Washington D.C has a street named every letter of the alphabet except "J"

[MrScorpio]

Try sleeping tonight with that stuck in your head.

[xultar]

1. Isn't it because the guy who designed the city disliked a guy with a J

in his first name?

[MrScorpio]

3. Nope,

Pierre L'Enfant was not a "j"ophobe

[sniffa]

2. i thought j's were easy to come by down there.

:shrug:

[MrScorpio]

5. It all depends on where you're looking

Parts of DC can become a target rich environment for "J"s

[Jara sang]

4. There is some method of figuring out where you are in D.C.

The numbered streets, the lettered streets and the "State" streets all form some kind of weird grid and if you know the equation you can figure out where you are in D.C. by using it. Unfortunately I don't know it.

[MrScorpio]

6. It's pretty simple

Numbered streets go east to west
Lettered ones go north to south
States go diagonal

Piece o' pie

[Jara sang]

7. Is there some kind of reason behind the placement of the "state" streets?

Like the ones that go from the capitol are all the original thirteen colonies or something.

[MrScorpio]

8. You got me on that one

I'm too busy hanging out on Wisconsin

[KG]

9. my 'hometown'. DC is a great town

you can step out of a strip joint, look north up the street, and see the WH. only in america!