My admiration for hitting on 2 of 4. With the other two you get applause since one of them may have that name only in a song and may go by a different name on the road signs. The other is at least in a Southern city.
I was wondering if anybody would take a stab at these. Thanks for playing along.
Ha, thanks!
I actually have my last CTA pass in my wallet. It was a month pass, so it’s long expired, but no, I have no intention of throwing it away. Because I am a dork.
BTW, the twistiest street in San Francisco (the world?) is not Lombard. It’s actually Vermont, on Potrero Hill. Now you know.
Mulholland is famous for being the actual street, or the main artery, where real movie stars live in the Hollywood Hills. IIRC, we used Mulholland when we were going to Charleton Heston’s house to interview him for Japanese tv. He has his own tennis court. Unfortunately, even 10 years ago, he didn’t want to be filmed walking.
Every other damn street in Atlanta is named Peachtree, and Beale is down the street from my apartment. Other than that, I dunno.
As for the main point of your post…NY’s capital of the world, baby. And 'sides, you know what’s on Rodeo Drive & Pennsylvania Avenue, no?
:eek: Hooker row? (Daffyd walks down to the corner of his street and checks for hookers…) I think more people would think of it as the centre of Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian community…
In Houston, one has to know about Montrose and Westheimer. For several reasons. Not just the shops and restaurants, but also the embodiment of different “scenes.” The Artsy Fartsy Scene, the Club Scene, the Gay Scene, (used to be) the Freak Scene, etc …
In Oklahoma City, mention of different streets will pulll up in one’s mind the predominate population. If I said SW 29th, everyone here would know it’s a mostly Hispanic area. Same way with NE 36th being mostly Black. Britton would pull up images of Redneck Whites, etc … In Edmond, just north of the OKC, Boulevard was once the very well known place for Cruising. Curfews keep that down now.
Streets that hold a greater significance because of the activities, needing no further explanation for locals…
More to the point, if it is to be for a nationally / internationally televised interview / newshow, should you EXPECT further information when a location is just left to speak for itself? Aren’t I losing a great deal if the significance of the location is not explained.
eg: If I was writing a travel article, can I just say
“I went to the strip and had a blast barhopping”
or should I say,
“I went to Oxford Boulevarde, referred to locally as the strip, home to an impressive collection of eclectic clubs and had a blast”
Understandably it is a matter of style, (and also space) but isn’t it reasonable to expect some form of context, when context isn’t immediately apparent to the uninitiated?
New Orleans, LA and Las Vegas are good examples of other cities where we’re expected to know important streets or geographical areas.
I doubt any San Diego street names have special meaning to people outside of San Diego; we have something of a movie and music history but it all pales in comparison to that of LA, except maybe in punk rock (and probably not in that either). Also, San Diegans don’t really identify things with specific streets IME in the way that the businesses on the Strip or on Rodeo Drive are defined by same. Small exceptions can probably be made for Grand Ave and (particularly) Garnet Ave, which define Pacific Beach; the specific vibe is difficult to explain but has to do partly with the stereotypical beach-stoner lifestyle. The other major streets that everyone in San Diego recognize–University, El Cajon, Friars, Balboa, etc.–mostly stretch from one end of the city to the other, and sometimes further; so their importance changes wildly every few miles. University, for example, goes through overwhelmingly gay Hillcrest and increasingly gay North Park and also by (wait for it) the aptly-named College Area, but isn’t defined by any one of those more than the others.
The only Tucson example that comes close (and probably only for people who have spent significant time in Tucson) is 4th Ave, simultaneously the Marijuana, Drunken Homosexuality and Hippie Commerce capital of Arizona. One of my lasting memories of 4th Ave is of a bicycle with a faux license plate on the back that read “4TH AVE” for the plate number, “April 20” for a registration tag, and “License to Chill” in place of a state slogan, parked outside of a gay bar and between two head shops.
I know that Peachtree is the name of every road in Atlanta and I’ve heard of Beale Street, but I’m not familiar with the others.
Seems to me Independence in KC is known as the hooker haven.
Firstly, it’s the most populated city in the US by far, and one of the oldest. That alone counts for a hell of a lot.
Secondly, it’s a major hub for entertainment of all kinds. Massive amounts of art of all kinds–music, theatre, literature, poetry, painting, whatever–comes out of New York. A lot of the rest is based in New York. A disproportionate amount of American sports legend comes from New York. It’s where the European immigrants that have defined our immigrant nation for centuries became Americans. I would contend that New York is the most important and widely-known (in the sense of the Spanish verb conocer; that is, people from other places are generally more likely to know and understand things local to New York than those local to other cities, and to have personally been to or through New York) city in the US outside of DC, and maybe more so than DC.
That’s the first thing I thought of, too.
It is. Everyone calls it “the Strip”. I think it’s actually called Las Vegas Blvd. or something. (Or, what Antinor01 said.)
The irony of my ‘location’ entry has just hit me :smack:
Assuming this has been burning other people’s curiosity, I’ll reveal that Kingston Pike is referred to in Robert Mitchum’s erstwhile famous song from the movie Thunder Road (late 50’s vintage) which includes the line:
“Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike,
Then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike.
He left the road at 90; that’s all there is to say.
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.”
(For the whole song, GO HERE).
Bush Boulevard is in the section of Birmingham AL out toward the Ensley section: western part of town where my aunt and uncle lived when I was little and went to visit them a lot. Watching the blast furnaces at night out their bedroom window in their hilltop apartment is one of my favorite memories. (I can’t blame anybody for not having those associations with Bush Boulevard, but I bet there’s some street like that for almost averybody.)
Yeah, I should have said, “… a fairly famous historical jazz spot.”
Just got back from there a short time ago. Action at the Gem, and The Blue Room, but still too many (for my taste) empty storefronts. ::heavy sigh::