Cheap Eats

[WetInPortland]

I have written a 3-day dining guide on our new website for our place (opening Sept 2019): 3-day dining guide to Cozumel - Stingray Villa

Greg - it would help if you'd put locations on the dining guide ...

 

[WetInPortland]

At the risk of sounding like a twit, I'd like to point out that the "Avenidas" are in increments of five and go South and North and that the "Calles" are in increments of two, with the even numbers being on the North side of town, and the odd numbers being on the South, and they go East and West.

Until some other twit gives you an address of Calle 11 Sur and Avenida 30, which you won't find on a current map because they are now QRoo and Coldwell. It's nice that Mexico honors its heroes, it but screwed up an otherwise perfectly good system. A friend was giving me a hard time about not knowing where 11th is!

 

[El Graduado]

it is much more complicated than that. The avenidas only run MOSTLY in increments of 5 and MOSTLY east/west. When you travel east on Calle 7, once you are past Ave 30 (now Avenida Pedro Joaquin Coldwell), the cross streets are:
Calle Francisco Mujica
Avenida 35 sur
Calle Felipe Angeles
Avenida 40 sur
Avenida 40 sur bis
Avenida 45 sur
Avenida 50 sur
Avenida 50 sur bis
Avenida 55 sur
Avenida 55 sur bis
Avenida 60 sur
Avenida 65 (now Avenida 8 de Octubre)

Other weirdly-arranged street numbers are found travelling south on Avenida 65 where the streets are in this following order on your right:
Calle 23 sur
Calle 1 sur
Calle 25 sur
Calle 5 sur
Calle 27 sur
Calle 29 sur
Calle 13 sur
Calle 31 sur

In another spot in Colonia Chen Tuk the streets are in the following order:
Calle 3 sur
Calle 3 sur A
Calle 3 sur bis
Calle Morelos
Calle Morelos A sur
Calle Morelos B sur
Calle 5 sur
Calle 5 sur bis
Calle Miguel Hildago
Calle Miguel Hildago bis
Calle 7 sur

In other words, the rules are… made to be broken!

 

[mstevens]

My house is between 15 Avenida Sur Bis and 15 Avenida Sur Bis C. They really needed to pack in some streets between 15 and 20...

 

[mstevens]

One of my old favorites, Casita de Indio, has disappeared, and I don't know if they moved or what.

It's on Rosado Salas between 5 and 10, nearer to 10, on the south side.

 

[JamesBon92007]

it is much more complicated than that. The avenidas only run MOSTLY in increments of 5 and MOSTLY east/west. When you travel east on Calle 7, once you are past Ave 30 (now Avenida Pedro Joaquin Coldwell), the cross streets are:
Calle Francisco Mujica
Avenida 35 sur
Calle Felipe Angeles
Avenida 40 sur
Avenida 40 sur bis
Avenida 45 sur
Avenida 50 sur
Avenida 50 sur bis
Avenida 55 sur
Avenida 55 sur bis
Avenida 60 sur
Avenida 65 (now Avenida 8 de Octubre)

Other weirdly-arranged street numbers are found travelling south on Avenida 65 where the streets are in this following order on your right:
Calle 23 sur
Calle 1 sur
Calle 25 sur
Calle 5 sur
Calle 27 sur
Calle 29 sur
Calle 13 sur
Calle 31 sur

In another spot in Colonia Chen Tuk the streets are in the following order:
Calle 3 sur
Calle 3 sur A
Calle 3 sur bis
Calle Morelos
Calle Morelos A sur
Calle Morelos B sur
Calle 5 sur
Calle 5 sur bis
Calle Miguel Hildago
Calle Miguel Hildago bis
Calle 7 sur

In other words, the rules are… made to be broken!

An what, exactly, does "bis" mean?

Just when I thought I had some of it figured out....

 

[El Graduado]

An what, exactly, does "bis" mean?

It is from Latin and it means "again", as in: Calle 1, Calle 1 Again, Calle 2, etc. You see it a lot in Latin American street designations and addresses. Like: 1405 Avenida Xelha and 1405 bis Avenida Xelha. It is a means for squeezing in one more when the original plans were not adequately thought out and you don't want to rename or renumber everything. Adding A, B or C to bis is when the city planners REALLY screwed up.

 

[ggunn]

It is from Latin and it means "again", as in: Calle 1, Calle 1 Again, Calle 2, etc. You see it a lot in Latin American street designations and addresses. Like: 1405 Avenida Xelha and 1405 bis Avenida Xelha. It is a means for squeezing in one more when the original plans were not adequately thought out and you don't want to rename or renumber everything. Adding A, B or C to bis is when the city planners REALLY screwed up.

Here in Austin we have 38 1/2th (thirty eight and a halfth) street, and it's a pretty major street.

 

[El Graduado]

Here in Austin we have 38 1/2th (thirty eight and a halfth) street, and it's a pretty major street.

Yes, there is a 38 ½ street in Austin and today it is a street with a lot of traffic. But, it was not originally planned to be named 38 1/2 Street.

Back in 1900, when that area was first divided into lots, today’s 38th street was named Pitts Avenue. On the east side of the Country Club, today’s 39th street was named Cato Street. Today’s 39th on the west side of the Country Club was named 2nd street. Today’s 40th on the west side of the Country club was originally named 3rd street. Grooms Avenue (Later renamed Duval) ran perpendicular to Pitts Avenue. To the east of Grooms (Duvall) and to the west of Peck (the western boundary of the Country Club) ran a two block long unnamed street. In 1930, that two block long unnamed street was christened Cordelia Street. In 1940, Cordelia was extended on the other side of the Country Club and ran to Cameron Road (now I-35). Still later Cordelia was renamed 38 ½ street, to fit in with the numerical numbering system that was previously used in a hodge-podge sort of way. At the same time, most of the other street names in the area were “adjusted” to fit this numerical system (the aforementioned 2nd street was changed to 39th, 3rd was changed to 40th, etc.).

Nobody ever makes a plan to start out with streets named ½ or bis.

 

[ggunn]

Yes, there is a 38 ½ street in Austin and today it is a street with a lot of traffic. But, it was not originally planned to be named 38 1/2 Street.

Back in 1900, when that area was first divided into lots, today’s 38th street was named Pitts Avenue. On the east side of the Country Club, today’s 39th street was named Cato Street. Today’s 39th on the west side of the Country Club was named 2nd street. Today’s 40th on the west side of the Country club was originally named 3rd street. Grooms Avenue (Later renamed Duval) ran perpendicular to Pitts Avenue. To the east of Grooms (Duvall) and to the west of Peck (the western boundary of the Country Club) ran a two block long unnamed street. In 1930, that two block long unnamed street was christened Cordelia Street. In 1940, Cordelia was extended on the other side of the Country Club and ran to Cameron Road (now I-35). Still later Cordelia was renamed 38 ½ street, to fit in with the numerical numbering system that was previously used in a hodge-podge sort of way. At the same time, most of the other street names in the area were “adjusted” to fit this numerical system (the aforementioned 2nd street was changed to 39th, 3rd was changed to 40th, etc.).

Nobody ever makes a plan to start out with streets named ½ or bis.

How and when did you become an expert on Austin streets?