# Fictional Streets, etc. Mentioned in Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984 "2004-08-22T17:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/1 "2004-08-22T17:20:11Z")
Let’s construct a city wherein all the streets are named after songs that name streets. Preferably streets that don’t exist in the world (that is, not LSD, etc.). Here’s what I’ve got so far: Fascination Street - The Cure Poison Street - New Model Army Detonation Boulevard - Sisters of Mercy Rain Street - The Pogues There have to be more, right? ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/2 "2004-08-22T17:27:33Z")
Penny Lane - The Beatles Alphabet Street - Prince 10th Street - Fun Lovin’ Criminals (ok, not exactly fictional, but never mind) Does your “etc.” include places like Strawberry Fields? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/3 "2004-08-22T17:31:02Z")
**157 Riverside Avenue** REO Speedwagon _We met a young girl on Main street, wanted to just pass her by She was homely, so lonely, She said, “Can I make love to you.” We shouted 157 Riverside Avenue._ ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/4 "2004-08-22T17:53:45Z")
Oddly, **Electric Avenue** in the Eddie Grant song actually exists. Just around the corner from Brixton station. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/5 "2004-08-22T17:55:36Z")
Sullivan Street by the Counting Crows ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/6 "2004-08-22T17:59:22Z")
Ammonia Avenue by Alan Parsons Project ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/7 "2004-08-22T18:02:23Z")
Lonely Street from “Heartbreak Hotel” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/8 "2004-08-22T18:20:27Z")
Sunny Goodge Street - Donovan Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty Love Street - Doors Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan Mainstreet - Bob Segar Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead 6th Avenue Heartache - Wallflowers Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen Tarkio Road - Brewer and Shipley Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens On Broadway - The Drifters Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/9 "2004-08-22T18:29:19Z")
Allison Road - Gin Blossums 59th Street Bridge (Song) - Simon & Garfunkel Surely the city where our streets exist is Funkytown? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/10 "2004-08-22T18:38:24Z")
Romance Boulevard by Toebeat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/11 "2004-08-22T19:03:27Z")
:smack: Abbey Road. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/12 "2004-08-22T19:10:09Z")
:smack: Rereads the OP. _Not_ in the real world. Sigh. Though I think I got confused by **Legolamb’s** post, where 10th Street is called not fictional, but Penny Lane isn’t. And I don’t understand the “not LSD” reference in the OP. Anyway. Desolation Boulevard - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/13 "2004-08-22T19:49:06Z")
Does “Baker Street” refer to an actual street, or just a generic street by that name? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/14 "2004-08-22T20:03:04Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > :smack: Rereads the OP. _Not_ in the real world. > > Sigh. > > Though I think I got confused by **Legolamb’s** post, where 10th Street is called not fictional, but Penny Lane isn’t. And I don’t understand the “not LSD” reference in the OP. > > Anyway. > > Desolation Boulevard - Bob Dylan LSD is probably referring to the song “Lake Shore Drive” by Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah, which is about the street of that name which runs along the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/15 "2004-08-22T20:45:18Z")
I have no idea if any of these are real streets, though I imagine somewhere there’s a street named each of these things. Hell, in Ithaca you can find Penny Lane, Lois Lane, Sesame Street, and Della Street. I am not kidding. Highway 61 - Bob Dylan Cypress Avenue - Van Morrison 10th Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/16 "2004-08-22T22:07:43Z")
“Lover’s Lane” in the song “Lover’s Lane” by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. I didn’t think it was an original composition but according to AMG it is. \*Broadway really ain’t quite the same Since you and I found Lover’s Lane. \* ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/17 "2004-08-22T22:16:43Z")
Primrose Lane - Jerry Wallace with the Jewels. It was very big in the 1950s. In the '60s it even became the theme song of a short-lived television series starring Henry Fonda. And yes, it really was Jerry Wallace **with** the Jewels, not **and** the Jewels. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/18 "2004-08-22T22:19:01Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Does “Baker Street” refer to an actual street, or just a generic street by that name? Yup: Baker Street’s real all right. I worked above the tube station for 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/19 "2004-08-22T22:19:51Z")
No-Where land. Inhabited by sitting No-Where Men, at least one, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984/20 "2004-08-22T22:50:14Z")
Shakin’ Street It’s got that beat Shakin’ Street Where all the kids meet The MC5. I doubt very much there’s a real Shakin’ Street. So now there’s a place for the kids to hang out, anyway. Besides “The Valley of the Malls” from the Fountains of Wayne song. And the Van Morrison song is “Cyprus Avenue,” which is very much a real street in Belfast near where Van grew up. Pictures and information are [here](http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/glossary/cyprus.html). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-streets-etc-mentioned-in-songs/260984.md?page=2)