This is a common sight in most American communities west of the Mississippi. When those cities were laid out, they were in blocks of the same size. Usually the street names started at First and proceeded numerically. The further from city center, the larger the street number. Streets at right angles were usually alphabetic. “Downtown” might have been a dozen blocks between First and Third streets to the north and south and A to D avenues to the east and west. But Anchorage, Alaska was different. There is no J Street in Anchorage. Anchorage had a large Scandinavian population when the city was founded in 1916. Since the letter “J” was pronounced by Scandinavian as “Y,” it was left out to avoid confusion. Illustratively there was a joke circulating in the early days of a bank president who saw a teller showing unusual ability handling money. Impressed, the bank president asked where the teller had learned to handle cash so efficiently. “Yale,” the man replied. Impressed, the bank president asked for the man’s name. “Yohnson,” the man replied.