# Las Pulgas Road, and other bizarre street names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090 "2006-06-25T15:27:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/21 "2006-06-25T21:04:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Avenue Road in Toronto. [/QUOTE] I’ve been told there is also Road Avenue in Toronto, but that was a long time ago. 'Round these parts, we have Third Street Road and Seventh Street Road. Having grown up here, I never saw these as odd, just descriptors, as both roads become city streets downtown. We also have Penile Road (which runs off of Old New Cut Road), which goes through a part of the county called Penile. You have to have a sense of humor to live here. Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/22 "2006-06-25T21:05:00Z")
There’s [Zzyzx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California) Road outside Las Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/23 "2006-06-25T21:14:56Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] And Columbus, Ohio has Lane Avenue. [/QUOTE] And Lane Road. Not to mention that you can tell somebody to go down Godown Road. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/24 "2006-06-25T21:16:16Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Dead Cat Alley Woodland, California [/QUOTE] If it wasn’t in California, I swear I’d move there. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/25 "2006-06-25T21:43:57Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] And Lane Road. Not to mention that you can tell somebody to go down Godown Road. [/QUOTE] Isn’t a godown a kind of shipping warehouse, such as you might find by a major river? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/26 "2006-06-25T22:06:10Z")
In Rockmart, GA there’s Hammertime Rd. (named in honor of MC Hammer and, no, he’s not from there) and Superdeluxe Hwy (because it’s very nicely paved). On a recent trip through western South Carolina, we passed Booger Branch Rd. Who wants to live there? ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/27 "2006-06-25T22:40:55Z")
Not a road but a village in England called Ugley. What was really funny as we drove through was the sign on the local Women’s Institute - normally they say “Littlewood Women’s Institute” but this one said “The Women’s Institute of Ugley.” I guess the regular way round could be misconstrued! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/28 "2006-06-25T22:43:05Z")
[QUOTE=soulmurk] [Jump Off Joe Road](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=3290+East+Jump+Off+Joe+Road&city=valley&state=wa&zipcode=) in Valley, Washington, which takes you, not surprisingly, to the oddly named Jumpoff Joe Lake. [/QUOTE] There’s Jumpoff Joe Creek in Southern Oregon. > [@](#): > > Jumpoff Joe Creek derives its names from an event in 1828. A local trapping party camped along the creek when member Joe Mcloughlin arrived after dark and fell from a cliff nearby. Mcloughlin received severe injuries from the fall and the moment later became the name of the adjacent waterway. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/29 "2006-06-25T23:01:56Z")
On the air force base here, there’s a Kuter Street (named after [this fella](http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/kuter.html)). Don’t know if any live on it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/30 "2006-06-25T23:08:54Z")
[QUOTE=Hokkaido Brit] What was really funny as we drove through was the sign on the local Women’s Institute - normally they say “Littlewood Women’s Institute” but this one said “The Women’s Institute of Ugley.” [/QUOTE] Actually it _was_ the “Ugley Women’s Institute” until a few years ago. I remember a news story that they had to get permission from the national WI to change it. If we’re going to move on to strange village names, then Six Mile Bottom, in Cambridgeshire, heads my list of places I’m glad I don’t live in. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/31 "2006-06-25T23:17:04Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] There’s Jumpoff Joe Creek in Southern Oregon. [/QUOTE] Curious, that. Maybe ole Joe got around and wasn’t the epitome of grace? ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/32 "2006-06-25T23:31:15Z")
Here in Kansas City, the roads are named with numbers, starting at the river and getting larger as you go south. There’s a street, then a terrace, then a street, then a terrace (so 17th Street, then 17th Terrace, then 18th Street, etc), until, at one point, you get to Terrace Street. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/33 "2006-06-26T00:12:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mirror Image egamI rorriM] Here in Kansas City, the roads are named with numbers, starting at the river and getting larger as you go south. There’s a street, then a terrace, then a street, then a terrace (so 17th Street, then 17th Terrace, then 18th Street, etc), until, at one point, you get to Terrace Street. [/QUOTE] Doesn’t Terrace Street run perpendicular to the numbers? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/34 "2006-06-26T00:17:19Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] And Columbus, Ohio has Lane Avenue. [/QUOTE] Columbus, OH also has Gay Street. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/35 "2006-06-26T01:00:20Z")
In California there are some unique exits off of the I-5 in the central valley First off somewhere between Bakersfield and Freso is 7th Standard Road. There is no exit for 6th abnormal Avenue. 😃 Up near Red Bluff are two exits that by themselves don’t mean much, but together crack me up for some reason. Balls Ferry and Hooker Creek Road. I’m guessing you take the Balls Ferry across Hooker Creek. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/36 "2006-06-26T01:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Then there’s [this corner](http://www.jokeboy.net/pictures/seaman_cumming.jpg) in Brooklyn, which probably _should_ be in the Village. [/QUOTE] Nitpick: this corner is in Inwood, Manhattan, not in Brooklyn. I’ve been to it. And I thought you were going to mention Gay St. in Greenwich Village - named well before the Stonewall Inn set up shop… ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/37 "2006-06-26T02:06:32Z")
We have the intersection of Antonio and Banderas! On Hilton Head Island, SC, there is a Burned Church Road. Yikes… Zzyzx wass already mentioned… My friends in Glenwood Springs, CO, lived off of No Name Road. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/38 "2006-06-26T02:07:35Z")
Oh, and how could I forget El Cajon (the coffin) and Los Banos (the toilets)? Both cities in California. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/39 "2006-06-26T02:30:12Z")
[QUOTE=Mirror Image egamI rorriM] Here in Kansas City, the roads are named with numbers, starting at the river and getting larger as you go south. There’s a street, then a terrace, then a street, then a terrace (so 17th Street, then 17th Terrace, then 18th Street, etc), until, at one point, you get to Terrace Street. [/QUOTE] As long as we’re in the Kansas City area, there’s Black Bob Road in Olathe. And on Kansas Hwy 10 between KC and Lawrence there is an exit for Kill Creek Road. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/40 "2006-06-26T02:32:39Z")
And as you tool north up Highway 6 in the Bruce Peninsula, you come to a [crossroads](http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=44.951466,-81.280932&spn=0.024905,0.026178&t=h&om=1). One side is Spry Road, the other is Cemetery Road. “I don’t know, dear, which one do _you_ want to take?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090.md?page=3)