# 22 Acacia Avenue

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578 "2001-06-04T21:51:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chubbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Chubbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chubbs)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578/1 "2001-06-04T21:51:17Z")

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Besides being a song by Iron Maiden is this a real place? If so what the story behind it?

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578/2 "2001-06-04T22:10:10Z")

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Eerie…29 Acacia Avenue was where Eric, aka Bananaman, lived in the kid’s cartoon of the same name…

(oh, okay, there’s some sort of rough explanation [in this link](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Concert/6551/steve1.html))

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578/3 "2001-06-04T23:01:03Z")

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It’s a movie…

[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0037489](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0037489)

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578/4 "2001-06-04T23:03:09Z")

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Um…that’s **29** Acacia Avenue. The OP says **22** (but interesting link nonetheless…now I’m convinced Bananaman was an unoriginal hack).

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578/5 "2001-06-04T23:15:52Z")

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oops

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**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22-acacia-avenue/67578/6 "2001-06-05T06:59:51Z")

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From lyrical context I gather it is a whorehouse.

That’s all I can offer. Maybe some of the UK dopers have a better answer.