You have to understand it is pronounced go-eeth-ee. Speaking of which, the first syllable of Houston St. in NYC rhymes with house. And Arkansas Ave. in Atlantic City is pronounced ar-kans-uhs.
St Mary has two butts not far from where I live.
And an axe in London.
Actually, the City of London has lots of odd street names, not ending in anything sensible like Street or Road or Avenue. Off the top of my head, there’s Crutched Friars, Petty France (not actually in the City, that one), Little Britain, Aldermanbury, Bevis Marks and the rather evocative Undershaft.
My Niece and Nephew live on Johnwood Street in Memphis
Hawaiian names are a hoot. I particularly like the state fish: humuhumunukunukuapua’a, the apostrophe being a glottal stop.
It used to be that if you took 195 off 95 N in Providence, then the Wickenden St. exit, you’d see a sign across the street at the bottom of the ramp for the New England Butt Company, rear entrance.
The older neighborhoods in Columbia, Maryland have mostly literary-themed neighborhoods and streets. Thus, the villages of Running Brook (Robert Frost: *“Fred, where is North?” “North? North is there, my love. The brook runs west.” “West-running Brook then call it” West-running Brook men call it to this day) * and Hobbit’s Glen (with street names like Oakenshield Court).
Phoenix has an interesting run of street names that includes Captain Dreyfus Avenue, Emile Zola Avenue, Victor Hugo Avenue, Joan de Arc Avenue, and Voltaire Avenue.
For exotic Hawaiian names, you should see the stage names that Hawaiian singers take. Just when you thought you could pronounce “Don Ho”, there’s Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani and Nina Kealiiwahamana.
Actually, Nina’s other name might have really been one of her given or ancestral names. OTOH, I believe Boyce’s real last name was Martinez. And Ho is a Chinese name, but I don’t think that was his real name either.
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I stand corrected. Don Ho’s name really was Don Ho. From the article cited above:
Roseville, California has a street named Chignahuapan Way. I guess it’s named for a town in Mexico, though I don’t know why.
Sacramento has streets named after inventors - Fulton, Watt, Howe, Edison, Marconi. There is a shopping area where Arden Boulevard crosses Howe that’s called Howe 'Bout Arden.
A suburb near me, scroll down to street names
Couch Street was named after John H. Couch, a pioneer and sea captain known for navigating the Columbia River.
But I’ve covered this already.
An area of streets in Britain named after Apollo astronauts. Poor Anders got a bit unlucky, though.
The street that largely encircles the campus of California State University, Los Angeles is called Paseo Rancho Castilla, which always struck me as a bit odd.
A deliberate joke, but: there are street signs on the walkways in Disney World’s Port Orleans resort. One of the streets is “Rue d’ Baga”.
Albuquerque has a number of streets named after things you mine: Lead, Coal, Gold. You probably saw a few of them on Breaking Bad.
And here’s a real one in New Jersey: Shades of Death Road.
I’m not even sure if this should count, but a lot of roads around here that are basically zoned commercial/industrial have odd names, like Chemical Road, Computer Drive and Applied Card Way.
(Applied Card Way is near War Admiral Lane, which is named after a racehorse.)
A well-known one from my neck of the woods: Big Beaver Rd.
Bonus: It’s exit 69 off the local freeway.
And let’s not forget the late, great Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (his real name).
As for Don Ho, that was his real name. His full name was Donald Tai Loy Ho, and he was of Hawaiian and Chinese ancestry.
A tangent, but that must be one of the shortest real first+last name combinations of any well-known figure.
Can anyone think of any four- or three-letter celebrity names - real name or a variation, first+last? Or even other five-letter ones?
Cher.
Cher probably doesn’t count since that’s just a single name. But how about Stan Lee?
That’s typical or Rochester, where so many other place names aren’t pronounced as they seem.