Street Names

[SeaCat]

For a while I lived on a road named after a famous, (okay maybe not so famous,) Owner of a mill on Cape Cod. His name was bernard James. (Why his mill was important I have no idea.) So what did they name his road? B.J. Road.

Cat

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

weird street names

Well I used to live on a road called Whipstick in Connecticut, then I moved to a Kent Court I never heard of anyone being named Kent or a court nearby. egads!

 

[Weird Harold]

At the risk of slightly derailing the thread, anyone live on or near a street made famous in the music industry? Blackberry Way? Strawberry Fields? Route 66? Salisbury Hill? A long and winding road?

My mother winters in Topock, AZ which is on "Historic Route 66."

Originally posted by boota
We have a housing addition here where all the streets are named after cars. Pontiac, Cadillac, Buick, etc. Another housing addition has Candy, Sugar, and Honey Lanes.

My daughter just moved into an area where all of the streets are girls' names -- Heather Marie, Judith Ann, etc.

Themed names in housing developments are pretty common. In fact, I think the Pink Rose Ln that prompted this thread is probably an "extension" of a street name in the development across the street from the High School -- I haven't consulted a map to see what the street names are in that development.

Ogs, it sounds like London renamed the only non-inappropriate named street in the whole city -- I've read about Grope Cunt Lane before, and IIRC it got the name because it was the designated street for legal prositution at one time.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Which brings us to an interesting adjunct. At the risk of slightly derailing the thread, anyone live on or near a street made famous in the music industry? Blackberry Way? Strawberry Fields? Route 66? Salisbury Hill? A long and winding road?

Gauche

Highway 101, of which that fool was the terror, runs through the town where I live.

 

[cantdog]

There's a development with a Drew Lane, a Heather Street, and so on, named for the nieces and nephews of the developer.

Across the river a development with Robinhood , Maid Marian, and so on.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Pfioridy Lane.

How do I know about this? My first day working alone I got a trouble on that pole.

-Colly

Colly had trouble with a pole?

*snickers*

I live in a neighborhood affectionately termed "The Bird Streets". My street name is not important but when I give directions and explain that the street behind mine is called Swallow, which incidentally connects to Peacock everyone gets all giggly. The pizza place thinks it's a hoot.

~lucky

 

[snooper]

Bristol (the original one, not a modern imitation) still has There And Back Again Lane which has, naturally, only one way in and out. Students have been known, on a number of occasions, to put "No Entry - One Way Street" signs on it.


Years ago, Brussels had Rue da la Corps Nue sans Tête, but it was "lost" during the rebuilding after WWII.

 

[oggbashan]

Kent (UK) Road Book.

I got out my street map book to find these:

Ashford has:
Blue Line Lane
Court Wurtin
Cross Stile
Dunkery Rise
Eggringe
Engineers Ct (Court?)
Knock Road
Knotts Square
Little Knoll
Long Beech
Long Length
Long Walk
Mace Lane
Old Ash Close
Old Pond Road
Penlee Point
Riding Hill
The Rise
Rising Road
Sprotlands Avenue
Tudor Byway
Tudor End
Ulley Road
Wallis Road (What was the Duchess of Windsor doing there?)

That is just one town. My mind can make double-entendres out of most of those.

Og

 

[minsue]

The town of Carefree, AZ has a lot of silly street names, my favorite being the intersection of Ho and Hum. Closer to home, I always smile at Camino Sin Nombre. The one that drives me insane, though, is Table Mesa* Rd. I've had more arguments with people who say that it's not redundant because, "Mesas are flat like tables."



*For anyone who doesn't know, a mesa is a table which is why they call those flat-topped mountains mesas. I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it really does irritate the hell out of me. I think I need professional help...

 

[oggbashan]

Gropecunt Lane

Gropecunt Lane, or Grope Cunt Lane (they weren't consistent about spelling it) was renamed Love Lane.

It was the red light district off Cheapside in the City of London.

The same name also occurred in Bristol and Banbury.

Og

 

[MathGirl]

There's a road up in the foothills named "Widowmaker Lane."
MG

 

[Guest]

San Francisco's Maiden Lane off Union Square is a block-long alley with posh shops (Chanel, etc.) Originally it was a "red-light" area.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

damn

I thought I was gonna get to see people's gang names here....lol


I live in the hood...all the streets have numbers LOL

 

[Nemasis Enforcer]

Not too far from me is a road called CLIFF ROAD even tho it leads to a sewage plant!!! and there is no cliff in sight!

 

[SeaCat]

Okay

In Osterville Mass. there is a development which has normal names for streets. They are all named for pieces of sailing ships, including Sail Lane, Rudder Ave., Keel road, etc. You have to drive all the way to the end though for the humor. The last road is called Shipwreck road. (Okay you have to have a warped sense of humor to see this one.)

Cat

 

[SnoopDog]

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name


I want to feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name


Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do


The city's aflood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name


Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love
See our love turn to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do


Snoopy

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

Not too interesting, but I lived on West North Street. Where my sister lives, all the streat name have numbers and directions. I told her they should auction off streat names to raise money for the city. (I forgot the official word for 'money for the city, lol)

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

This thread reminded me of Anne of Greene Gables. She didn't like the plain and functional names of the roads and lakes and places around her, so she gave them her own names

 

[matriarch]

Betty Haunt Lane where a local lass is rumoured to have lost her life for telling tales to excise men (actually means "between hunts"). At the end of the road is a pub, correct name The Blacksmith's Arms. Known locally as 'Betty's Aunt'.

Matriarch

 

[sweetnpetite]

Our biggest stripclub (all-nude) is on Jolly Rd.

 

[sweetnpetite]

We have a Martin Luther King Blvd, which used to be called Logan. Malcom X lived right nearby or on that road as a child. However, we have no Malcom X Road anywhere in the city. (Lansing, MI)

 

[Marsipanne]

I don't think there are any interesting street names here in Cambridge (the UK one). Trying to think...nope, unless you count Tennis Court Road (where there seems to be a lack of a tennis court). Oh, we have our own 'Downing Street', but that's because it's near Downing College (I've got a friend studying law there). And the main road (Hills Road) seems remarkably flat asides from the rail bridge. Y'know, living in Cambridge is really cool. It's like the LA of the scientific world. My mum's colleague was once getting her hair cut and she turned round and guess who was havnig a hair cut next to her? Stephen Hawking.

 

[gauchecritic]

Y'know, living in Cambridge is really cool.

Cambridge? Isn't that near Oxford? I know someone from Oxford. In fact I know a couple of people from Oxford

Gauche

 

[Marsipanne]

It's not too far from Oxford. Oxford and Cambridge Universities are famous for their excellence and contributions to the scientific world and infamous for their rivalry.

Here, you're officially not allowed to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge. I think its roots lies in that if you applied to both neither would accept you in fear that the other would reject and you would be in danger of taking someone else's left-overs. Now, you legally cannot apply for both. This is certainly discrimination for Oxbridge and seems rather old-fashion in my opinion.

 

[A7inchPhildo]

How about "Uranus drive" Sarasota FL.

It would be fine if the other roads around were planets or something. Most of them are names, and then Uranus stuck in the middle.

There are other funny names, but that one kills me. I know so immature......