Specwriter Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Maybe Homer Simpson's Canadian cousin named the neighborhood. EaDo = Eh? Doh! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Call it what you want but Old Chinatown doesn't get you very far past the Kim Son to me. I always thought the reference to "Chinatown" was a bit odd since so many of the businesses there such as Kim Son were owned/run by people who immigrated from Southeast Asia, i.e. Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, etc. Vietnamtown doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Vietnamtown doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. You bring up Vietnamese a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Vietnamtown doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. IndoChinatown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Vietnamtown doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. . . . and "Indo-Chinatown" is not much better. Society today can be a bit sensitive about labels anyway. To my mind "Chinatown" always seemed segregationist if not unintentionally racist. Fortunately, Houston and the surrounding area is so diverse such labels don't really make sense. That's why we have the Harwin District. Back to the thread topic: IMO "EaDo" is a contrivance of the pseudo-cool and hip wannabes, i.e. marketing wonks. I doubt Tribeca in Manhattan was first a marketing moniker. It probably arose informally from residents and neighbors as a loose description of that area. Once it was formalized (and used as a name for a particular model of automobile) it lost "cool-ness." How about the name "Gentrificationtown" for the area east of downtown on the other side of U. S. 59? I think "Yuppieville" has already been used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 ...I doubt Tribeca in Manhattan was first a marketing moniker..."Triangle Below Canal Street" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribeca I'm under the impression that NYC has a lot of neighborhoods that were really rough parts of town in the past, and/or they grew to be what they are now (the names) out of convinience to people who are by and large rather impatient. Houston should have a few neighborhoods with quirky names: Rice Military, The Heights, Eastwood, Woodland Heights etc. but they should be named so because that's what they are and historically have been. EaDo is silly (acceptable), but silly and not really needed. ...of course there was a time when Rice Military or The Heights was something else and then it too was renamed. Everything starts somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I think The Heights were always The Heights, but it seems that the Rice Military name is much more recent. Not sure of its background though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Well, it was orginally Camp Logan I believe?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Military,_Houston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I think The (Houston) Heights, Woodland Heights, and Eastwood were names selected by the developers to denote their developments much like River Oaks and Tanglewood. Today, as one can see from some of the spirited debates on various threads in this forum, "the Heights" is a more loosely defined area. Yes, New Yorkers are much more abrupt in their speech and by that I mean more economical with syllables, not rude. Maybe because it is colder there they try not to open their mouths any longer than necessary to conserve body heat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchFan Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 It's interesting how these monikers for gentrifying neighborhoods generate so much emotion. (I'm not immune, either, I just enjoy speculating on why it is.) I think Denver adopted "LoDo" early enough not to sound too copycattish. I think Houston arrived late in the game, so, EaDo sounds corny. But anyway ... it's not really such a big deal. Personally, if I had to copy that old trend, I'd tweak it toward something slightly different, like "EaDoHo", which sounds kinda like Japanese. But then, that would conflict with the tenuous "Old Chinatown" connection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchFan Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Or we could call it "Edo", the old name for Tokyo. That way, we could be super-cool, at least for awhile! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 "the Heights" is a more loosely defined area. lol. I remember not too long ago areas that were part of the original heights (as a historical map would show) had people who denied living in the heights. Now though? I wouldn't be shocked to see someone living near Yale and Crosstimbers saying they live in the heights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 lol. I remember not too long ago areas that were part of the original heights (as a historical map would show) had people who denied living in the heights. Now though? I wouldn't be shocked to see someone living near Yale and Crosstimbers saying they live in the heights. Especially developers. They love to stretch the truth when labeling or mapping their location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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