Yep, and we had a Prime Minister in the 70’s named Gough Whitlam (although Gough was actually his second name).
There’s a street in a suburb of Melbourne (Ashburton) called Y Street. Why? It’s shaped like a Y of course.
New Orleans also has many French(not surprising) street names like Carondelet or Chartres but with American pronunciations. Carondelet is Kuh-rahn-duh-LET not kuh-rahn-duh-Lay
Chartres is CHAR-ters not sharh-TRUH,
Then the street names change when you cross Canal, Carondelet becomes Bourbon
Chartres is called Camp before Canal.
My sister lives between Dauphine(not pronounced how you’d expect) and Burgundy(same)
Nothing particularly “exotic”. But a lot of people, visitors in particular, can’t decide how to pronounce it. Guff? Goff? Gow?
Lots of streets in Hawaii have Hawaiian names (duh), some of them lengthy. It’s always fun listening to the malihinis (newcomers) trying to pronounce them. Two major roads in or near Honolulu are Keeaumoku St. and Kalanianaole Highway.
Demonbreun Street in Nashville.
Pronounced " da-mun’-bree-un"
I prefer Seagate’s Technology, Scotts Valley plant
920 Disc Drive
Ragged Ass Road in Yellowknife, Canada is a classic one.
Fteley Avenue, in my part of the Bronx, looks so odd that people theorize that it must originally have been Ft. Eley, until some sign maker dropped the period and space. It’s actually named after Alphonse Fteley, designer of the Croton Dam.
There’s also a neighborhood with streets with an electrical theme: Ohm, Ampere, Watt, and Radio Drive.
To continue with the “ft” theme, the 17th Governor of Pennsylvania was named John Frederick Hartranft, in consequence of which there is at least one street named Hartranft in my area… there is also a neighborhood in Philadelphia by that name.
Then there’s Interstate 76, the Schuylkill Expressway… anybody know of any interstate with an odder name?
In Crosby, Texas there is Winking, Blinking, and Nod streets. They are in order leaving town.
It’s California, nothing exotic about a Hispanic name.
When it was first built, there used to be a street named Nuclear Way in Des Plaines IL. It was right next to Bumblee Drive. Looks like it got renamed.
Sore Finger Road, Arizona.
One of the major streets here in Panama City is universally known as Tumba Muerto (officially Via Ricardo J. Alfaro.) It’s variously translated as “Fall down dead” or “Tomb of the dead,” which either way is pretty creepy.
Bangkok has an Henri Dunant Road. Dunant was the Swiss businessman who founded the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Thai Red Cross is on the corner of Henri Dunant and Rama IV.
Portland, OR, has a Couch Street downtown, except it’s apparently pronounced “kooch” (rhymes with “hooch”) rather than couch (as in a sofa).
Or else they’ve been lying to me for several years.
(EDITED TO ADD: They haven’t been lying - named after John H. Couch, pronounced “kooch,” an early resident and founder of Portland and a navigator of the Columbia.)
There’s one in La Jolla, CA called North Torrey Pines Road.
I don’t know what a North Torrey Pine is supposed to be. I wonder if they have South Torrey Pines, too? In my next life, I’m gonna be a botany major.
OP, I used to work on Ximeno Street in Long Beach (in 1991).
And my wife lived on Voorhees when she was in high school.
Are you following me around? 'Cos it’s kinda creepy.
I have a quite a collection from around the country, enough that I’ve given a Pecha Kucha talk showing them.
The world is full of punsters; in Rapid City, S.D., you’ll find Sum Pl. and Kno Pl.
Outside Alamogordo, N.M., you’ll find streets named for heavy metal bands. In suburban Columbus, Ohio, there’s a bunch named for tennis shoes (Nike, Saucony, Converse, Tretorn).
An old favorite is from Dallas: a subdivision where the streets were named Kool, Camel, Lucky, and Pall Mall.
So did I, on Orleans. St. Which in New Orleans is always pronounced /oar-LEENZ/, which is important because New Orleans is coterminous with Orleans Parish.
There are streets in Almere, Netherlands, named Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Popeye.
There is an “I Dream of Genie” street in Florida because its where the tv show was filmed.