Talking of classic signage, here’s one a couple of miles from my house
And in Sandwich itself we have such delights as “Knightrider Street” “the Butts” (not uncommon in the UK) and the one that send me into a nomenclative fatal loop “No Name Street”
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Moving thread from General Questions to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS).
I went to high school just off of Guess Rd. It seemed apropos at times.
My folks lives on a Yellow Brick Rd; it is gravel.
Redneck Avenue runs from Little Ferry to Moonachie. New Jersey.
McG.
There’s a set of streets in my city named for US presidents. Way back when the streets were getting named they started with Washington and ended with Lincoln. But politics screwed with the names of the streets, so it isn’t as easy to deal with as it sounds. For example, the street that should have been Pierce is named Western, and the city plannners didn’t like Pierce, deeming him pro- slavery(or at least neutral on the subject) There’s also two major streets downtown that didn’t get a presidential name, although they are in that section. And since there would be two Adams streets, one is named Quincy.
There is Booger Hollow Road near Cedartown, Georgia.
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“Holler” is a Southern corruption of “hollow”, which is another term for a valley or low spot. “Booger” is a shortened corruption of “boogie man” as in “the boogie man will get you if you don’t watch out!”. In other words, haunted valley.
I like Booger Holler better.
Indeed I did. :o
And let’s not forget the architect IM Pei.
As for street names, where I grew up the nonnumbered streets were sectioned off into themes. None very odd-sounding, but you could often approximate where something was by the name. There were city names (I grew up just off of Chicago Avenue), flowers, colleges, some others.
Not really exotic, but I spent a few years as a child on a street on base at West Point called “Stony Lonesome”, which I always thought was cool.
In the greater Cincinnati area, we also have “Seldom Seen”, “Devil’s Backbone” and “Easy Way”.
Must be a tough town to sweat a perp in.
“Easy Way, please. And could we stop by the cleaners? I got pants I need to pick up.”
However, his full name is Ieoh Ming Pei, so he doesn’t come close to beating Li Na.
The street is actually named after a now defunct ranch/farm.
Eh. Disqualified on several levels, IMVHO.
I’m sure we can find some existential artist out there who’s renamed herself “A” or “1” or even " " (did I say Prince? I did not) but I think this search only makes sense if it’s for real birth names or some equivalent.
Slight hikack:
Here in Oregon, we have the town of Gervais, pronounced locally as “Jer-vis” which drives me crazy.
End of hijack. Carry on.
True, but no calls him Ieoh Ming Pei, just like no one calls that other guy Donald Ho.
In Windsor, Ontario there are a couple… The main street is called Ouellette, but pronounced “O-Let” instead of it’s real French pronunciation, and Pierre street, which is pronounced “Peer-ee” street…
No idea how I forgot it, but Columbia also has Huger Street.
hyoo-GEE
In the Willamette Valley (Oregon) the locals call these two towns:
Gervais (Jerr-vis) and Buena Vista (Byoona Vista).
Of course they’re near Champoeg - which is tough even if you know the pronunciation (Shampoo-ee).
Back in the day, Bob Hope did a commercial for Texaco featuring the new refinery in Anacortes (Anna-core-tess) WA. He called it “Ann-ak-ruh-tease” to the delight/chagrin of the local inhabitants. Good times.
Yeah, but the standard that was asked for when this first came up was first name + surname, not initials + surname. If we go by what people are called, then no one beats U Nu and Ba U.