login
Ridiculous / unusual street names
-
No new posts
|
 2007-08-27 6:16 PM |
Elite  2553    Tucson, AZ |  Subject: Ridiculous / unusual street namesI'm not sure who licked the Colorado River toads before naming some street names in Tucson, but some names are just plain strange. Here are some that I've recently come across (and can remember):
Some of the Spanish street names get out of hand. One by my old house was "Via De Las Palimeritas". I used to live on "Paseo Del Tornasol." I found out you could remove all vowels and the mail would still get there. Thankfully I now live on "Soldier Trail." The requirement for buying a new house was that the streetname get simple and shorter. Curious to hear what some of the crazy street names are in your area. Edited by PirateGirl 2007-08-27 6:17 PM |
| 2007-08-27 6:22 PM in reply to: #942993 |
| Sydney Australia | Subject: |
| 2007-08-27 6:24 PM in reply to: #942993 |
Champion 8903   | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names In my town we have "Skunk's Misery Road" and I have no idea how it came to be named thusly.
|
| 2007-08-27 6:38 PM in reply to: #942993 |
| Mountain View, CA | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Many of the names around here are Spanish in origin. I grew up on a street called "Purissima," which wouldn't be very amusing except that it intersects "Concepcion." We also have roads that sound like they're straight out of a western: "Whiskey Hill," "Trout Gulch," etc.
|
| 2007-08-27 6:43 PM in reply to: #942993 |
Champion 6285 Beautiful Sonoma County | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Eric used to live on Alameda de las Pulgas. For those of you whose Spanish is a bit rusty... that means Avenue of the Fleas. Nice. |
| 2007-08-27 6:44 PM in reply to: #943032 |
| Mountain View, CA | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names madkat - 2007-08-27 4:43 PM Eric used to live on Alameda de las Pulgas. For those of you whose Spanish is a bit rusty... that means Avenue of the Fleas. Nice. Yes! I knew there was a great one around here that I'd forgotten. |
 2007-08-27 7:12 PM in reply to: #942993 |
| Subject: ... This user's post has been ignored. |
| 2007-08-27 7:22 PM in reply to: #942993 |
| Pro 4507 Simpsonville, SC | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names |
| 2007-08-27 7:54 PM in reply to: #942993 |
Champion 6627 Rochester Hills, Michigan Gold member | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names I-75 north, through Detroit, has an exit...Big Beaver Road. Could it be a coincidence it's exit 69? I don't think so... |
| 2007-08-27 9:39 PM in reply to: #942993 |
| Veteran 1108 Perth, Oz | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names oh I've got a whole list of wierd suburbs and street names but the ones that spring to mind are a suburb - Cockburn Street my friend lives on not wierd but I love it because it reminds me of BT - Buttercup Lane and purely for the originality of it a beach named - City Beach (why because its near the City duh) |
| 2007-08-27 11:46 PM in reply to: #943237 |
| Champion 6285 Beautiful Sonoma County | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names and purely for the originality of it a beach named - City Beach (why because its near the City duh) Yeah... in San Francisco, the beach at the western edge, by the Pacific Ocean, is called... "Ocean Beach." Yeah, that there's some creative naming there, folks. |
| 2007-08-28 1:00 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Veteran 1108 Perth, Oz | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Ohh that reminds me there is a suburb here called Ocean Reef! |
| 2007-08-28 5:54 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Elite 2998 Fishers, Indiana | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Okay, while not your typical names. over here (in Iraq) the military gives names to all the roads we use...there is one called "Yo Mama" road...yes, it's true. Our commander has to give a brief to the general, and we had a unit that was attacked (minor, nothing bad at all) on that road and so the colonel had to brief the general (it's over a VOIP system) about an incident on "Yo Mama" road...he didn't believe us at first when gave him the script, hahaha, it was GREAT! |
| 2007-08-28 6:11 AM in reply to: #943006 |
| Expert 647 Sarnia, Ontario | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names max - 2007-08-27 7:24 PM In my town we have "Skunk's Misery Road" and I have no idea how it came to be named thusly.
We've got one of those too! Another of my favorites is "Dorkus Bay Road". Around the corner from me is "Fairweather road", most of it is clay so if it has rained in the last week it's impassable to all but the 4x4's that want to try their luck. |
| 2007-08-28 6:58 AM in reply to: #943387 |
| Champion 6539 South Jersey | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Street Road. Seriously, just make up your mind already. |
| 2007-08-28 7:55 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Elite 4504 Columbus, Ohio | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names We have a couple good ones here in C-bus. Leather Stocking Trail Cherry Bottom Rd. (I always call it "Nice A$$ Rd.") |
| 2007-08-28 8:06 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Champion 7495 Schwamalamadingdong! | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Lois Lane |
| 2007-08-28 8:13 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Crystal Lake, IL | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names As far as obvious-type DUH! street names go I've got one. The steepest hill around here is in Bull Valley called.......can you guess it........Valley Hill Rd. See, there's this valley, and a hill. And when you put a valley next to a hill you get......never mind. Rohlwing Rd. I've heard a million people say this street name and there are almost as many ways to say it. |
| 2007-08-28 8:27 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Elite 3519 San Jose, CA | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names Tschieffley Square Circle |
| 2007-08-28 8:39 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Sneaky Slow 8694 Herndon, VA, | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names I used to live on Princess Lane. Very emasculating, to have to admit that you live on Princess Lane. One year, some pranksters painted over the "nce" on the sign with green paint. |
| 2007-08-28 8:41 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names I work on Wacker Drive. They're filming the new Batman movie on Lower Wacker. In Omaha there's `Dorcas Street' ... probably where Kiley lives. |
| 2007-08-28 8:44 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Pro 4189 Pittsburgh, my heart is in Glasgow | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names There is a street up the way from me, and it is named "Flicker" Drive, but it is printed in all caps so it looks like FLICKER drive. Some kid bridged the gap between the L and the I with a sharpie... Edited by phoenixazul 2007-08-28 8:44 AM |
| 2007-08-28 8:59 AM in reply to: #943511 |
| Champion 6539 South Jersey | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names |
| 2007-08-28 9:17 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| Regular 114 Louisville, KY | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names In Lexington, KY there is a Pink Pigeon Parkway. A very nice use of alliteration even if the road runs through a horrible eyesore of suburban sprawl and stripmall plazas. On the IM Louisville course one of the side roads out in the country was Penny Lane. Probably not uncommon, but a Beatles reference has to be mentioned. |
| 2007-08-28 9:22 AM in reply to: #942993 |
| , Alabama | Subject: RE: Ridiculous / unusual street names We used to live on Quilting Lane. My husband was SOOO embarassed to have to give out our address. Now we live on Loch Tanna Loop...from effeminate to just plain weird. |
|
|
|
|
View profile
Add to friends
Go to training log
Go to race log
Send a message
View album
CONNECT WITH FACEBOOK