Back in the 1950s, if you drove northeast down Wallace Street in the community of Rubidoux (now in the city of Jurupa Valley), you would pass 37th Street, then 36th Avenue, then 36th Street and then 35th Street.
Oddly enough, all the streets mentioned showed up on the Rubidoux Vista Tract map from 1924, but none of them had the names they had in the 1950s or today, except for Wallace Street and Mission Boulevard. How they got labeled with numbers, and how 36th Avenue got added right next to 36th Street, is a mystery.
According to an article in the Aug. 16, 1956, Riverside Enterprise, it will not surprise you to learn that the near identical street names of 36th Street and 36th Avenue caused all kinds of problems for people who lived on those two streets. The problems were so extensive that residents of that area finally petitioned Riverside County to change the name of 36th Avenue to Odell Street to clear up the problem. They submitted five pages of signatures asking for the change.
According to testimony at the public hearing before the Riverside County Planning Commission, the problems the residents faced were extensive.
The local fire department had taken to sending two trucks out when it received a call from either street — one to go down 36th Avenue and the other to drive simultaneously down 36th Street to make sure no time was lost getting to the residence that placed the call.
Mail for one street was often sent to the same address on the other street. One time a doctor went to the wrong address. Another time lumber was delivered to the wrong address and the company had to come back and pick it up and move it to the correct address.
One family on 36th Street was expecting a visit from friends who never arrived. It turned out the friends went to 36th Avenue and left when they found no one home, even though their friends were actually at home all along — on the other street.
The most remarkable story reported was that of the broken/not broken television set. A television repair man paid a service call at a house on one of the streets. When he arrived, the lady of the house wasn’t home but her little boy let him in (keeping in mind this was a different time!). He began working on the TV set and then the lady returned. She explained she had not called him and sent him to the other street. The repairman left, leaving the new tube he had installed in the “not broken” TV. Unfortunately, the TV, which had been working fine before the “repair,” began to act up, according to the Enterprise. The repairman had to return and fix the first family’s TV.
On Aug. 14, the Planning Commission recommended the name change go forward. On Sept. 11, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors confirmed the name change.
The name selected, Odell Street, just so happened to be the name the street was given on that 1924 tract map.
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