I’m often fascinated by apartment building names (housing development names go right alongside). They usually represent either pretensions at grandeur (“The Regal Arms”) or tranquility (“The Driftwood”). Neither usually applies to the reality — the “Tahiti Breezes” may have a palm tree in front of it or something, but that’s usually about it. But they are, at least, evocative of something, usually the sense of affluence and shelter.
Over by Katherine’s school, there’s an apartment building with the name, “The Ocelot.”
Huh?
maby it’s a cat themed development.
That seems unlikely.
Maybe it’s an (offbeat) reference to the luxury of ocelot fur. Which, if so, would make it as inapplicable to the actual location as so many of these names, as well as being … unusual.
When I lived at the Beachcomber/Outrigger apartment complex in Montclair, 60 miles from the beach, my Hawaiian friends would tease me mercilessly.
I love how the name of a popular area is used much farther and wider than the area itself encompasses. I live in the city of San Diego accross the line from the county. Bonita, where I grew up, is a well to do area that remains as semi-rural as you get in SoCal. The apratments down the street from me are named “Bonita View” and “North Bonita,” and there are several Bonita named things that are located in the cities of Chula Vista and National City. Of course, not being incorporated, Bonita has no power to stop them!
A “Beachcomber” apartment only 60 miles from the beach is a piker! I recall seeing apartments titled “The Hawaiian” or something like that in several places in southern California, 2300 miles from Hawaii!
There’s one building here in Fort Collins that puzzles me: The “Emily” apartments. Who is Emily, and why would anyone want to move into her apartment?
She sounds like a nice old lady who would be baking cookies when you came home from the office.
Or, alternately, the name of the original owner/builder’s wife or daughter.
I’m still trying to work out what the hell the name of the apartments I currently live in is supposed to evoke. They’re called: Saratoga North.
Assuming it’s not something logical, like a reference to neighborhood (or even the neighborhood of the “original” Saratoga apartments), then it sounds like a nostalgia/classical/Americana thing.