes all way over 100 blocks south. Also, 100 North there is North Temple, 100 South is South Temple, 100 East is Main Street (not East Temple), and 100 West is West Temple. 200 East is State Street, which runs from the State Capitol south for miles to Point of the Mountain.Everyone smiles. Really, almost everyone there smiles, says thank you, seems happy to help you. Clerks, bus drivers, store personnel, everyone seems happy.Wide streets. When Brigham Young was planning Salt Lake City, he wanted the streets so wide a team of oxen could make a circle. Hence, all the streets are at least four lanes wide, and no one lost any front yards for the traffic. Most main roads in almost all of the towns are wide as well. Unfortunately, it didn’t carry out to West Valley, Kearns and Hunter, and some of the mountain mining towns couldn’t do it because of topography. But by and large, there are very wide streets everywhere.And fry sauce. It’s some mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise, available only in Utah. That one I’ll never understand.