Interesting/Clever Street and Subdivision Names!

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@Mtgman

Somebody is being blasphemous. Yahweh is the ancient Hebrew name of God. It’s considered sacred and is never written out fully to keep people from using it in vain.

Modesto, Ca., has a Hashem Dr. A residential side-street mostly.

@dhkendall

There is an Easy St. here in my city …

Likewise in Mountain View, Ca. It’s a small residential side-street.

Some years ago, I came across a residential subdivision in the still-being-built stage in Coalinga, Ca., containing one street named Halliburton Av. – I wondered if there was something behind that. More recently, I haven’t been able to find it again. Either the name got changed or I’m mis-remembering which subdivision it’s in.

@WarmNPrickly

The most interesting street name I can think of is no doubt unintentional. The street is Flicker. This doesn’t seem particularly interesting, except that in street sign font, if you only get a quick glance the L and the I can combine into one word. It’s just enough to cause a massive doubletake every time I see it.

A nearby community to where I live has a whole subdivision full of streets with bird names, this being one of them. Exactly the same remark applies here.

@salinqmind

Ironic, since the homes of all the wild critters living there have been bulldozed so these palaces could be erected.

That’s utterly typical. Bulldoze an area to develop it, and then name the streets, parks, schools, housing developments, shopping centers, etc., after the things that got bulldozed. Los Osos, Ca. bulldozed a grove of eucalyptus trees, famous for the massive flocks of monarch butterflies that nested there, to build a school. They named it Monarch Grove Elementary School, of course. So that makes it all okay! (Actually, it was just a relatively small portion of a much larger grove that they dozed, so there’s plenty left.)

@Nava

@Colibri

There’s a street in a rather bad neighborhood here in Panama that is known as “Salsipuedes,” that is, “Get out if you can.”

There’s another one by the same name in Pamplona; Google turned up others in Oviedo, Córdoba (Spain, not Argentina), Madrid, Buenos Aires… it sure seems like a popular name.

Likwise, a thoroughfare in Santa Barbara, Ca. named Salsipuedes St. Story goes, in the early days of Santa Barbara the area tended to get flooded in the winter and the street became impassable.

@That_Don_Guy

At one time or another, both [streets named Marine World Parkway in Redwood City and Vallejo] were near the locations of amusement parks named Marine World; it was originally near where the Oracle headquarters is now, but when it was expanded to include non-marine life, it was considered too small, so it moved to Vallejo, where, eventually, they added thrill rides, and was eventually bought by Six Flags, which renamed it Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

That’s not actually quite the story. The park had always been named “Marine World / Africa USA”. They always had dolphin and orca shows, sea lions, elephants, tigers, parrots, and such. They raised their tiger to be a big pussycat. Eventually they lost their lease at the Redwood City property and had to move. Apparently the property owner decided that condo developments or industrial campuses or something would make them more money there. (I know all this because I had a bit of an inside track there, back in the day.)

ETA: Now, you can’t just jack up all those tanks, plumbing infrastructure, concrete stadiums, etc., and truck them on up to Vallejo. So the park sat there, abandoned, for some years before anything more was done with the property. Meanwhile, the new park was build ab initio in Vallejo.

The new-ish Six Flags park with all the wild roller coasters is actually approximately across the street from the Vallejo Marine World site. I don’t really know much about the transfer to Six Flags and the timelines of that – that all came later.