Minnesota is renaming a highway in honor of native son Prince, complete with purple signs

Originally published at: Minnesota is renaming a highway in honor of native son Prince, complete with purple signs | Boing Boing

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purple rain prince GIF

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They announcing a Paul Westerberg Skyway in 2024?

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At least you don’t need a new Unicode character for this street

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That I can get behind - definitely. It’s much better than renaming airports after Republican presidents.

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The Prince store in the Minnesota airport is pretty great btw (probably my favorite airport store, if that were saying anything).

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Now they need to find a clock tower they can dedicate to Morris Day

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Signs marking the highway’s name will be purple, and the name change costs will be covered by Prince’s friends and family.

Really, Minnesota? Prince is a musical legend. You couldn’t rifle through the couch cushions to find the 100K or so for the signage?

I’m both proud and embarrassed of my birth state right now…

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Used to live in the Minne-Apple in the 90s and early 2000s. Prince owned a club called Glam Slam in Downtown. He eventually sold it and the named changed. But no one called it by its new name. Instead it was referred to as “The-Club-Formerly-Known-as-Glam-Slam.”

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Groovy.

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