Anyone who's lived in Tucson long enough has likely encountered a stravenue, but it can be easy to forget just how much of an oddity they are.
Atlas Obscura, an online magazine that touts itself as the definitive guidebook to the world's most wondrous places, recently decided that stravenues deserve a write-up, and gave their readers a history lesson about the oddly titled street-avenue hybrids that are only found in Tucson.
The website provides a brief history of stravenues, explaining their birth as a result of Tucson's grid construction.
Although Cherrybell Stravenue was the first, Tucson now has more than 30 stravenues spread across town, and we're the only city in the nation.
Read the full article here.
