Street Signs

Most of the streets in my Mexico City neighborhood of Nápoles are named after states and cities in the United States.  I was walking down Dakota Avenue, a street that I have walked countless times, when I saw a street sign that I had never noticed before.

The rusted metal signs and the eroded concrete post make me think that it must date from the 1940s when this neighborhood was laid out.

It is interesting that the old sign spells the cross-street of Missouri that way it is spelled in the United States.

However, the newer street sign spells it phonetically in Spanish... Misuri.