This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YaB.2ACI/1440.3 Message Board Post: Gene is right about old 4th St now being NW 4th. The OKC City Council voted in March, 1929, to change all of the street names in south OKC (which, as mentioned, was merely the stockyards and Capitol Hill) to numbers to avoid what they claimed was confusion. There are many articles in the newspapers of that time about all the protests, some of which escalated into sign theft. The council directed that all street names be painted on the curbs at intersections with the new street numbers following in parentheses after the names. In a few years, the names were removed and the new numbers were exclusively used. There was every intention at that time to rename Reno, Sheridan, California, etc; but somehow the city never got around to doing so. A more complete post about this renaming will follow soon.