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.
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:
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.
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.