The Sears Tower

[glatt]

Yeah, that works to a point, but what if you are talking to someone a few years down the road, and they don't know what you are talking about because they only know it by the new name?

[dar512]

I'll be old or dead by then. Nobody's going to listen to me anyway.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by glatt

Yeah, that works to a point, but what if you are talking to someone a few years down the road, and they don't know what you are talking about because they only know it by the new name?

I don't think it really matters because the people will call it whatever they want anyway. In Phoenix we have Bank One ballpark (the BOB), even though it officially became Chase Field a couple years ago.

We still have Squaw Peak and Squaw Peak Parkway even though our former govenor (current head of homeland security) ramrodded a name change through more than five years ago.

Even on a smaller scale we call a particular soccer facility "wallball" even though that name changed about 20 years ago.