AVENUE M EYED AS MEMORIAL STREET MAY GET SHUTTLE'S NAME.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich Mike Antonovich might refer to:
Avenue M intersects with Challenger Way in front of the Air Force Plant 42 assembly complex where the space shuttles The term Space Shuttles refers to partly or fully reusable launch vehicles for regularly placing payloads into low earth orbit. See:
``This action will recognize the contribution of the entire NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. team, the astronauts aboard Columbia, and the men and women of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley who created and maintained Columbia,'' Antonovich said Tuesday. Antonovich's motion, to be voted on next Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, calls for coordinating with Lancaster and Palmdale city councils to study the feasibility of renaming the street. Avenue M runs through all three jurisdictions, and it is inside Palmdale where it passes Plant 42's Site 1, the shuttle-assembly complex. Lancaster and Palmdale mayors both said they favor renaming the street in honor of the shuttle, though they noted that homeowners and businesses on the street should be consulted about the inconveniences of changing their address. ``I do see on the surface that is very, very agreeable,'' Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford: ``There is a certain amount of irritation when we change names. I don't want to minimize the inconvenience. I do see Avenue M may be a viable way to go. ... Maybe it does take a little solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual of the community to get there.'' Lancaster and county officials renamed 10th Street East in 1986 for the ill-fated Challenger because the street was the route by which shuttles were trucked in the late 1970s and 1980s from their assembly at Plant 42 out to Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . A suggestion had surfaced earlier in the 1980s to change 10th Street East's name to Space Shuttle Way, but residents and business owners along the street objected to changing their addresses. That objection disappeared after Challenger was destroyed in a launch explosion caused by a defective rocket engine seal, killing its seven astronauts. The new Challenger Way name proved so popular - in an odd way - that Lancaster officials had trouble keeping street signs. Thieves stole more than 25 signs off street poles in less than a year. The first Challenger Way signs were colorful ones 30 inches long, portraying Challenger ascending into a bright blue sky from a yellow-and- orange sunrise. After those were stolen, city officials replaced them with standard brown-and-white signs in hope the thieves would leave the less-attractive signs alone. Smaller versions of the original signs were offered for sale. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: A county supervisor has proposed that Avenue M, which intersects with Challenger Way, be renamed Columbia Way. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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