Ganesh In USA

Friends,

In the city of Pomona, east of Los Angeles, the main street was

Ganesha Blvd.

The founder of this city believed in Lord Ganesha.

In 1990, this thoroughfare was renamed Fairplex Drive.

Even then, there are Ganesha Park, Ganesha Hills, and Ganesha Place

in Pamona today.

In Los Angeles downtown, there is a street, Vignes Street. I do not know

how the name originated.

Swastika, Ontario

Swastika is a small community founded in Northern Ontario, Canada in

1908. The town was named after the Sanskrit good-luck symbol Swastika.

Swastika is a junction on the Ontario Northland Railway. Until 2012, the

Northlander passenger railway service between Toronto and Cochrane

served the Swastika railway station.

During World War II, the provincial government removed the Swastika sign

and replaced it with a sign renaming the town “Winston.” The residents

removed the Winston sign and replaced it with a Swastika sign with the

message, “To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario

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Regards,

Prakash Tendulkar