And when the big refurb on Bush Street and the alleys feeding into it was going down in the last week or two, Burritt got its name — after Judge Burritt, and his farm that used to exist on this site, in the old, old days — etched into concrete just like Dashiell Hammett Street (across Bush and a tad west).
Thought you should know. Make an entry in your Hammett site diary. The alley where Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, got bumped off — it just got a sidewalk-facelift.
