Do you use the old name?

[Alpo]

If there is a business in your town, and they change the name, do you call them by the new name, or still use the old one?

 

When I was quite young, my brother was born at Bay Memorial Hospital. A few years later my mother was a nurse at Bay Memorial Hospital. It is now Bay Medical Center. People look at me strange, when I say something about Bay Memorial.

 

First bank account I ever had was at Bay National Bank and Trust Company. Second job I ever had was at Bay National Bank and Trust Company. Now it is simply Bay Bank. Whenever I speak about the place, I call it Bay National. Again, people look at me strange.

 

As I am sure most towns are, my town is broken up into "sections". St. Andrew, Oaklant Terrace, the Cove, Highland Park, Drummond Park, etc. And each "section" had their own elementary school. The year after my brother finished sixth grade at Drummond Park Elementary, they changed the name to Lucille Moore Elementary. Now, that's fine, but I still refer to that school down the street as Drummond Park. And people say, "Where?"

 

I probably do this because I am old and set in my ways. Possibly just because I'm stubborn as hell.

 

But I wonder. Anyone else do this? Or do you latch on to the new name, and use it.

 

 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

Yep :-)

[Lone Roc Ranger]

Sure do. I live in Pennsylvania. Wine and hard liquor can only be purchased through the State run stores. So far anyways for the most part. They were call 'State Stores' but many years back their name was changed to 'Wine and Spirits' stores. My brain will not allow my lips to call them anything but State Stores. And when I mention State Stores to the younger generation they look at me like I'm crazy.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

First learned .. Best remembered. I get annoyed when they change the day from Monday to Tuesday.

Seriously, no. I usually call things by the name I first learned. Sort of like the Los Angeles Rams.

 

Coffinmaker

[Shawnee McGrutt]

Yes

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Yup, still the Boston Braves and the New York Highlanders

[J-BAR #18287]

Brooklyn Dodgers?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Brooklyn Dodgers?

 

ahem "Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers"

[Blastmaster]

Works for houses too.

 

Your house will always be referred to by the previous owners. It will not be referred to your house until after you sell and move.

[Lazarus Longshot, SASS #44254 Life]

Works for houses too.

 

Your house will always be referred to by the previous owners. It will not be referred to your house until after you sell and move.

Same thing for boats. When Eddie sells his boat to George, it becomes "Eddie's old boat."

 

Laz

[Blastmaster]

Remember where the ol Gambles Store building use to be? Turn right there and go by the new Post Office, and make another right turn at Sunshine Corner.

 

 

 

I live on the old Blackburn property , Which became the Kelly's property and a house, which sold again,,,, and here I am. Thus, you got to mention all three owners when giving directions to a local (plus who lives on the other side of the street) because there are many generations of folks here and each knows a different era.

[Charlie Whiskers]

We have a chain of stores here in the NW that sell everything from western wear to firearms and reloading supplies. It's a farm and ranch type of store but they have just about any and everything you'd need except groceries. Up until about 5 or 6 months ago they were called Big R stores. Then they broke off from that corporate brand and now call themselves North 40. I still refer to them as Big R. Same store, same inventory, same folks working there, just a new hard to get use to name.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

A popular eatery in my area just went from "Oklahoma Joe's" BBQ to "Joe's". I don't get it.

 

And in a similar vein, "Avenue of the Americas" and "Fashion Avenue" in New York City will always be 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue to me.

 

And for that matter, the Cotton Bowl will remain just that -- not the Goodyear Cotton Bowl. Don't get me started....

[Clay Mosby]

A few years back Sears Point Raceway was changed to Infineon Raceway. It will always be Sears Point to me.

[Bama Red]

If I'm talking to someone I know is new to the area, I'll try to use the current name. Otherwise, the old place names just tumble off the tongue with little or no effort.

[Shawnee McGrutt]

I use the formally known as names of places, to confuse people,who have moved in from away. It is some what of a past time, around here. I bet a lot of you guys do it as well.

[Tom Bullweed]

Nascar has not been the same since it stopped being the Winston Cup. Even the word Nascar doesn't seem right.

 

I had a 1956 Ford Fairlane. The owner's manual repeatedly called the company FoMoCo for Ford Motor Company. I guess that idea that motors come with all cars finally caught on. By the mid 60s, the company was referred to as Ford in the manuals.

[Michigan Slim]

Old grocery store by our first house. Rodgers Market. Then Scotts, then bought by Kroger. I still call it Rogers. Kids look at me like I fell off the moon.

[Charlie Whiskers]

Nascar has not been the same since it stopped being the Winston Cup. Even the word Nascar doesn't seem right.

 

I had a 1956 Ford Fairlane. The owner's manual repeatedly called the company FoMoCo for Ford Motor Company. I guess that idea that motors come with all cars finally caught on. By the mid 60s, the company was referred to as Ford in the manuals.

 

I had one of those. Mine was the Victoria. Not the Crown Vic just the standard hard top. That was my 1st car.

[The Yankee Bandit, SASS #59258]

I live in a farming community. Every farm seems to be known by who owned it at least fifty years ago. "That's the old Jackson place." "I'm headed over to the old Smith place to pick up some hay." Never mind if the "place" has changed owners half a dozen times since then. Even if a Jones has bought and paid for his farm and lived there 10 years, he will usually be referred to as "Jones that lives at the old Parker place." Your farm has to stay in the family for 2 or 3 generations before it actually becomes yours.

[Trailrider #896]

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, often called just "The 'Q'", was actually jointly owned by the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railway. Until 1969, the Interstate Commerce Commision wouldn't let them keep the same set of books. Then they "merged" and became the Burlington Northern. Then, the Santa Fe bought the Denver & Rio Grande Western, and the BN as it became to be called, merged with the resulting road, to become the Burlington Northern Santa Fe. But that was too long, so now it's just the "BNSF"...which is owned by Berkshire-Hathaway!

 

Back in the 1880's or so, David May started The May Company in Trinidad, Colorado (IIRC). In Denver, that merged with the Daniels & Fisher company to become "May-D&F". In Chicago, Marshall Fields & Co. was a famous department store...until Macy's bought both Marshall Fields and May-D&F, and I don't know what all else! Now they are all just Macy's!

 

Now, Heinz and Kraft are merging. Do you like catsup with your cheese?

 

You just can't tell the players without a corporate scorecard!

[SGT. QUINCANNON, SASS #32999]

Down in Texas, My wife's mom lived in a house for over 50 years, and still the neighbors, called her house "the Johnson Place" from the family who lived there before her. It would be, "Jed, this is Myrna Talbot. She lives in the old Johnson Place." Now, a new family lives there. They are introduced as
"The Marsden Family. They live in the old Talbot Place." And so it goes...

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

Yes. Do it all the time.

 

Folks laugh at me when I say that I have to think about how I give directions in the area that I grew up in because I tend to use land marks that are based on things that used to be in particular spots or where folks used to live when I'm deciding on a route to travel.

[Nasty Newt # 7365]

First learned .. Best remembered. I get annoyed when they change the day from Monday to Tuesday.

Seriously, no. I usually call things by the name I first learned. Sort of like the Los Angeles Rams.

 

Coffinmaker

I'm still mad at Georgia.

[Finagler 6853 Life]

Don't worry Alpo, most folks look at you strangely. I get the same thing.

[Yohanaqua]

We still call the town nearest us "the settlements". It seems to be understood by the locals and we don't much care about anybody else.

 

ML

[Eamon Chute]

And what about street names.........?

 

We have one street in San Francisco that is a fairly major east/west corridor on the east side of The City. It changed names many years ago, but you can tell who the natives are as we still use the old name.

 

 

EC

[Elk Creek LeMieux]

The condition is called "primacy."

 

Like Coffinmaker said, your brain doesn't like to overwrite the first thing you learned on a given subject.

[Ramblin Gambler]

It's a mix for me. We still give directions to using the blimp base as a point of reference. Only, it hasn't been a blimp base in a long time, it's now a ford dealership. The only concession we make is to call it "The Old Blimp Base". On the other hand, I started an account at a bank that was quickly bought by another bank, and then quickly bought again by wells fargo. Since I'd heard of and was familiar with wells fargo, I had no problem calling the bank by the new name. In short, I guess it depends on how long I knew it under the old name.