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3 unusual facts about Central Avenue


Carver Center for Arts and Technology

Douglass High was attended by the cream of the City's black student elite and a "who's who" among famous graduates and the later Paul Laurence Dunbar Community High School, (#414) founded 1918/1925/1937 at 1400 Orleans Street, near North Central Avenue in East Baltimore, was also available to Baltimore County students and several numbers attended in the years before the 1950's integration.

Central Avenue

Minnesota State Highway 65 is known as Central Avenue in Minneapolis and some northern suburbs

New York State Route 100 from southern tip of the route to White Plains, in Westchester County, New York


Bannered routes of U.S. Route 71

Becoming Walton Boulevard, US 71B crosses Central Avenue before again meeting I-540/US 71 and terminating at Exit 93.

Orlando Street Railway

One branch ran from the Church Street Station of the South Florida Railroad east on Church Street across Orange Avenue to Magnolia Avenue (then Main Street), then south on Main Street to a Methodist Episcopal church, and another branch ran east on Central Avenue from Orange Avenue.


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Avenida Rio Branco

The facades of buildings for the Central Avenue were chosen in a contest, in which jurors were, among others, Mayor Pereira Passos, Paulo de Front in the Minister of Transportation and Public Works, Lauro Müller and the Director General of Public Health Oswaldo Cruz.

Central Avenue Corridor

Central Avenue was originally named Center Street upon Phoenix's founding with the surrounding north-south roads named after Indian tribes.

Dayanand Saraswati Marg, Chembur

This road, formerly called Central Avenue Road, was given its current name in memory of Dayanand Saraswati - the founder of the Arya Samaj, an important reform movement in Hinduism.

Howard Rumsey

The first Lighthouse All-Stars was a group made up of Los Angeles musicians who had been a part of the Central Avenue scene in the 1940s, including Teddy Edwards, Sonny Criss, Hampton Hawes, Frank Patchen, Bobby White and Keith Williams.

Louisiana Highway 611

LA 611-2 continued along Central Avenue northward to a terminus at U.S. 90/LA 48 (Jefferson Highway).

Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery

Large memorials to the destroyed shtetls of Lithuania and Lida, and victims of the Babi Yar massacre, feature prominently along the central avenue of the western section of the cemetery.

Roxana, Illinois

In the early 1940s, a large Art Deco-style theater was built at the northwest corner of Thomas Street and Central Avenue, at 400 N. Central Avenue.

Thomas R. Allen

In 2010 Allen cosponsored an ordinance with 30th Ward Alderman Ariel Reboyras that designated a stretch of Central Avenue in the vicinity of its intersection with Belmont Avenue as "Honorary Lech Kaczynski Way" to honor the deceased Polish President.

WBBH-TV

The two stations share studio facilities located on Central Avenue in Fort Myers; WBBH's transmitter is located along SR 31 in unincorporated southeastern Charlotte County.

West Duluth

West Duluth's Spirit Valley business district is easily accessible from Interstate Highway 35 at Central Avenue.