Broad Street - Street Name Plaque Clues
#1
Posted 18 September 2006 - 12:45 PM
Of Age Its
Bones Below
In My Honour
#2
Posted 18 September 2006 - 12:50 PM
...but now I'm truly intrigued. When/if you find out more of the meanings behind the codes could you post them here?
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#3
Posted 18 September 2006 - 12:52 PM
#4
Posted 18 September 2006 - 12:57 PM
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#5
Posted 18 September 2006 - 01:07 PM
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#6
Posted 18 September 2006 - 01:47 PM
I checked his blog but its rather bare and silent on this topic. I have not looked in his book so I'll have to do that when I'm in Bolen's or Munro's.Perhaps Victoria's resident riddle buster, Ross Crockford, might have some more info on this? http://unknownvictoria.blogspot.com/
I have all the morse code translated but I didn't post them all because I didn't want to spoil anyone's fun. Apparently the order makes a difference so I need to do some messing about to get them to make some sense. It looks like a poem.He just wrote the meanings of three of the codes above...they're not the street names.
I did find a presentation given by a city employee a couple of years ago about the revitalisation project and it seems to imply that the clues are not just in the street name plaques but also in the castings. Oddly, it also makes reference to something called "future fragments" but I have no idea what that might be. So, there may be more clues to be found on the street to solve the puzzle. I will have to go back and check the castings now that I know.
#7
Posted 18 September 2006 - 02:19 PM
#8
Posted 18 September 2006 - 02:19 PM
You'll see other things around town that were created to help blind people. At some busy busstops, you'll notice there is a patch of sidewalk that is deliberatly bumpy (usually with circles that rise up from the cement). These are so blind people know exactly where the stop is.
You'll see the same thing on the sidewalk directly in front of the entrance to CNIB on Richmond street.
#9
Posted 18 September 2006 - 03:57 PM
#10
Posted 19 September 2006 - 07:14 AM
#11
Posted 19 September 2006 - 08:14 AM
As a cab driver in Victoria for more than twenty years I’ve driven Broad Street thousands of times. Early in the spring of 1999 I was invited by the project architect to join the Broad Street Revitalization arts core team. My role, as a writer and poet, was to research the history of the street and suggest ways of generating text that, integrated with paving design and sculptural pieces, would map out a three-block long installation. I responded to the archival material by walking the street, and, while the visual artists were sketching, came up with Broad Street Blues. – Michael Kenyon
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