The city of Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan was born (he was raised largely in Hibbing) is naming three streets after him — at least on an honorary basis. From the Duluth News Tribune:

Duluth city councilors voted 8-1 to give the honorary designation — which means no one in the area will need to change their letterhead or driver’s license — from The Depot at West Fifth Street, east along Michigan Street to where it meets Superior Street and ending at London Road on 15th Avenue East.
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Some residents have criticized the choice of Michigan Street, calling it grungy and like an alley. Supporters, however, said it houses many art organizations and is on the edge of redevelopment.
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The area includes the beginning of London Road, which turns into Minnesota Highway 61, the same highway that Dylan named “Highway 61 Revisited” after. Councilors settled on a section of London Road in front of the historic Armory, where Dylan famously was inspired by a Buddy Holly concert.

The appropriateness of using the block that includes that Armory is uncanny. Dylan saw Buddy Holly in 1959 at that venue. Three days later Holly was dead in the airplane crash that also killed Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Dylan recently referred to that on his radio show as “the day the music supposedly died.” Seeing Holly undoubtedly made a big impression on Bob, and he even mentioned his memory of that concert when he received his Grammy for 1997’s Time Out of Mind, and alluded to feeling Holly’s spirit nearby during the making of that record.

Of-course it needs no comment from me to highlight the aptness of also using a street that leads into Highway 61. As for Michigan Street, which some residents have said is “grungy and like an alley,” well, there’s only one thing you can say in response to that:

Shakespeare, he’s in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells

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