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The Aplets & Cotlets factory in Cashmere may be gone聽soon, but two roads in the Chelan County town that were named after the candies are probably here to stay. That got us wondering about other 鈥渂rand-name streets鈥� in the area.

Back in the 1990s, Liberty Orchards, maker of Aplets & Cotlets since around 1920, considered a move west to Leavenworth. It鈥檚 a complicated story 鈥� almost like when a sports franchise pits one city against another to get a better deal 鈥� but a negotiation began, whereby the City of Cashmere tried to keep Liberty Orchards from leaving town. Liberty Orchards president Greg Taylor asked the city for a number of incentives, including renaming streets.

鈥淲e don’t have good visibility from the highway and so we tried to come up with ways that could increase the visibility of our presence in Cashmere and lead people to us,鈥� Taylor told 成人X站 Radio on Thursday. 鈥淎nd so we came with the idea of changing the street names, … which would put additional signage on [Highway 2] and give people a path to our factory tour.鈥�

鈥淎nd so we proposed [the street renaming], and we proposed some other things, some more parking and that kind of thing,鈥� Taylor continued.

Taylor says most people in town were supportive of Liberty Orchards鈥� request, 鈥渂ut there was a small minority of very vocal people who kind of stirred up the hornet’s nest, and it turned into a real conflict in the community.鈥�

鈥淚t was a surreal deal,鈥� Taylor said.

At the height of the controversy in October 1997, the New York Times even weighed in with a story about the sticky situation 鈥� 鈥淥ld-Fashioned Town Sours On Candymaker鈥檚 New Pitch.鈥� Greg Taylor says New York Times鈥� writer Tim Egan described him in the piece as a 鈥渃orporate bully,鈥� which Taylor now chuckles about.

鈥淧eople love that I was called a 鈥榗orporate bully,鈥� and remind me of that,鈥� even now, Taylor said.

Does Taylor officially deny that he was a “corporate bully”?

鈥淚 don’t think I am, certainly not now,鈥� Taylor said, still chuckling. 鈥淢aybe I was then, who knows? I鈥檝e softened.鈥�

The timeline is a little murky, but at some point in the fall of 1997, the Leavenworth deal fell through because Taylor said the move and the tenant improvements required at the space in the faux Bavarian village didn鈥檛 pencil out. Ultimately, the City of Cashmere balked at most of what Liberty Orchards had asked for, but on Nov. 24, 1997, the City Council voted to change the name on the part of Division Street leading from Highway 2 to the factory 鈥淎plets Way,鈥� and change part of Cottage Street alongside the factory to 鈥淐otlets Avenue.鈥�

Cashmere Mayor Jim Fletcher told 成人X站 Radio earlier this week that there are no immediate plans to change the names back if and when Liberty Orchards goes out of business and the Aplets & Cotlets factory shuts down.

Meanwhile, Cashmere 鈥� which was originally known as Mission, but which changed its name in 1903 to reflect its agricultural aspirations to mimic the lush 鈥� isn鈥檛 the only Evergreen State community where streets have been renamed for companies or products. Here are a few other notable examples.

Farman Street in Enumclaw

Farman Street in Enumclaw goes right by the site of the old Farman Brothers 鈥� 鈥淗ome of the King Pickle鈥� 鈥� pickle factory. Farman鈥檚 was a major pickle brand in the Northwest for decades. It was founded in Enumclaw in 1944 by Fred Farman and Dick Farman; the company was sold to Nalley鈥檚 in the 1980s and closed in 1989, with cuke and brine operations moved to Tacoma.

Incidentally, both Nalley鈥檚 and Farman鈥檚 are now manufactured by , whose pickle plants very, very far from Enumclaw and even Tacoma, for that matter: in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and North Carolina.

In 1981, a few blocks of the boringly named 鈥�284th Avenue Southeast鈥� north of Highway 410 were renamed 鈥淔arman Street鈥� not for the company, exactly, but for company co-founder Fred Farman, who was the beloved mayor of Enumclaw when he died of a heart attack in May of that year.

City Council minutes indicate that Crystal Street North was the street designated to change names to Farman Street, but it鈥檚 unclear if that part of 284th was known by that name 40 years ago. Regardless, though Farman鈥檚 closed in 1989, the street name remains 鈥� and perhaps should be considered a tribute to Fred Farman rather than to the old pickle factory.

Microsoft Way in Redmond

The software giant moved to Redmond from the Northup area of Bellevue 鈥� they had been in small building not far from the Burgermaster — in February 1986. A spokesperson told 成人X站 Radio in an email that sometime around then, Microsoft took action via a City of Redmond building permit to convert the uninspiring 鈥�157th Ave NE鈥� to 鈥淢icrosoft Way,鈥� and to designate the company鈥檚 official mailing address as 鈥淥ne Microsoft Way.鈥�

The actual dates are unclear, but one of the earliest online reference using that address is a classified ad in a Texas newspaper from September 1989 looking for technical writers willing to relocate to the Northwest.

Other Brand-Name Streets?

Other examples of brand-name streets include Weyerhaeuser Way near the timber company鈥檚 former headquarters complex in Federal Way; the Boeing Access Road in Seattle near Boeing Field; and Costco Drive 鈥� which exists in both Tukwila and Burlington, and which, not surprisingly, both lead to the front door of the respective Costco in those communities.

Related examples that don鈥檛 quite fit would include Rainier Avenue, which was most definitely not named for the beer; the Nalley Valley Viaduct, an unofficial but once very common name for Highway 16 west of I-5 in Tacoma (Nalley鈥檚 operations there closed in 2011); and the entire city of Carnation, which was formerly Tolt, but which was renamed by the state legislature in 1917 for the Northwest-born dairy company.

Are there any brand-name streets in your community that we missed? Please reach out via my contact information below.

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