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Naming the conference rooms

Now that the paint is (mostly) dry in the new office, it’s time to start naming our conference rooms. Ideally, conference room names work in a theme (preferably one that that offers a slight puzzle) that is easily memorable and unique enough to not confuse the rooms. To add to the requirements, we also wanted something that reflected our Austin location.

After some creative brainstorming, we finally decided to go with the original historical street names of the numbered streets in downtown Austin.

For a little back-story on this, I pulled the following quote from the article, “Austin: Where the streets have many names (and history, too).”

“With the exception of Congress Avenue, the streets running north and south downtown parallel the order in which rivers flow throughout the state. From east to west, the streets (and the rivers) are: Sabine, Red River, Neches, Trinity, San Jacinto, Brazos, Colorado, Lavaca, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Nueces and Rio Grande. Most of the numbered downtown streets bore tree names until the late 1880s. They included:”

• Second Street - Live Oak
• Third Street - Cypress
• Fourth Street - Cedar
• Fifth Street - Pine
• Sixth Street - Pecan
• Seventh Street - Bois de Arc
• Eighth Street - Hickory
• Ninth Street - Ash
• 10th Street - Mulberry
• 11th Street - Mesquite

So there we have it. Simple, unique enough to remember, a local flare, and a slight puzzle for the out-of-towner’s. [And yes, thankfully we only needed nine names.]