# Exotic street names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494 "2014-04-19T17:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/141 "2014-04-28T03:09:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s not its official name, but [Salsipuedes,](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FxSUaBjM-pw/UfqyEqsysGI/AAAAAAAAJEk/xQBIg9j8_yU/s1600/DSC_0533.jpg) a narrow street in a poor area of Panama [filled with shopping booths,](http://www.travel-images.com/pht/panama147.jpg) means “Get out if you can.” There [is in fact a street](http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/img/news/2010/SBmap.png) (and I think a major street, as it has a freeway offramp to it) by this name in Santa Barbara, Ca. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/142 "2014-04-28T03:37:07Z")
Houston, TX = Kuykendahl - pronounced KERK-en-dall San Felipe - San FILL-e-pee ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/143 "2014-04-28T22:12:33Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > Honolulu has three consecutive ‘political’ streets: Republican, Democrat and Home Rule. I think with Hawaiian street names, you have to consider the context, so this example really is more exotic than Kalaniana’ole, Likelike, Kahekili, etc. The streets named after the European and American Caucasians are the ones that stand out to me - Bishop, Dillingham, Isenberg. I always knew where those streets were. God help you try to find a specific street named Ala \_\_\_\_ near Salt Lake – there’s a dozen of them. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/144 "2014-04-28T22:49:39Z")
Palo Alto has many streets named after famous writers - Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Kipling, Cowper and Lytton from a quick look at Google Maps. I’ve always like Klickitat Street from the Ramona books - which counts because it is a real street in Portland. I made a pilgrimage the first time I visited Portland. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/145 "2014-04-29T03:21:40Z")
When I lived in Albuquerque, my apartment was on the corner of University and Indian School. I always thought Indian School Road an interesting name, given the history of sending the Indians to those schools. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494/146 "2014-06-11T14:57:16Z")
In Lexington, Ky., “Horse Capital of the World,” we have Man o’ War Blvd., which partially encircles the city. Part of it passes by Hamburg Place, now a sprawling shopping development, formerly a [horse farm founded by John E. Madden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Madden). Many of the streets around the development are named for Thoroughbreds bred by the farm, including Sir Barton Way (the first winner of the Triple Crown), Alysheba Way, Princess Doreen Drive, Star Shoot Parkway, Ogden, Old Rosebud, Plaudit Place, and the weirdest as far as street names go, Pink Pigeon Parkway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-street-names/686494.md?page=7)