Woof Way

Woof Way
Neighborhood	East Liberty
Origin of name	The woof, the threads carried by the shuttle in weaving

There's a tiny little alley in East Liberty called Woof Way. Named by a dog lover, perhaps? Well, not exactly. One of the intersecting alleys, Shuttle Way, provides a clue: their names are weaving terms. In fact, the other intersecting alley, Frazee Way, was originally named Warp Way, as shown in the 1924 Hopkins street atlas. A shuttle, of course, is the wooden piece that holds yarn to be passed back and forth between the warp threads on a loom; the woof, or weft, is the resulting threads that run perpendicular to the warp. So Warp Way and Woof Way are quite appropriate names for intersecting alleys!