Finding an 80-year-old typo in Houston

• Holcombe announced the initiative in November 1940, according to a transcript of the speech.
• "Houston has needed badly a complete marking of our streets," Holcombe said in the radio address. "I am happy to announce that the Washington government has finally approved my plan for installing within the next few weeks 5,000 concrete markers for our streets."
• Houston Public Works claims Holcombe wanted the pillars to be installed because the city's famed blue tiles, installed sometime before 1930, were too dirty to read.

Reality check: Calumet Street doesn't contain the letter N.

• Yet, the pillar at the corner of Calumet and Jackson reads "Calument" instead of "Calumet."

The bottom line: This appears to be the only pillar on the street with the misspelling.

• Having existed nearly 80 years, I don't imagine the typo will be corrected any time soon.

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