Calle de Garci-Nuño

No firm record survives of whom this Valdeacederas street honors, opened in 1972 between Capitán Blanco Argibay and Plátano. The Garci-Nuño surname, though, was familiar in the Tetuán of those years. There was a Garci-Nuño theater on nearby Tablada, run by a family of actors of the same name, and the sign may have come from there. The same surname became familiar through another door. On Bravo Murillo, at number 257, stood the Garci-Nuño pharmacy, a shop anyone in the neighborhood could place. Beside its sidewalk a stone marker survived for a long time, one of those that marked where Madrid’s boundary ended and that of Chamartín de la Rosa began, still an independent town until 1948. Which of them all lent his surname to this street went unrecorded.