10/16/2004: Rainbow-colored Albanian building

[hampor]

In Massachusetts towns, the fire department is responsible for giving out house numbers. They are the ones who have to find the house in the dark, so I guess that makes sense.

On some streets, though, they renumbered the houses but allowed the owners to keep the old numbers if they like.

Also, the numbering starts over at the beginning of each street. and increases as you leave town. I lived for a while in 155, then in number 24, then in number 3. I was amazed when I visited California where there are 5 digit house numbers.