# Interesting/Clever Street and Subdivision Names! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831 "2010-01-21T13:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831/141 "2017-08-18T14:29:07Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > In Boston’s Back Bay the n-s grid streets running west from the Boston Public Gardens are alphabetical, thru “H”" > ARLINGTON > BERKELY > CLARENDON > DARTMOUTH > EXETER > FAIRFIELD > GLOUCESTER > HEREFORD > > MASSACHUSETTS AVE > > on the way to Fenway Park Actually, it continues beyond Mass Ave with Ipswich, Jersey (partially renamed Yawkey Way at Fenway Park) and Kilmarnock. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831/142 "2017-08-18T22:20:26Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Actually, it continues beyond Mass Ave with Ipswich, Jersey (partially renamed Yawkey Way at Fenway Park) and Kilmarnock. Thanks, I never realized that during my 15 years working, schooling, recreating, driving there, including one living there, at the top of Beacon Hill. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831/143 "2017-08-19T01:08:57Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > In Boston’s Back Bay the n-s grid streets running west from the Boston Public Gardens are alphabetical, thru “H”" > ARLINGTON > BERKELY > CLARENDON > DARTMOUTH > EXETER > FAIRFIELD > GLOUCESTER > HEREFORD > > MASSACHUSETTS AVE > > on the way to Fenway Park Margate, NJ is like that - A - W streets, & then a few more. Don’t know why those aren’t X, Y, & Z’s. The other night, we passed Jane Ln & turned onto Rhoads Rd. There’s also a major artery Street Rd in the area. When she was in college, my sister lived at the intersection of Shirley St & Shirley St. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831/144 "2019-12-17T20:27:58Z")
Bumping this thread to report about a recent discovery. I don’t live there, but found this one while persuing a hobby: In Greenville SC, there’s a new street (built just this year) named **Parallel Parkway**. The “Parallel” comes from it being parallel to an existing arterial, but I’m sure there was a punster involved who made it a “Parkway”. A couple others that occured to me: When they first built the Rose Garden (arena, now the Moda Center) in Portland, there was a short street there named Dribble Drive (Dribble Drive Motion is a basketall offense). I can’t find it on Googlemaps, so likely it’s been renamed. Probably it’s the one now called Drexler Dr, named after Clyde Drexler. I’ve also seen a couple Line Drives, one in a community built around a golf course, and I forget where the other one was, but I think near a baseball field. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831/145 "2019-12-18T04:05:19Z")
Down in the wilds of South St. Louis there is a “Shenandoah Street”, and the next street south is named “Lansdowne Street”. What makes this interesting, and more than a coincidence, was that the USS Shenandoah was a Navy dirigible, and while being commanded by Commander Zachary Lansdowne, crashed during a line squall while over Ohio back in the 1920’s with a serious loss of life. I wonder how many folks living in that neighborhood have any idea of the history between those two names. BTW, these two streets may be avenues - I don’t exactly remember. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-clever-street-and-subdivision-names/525831.md?page=7)