[...] the street, which stretches between an antique store and a much-loved BBQ joint, ties Autry to his hometown. A petition to turn Industrial Boulevard - a colorless name - in Dallas into a street honoring native son Stevie Ray Vaughan looks to have lost momentum. The West Side Highway turned out to be a notable thoroughfare that didn't rob a historical figure of his legacy. [...] with its numbered grid of streets, New York can better accommodate small stretches of a street with an entertainer's name. [...] most of the streets carrying names of people in Houston tend to be of an older vintage named after benefactors, civic leaders, old guard Lone Star legends and city-founder types, which can make them a good instigator for research if not a tourist photo destination. According to public affairs manager Suzy Hartgrove, the city's Planning and Development Department used to have a petition process for what they called "vanity street names," but that service has been discontinued. Developers are responsible for new street names, but new housing seems an odd place to honor, say, a music legend. Here he was a bar owner, a charter member of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 and a tactical and brave hero of the Battle of Sabine Pass. Growing up, when we weren't living out of a converted school bus, working crops, I lived just off a small dirt road in Paris, he says, and Paris is what I call my hometown.
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