L.A.'s newest street: Obama Boulevard

[dalton99a]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oabma-boulevard-20180828-story.html

L.A.'s newest street: Obama Boulevard
By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
Aug 29, 2018 | 7:15 AM

The Los Angeles City Council voted to rename Rodeo Road as Obama Boulevard in honor of former President Obama, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced in a tweet Tuesday night.

“We’re thrilled that Angelenos and visitors will forever be reminded of the legacy of President @BarackObama when traveling across L.A.,” he said in the tweet.

Not to be confused with the upscale Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Rodeo Road is a 3.5-mile street that runs from near the Culver City border east to Mid-City.

The move is not the first to honor the former president. In September, a resolution by state Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) to rename a portion of the 134 Freeway passed. Several California schools have also been named after Obama, and in the Monterey Bay town of Seaside, city leaders designated one street Obama Way.

[tulipsandroses]

1. Awesome!

I bet there will never be a Trump road- school or anything.
Well, maybe a jail. That would be fitting.

[rurallib]

2. I believe many toilets around the country have been designated "the trump"

[oasis]

3. Obama Boulevard!

[Cha]

9. Yes! Sounds like a Classy Boulevard!

Where all the hang out.

oasis

[Cha]

12. Check out what Hawaii did to honor President Obama..

Fish!

Hawaii's newest species named in honor of President Obama

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The new species is the only coral-reef fish that lives exclusively within the marine protected area, which was recently expanded by the President

Scientists have published a description of a new species of coral-reef fish that they named in honor of President Barack Obama. The fish, formally named Tosanoides obama, was discovered during a June 2016 NOAA expedition to the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands



https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161221111339.htm
Obama Boulevard is Too Cool!

[oasis]

15. Aloha State tribute to one our nation's classiest ever public figures.

Mahalo, Cha for bringing this to our attention.

Anything about Obama is such a refreshing relief.

[Cha]

16. I know.. Like an Oasis in

the Desert..

[oasis]

17. Whenever I think of Hawaii and fish

I get ono for some ahi and mahi mahi. yum.

[defacto7]

4. It has a ring to it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. I like it!

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

7. It will just fit right into a Jackson Browne song

Down on Obama Boulevard....it just sounds right.

[Totally Tunsie]

8. Thank you, L.A.!

[Scurrilous]

10. K&R

[Cha]

11. Mahalo, dalton! In Hawaii we have..

Hawaii's newest species named in honor of President Obama

snip//

The new species is the only coral-reef fish that lives exclusively within the marine protected area, which was recently expanded by the President

Scientists have published a description of a new species of coral-reef fish that they named in honor of President Barack Obama. The fish, formally named Tosanoides obama, was discovered during a June 2016 NOAA expedition to the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands



https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161221111339.htm
Obama Boulevard is Too Cool!

[dalton99a]

13. Wow. That's a pretty fish!

[Cha]

14. It Is! And, Obama do love the water..