# 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:** 5
**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 28, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/81 "2006-06-28T01:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] I’ve heard of Disk Drive and Lois Lane but don’t know locales. [/QUOTE] I don’t know about Disk Drive but [Disc Drive in Scotts Valley, CA, is kinda famous](http://www.seagate.com/contact/newsroom/prcontacts/). ---
**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 28, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/82 "2006-06-28T04:08:36Z")
Looks like nobody’s posted [this one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/onemillion/156476342/) yet. Flagstaff, AZ. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/83 "2006-06-28T17:55:02Z")
Though not bizarre, my brother’s girlfriend (in college days) lived on Lois Lane. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/84 "2006-06-28T18:32:39Z")
I always do a double-take when I see “Prospect Street”. I don’t speak Russian but I’ve heard of so many Russian thoroughfares named “Xxxxx Prospekt” that I automatically rename Prospect Street “Street Street”. ---
**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 28, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/85 "2006-06-28T18:44:23Z")
Why are we getting ads for “Fishy Vaginal Odor?” Something to do with Pyoo-allup and Sequim, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/86 "2006-06-28T18:46:51Z")
Here in Carson City, NV, we have “Hells Bells Road.” We also have a “Gay Circle.” In Washoe Valley, right north of me, there’s “Lonesome Polecat Road.” I’m dead serious here. I live on “Long Street,” which always kind of amused me. Boyfriend always writes that down with pride. We have a “Bonanza Drive,” which I always found funny because it really is a tribute to the show. We also have a “Kelvin Road,” which I like, but most people don’t get the reference. Where I lived in Pennsylvania, there was a development called “Flying Hills” that, just like the development’s name, had the dumbest street names EVER. The only one I can recall off the top of my head is “Burning Bush Lane.” Although, taken out of context and not referring to the Bible, that’s actually a cool name. ~Tasha ---
**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:** [August 29, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/87 "2006-08-29T21:52:37Z")
I was just doing my job when I came across a business on [Newby Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3718+east+newby+street,+nampa,+id&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=A). ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/88 "2006-08-29T22:17:38Z")
On Jay Leno’s Headlines a few weeks ago he showed a real estate ad for a house on Pig Turd Alley (in Amador City, CA). ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/89 "2006-08-29T22:30:06Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] I live on “Long Street,” which always kind of amused me. Boyfriend always writes that down with pride. [/QUOTE] Thing is, roads like that are in a real tradition. I live on The Street, and nearby there’s Top Street, Main Road, The Street, School Lane, Church Lane. Anything else is modern rubbish 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/90 "2006-08-30T01:08:41Z")
Re: “Las Pulgas” … you just **know** some early settler of La California, when his trail blazing got to that general area, did _not_ have a good time… [elvis] _Oooh, Vivaaaa Las Pulgas! Vivaaaaaa Las Pulgas!_ [/elvis] ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/91 "2006-08-30T03:52:37Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] That’s actually not between Bakersfield and Fresno, it’s still in Bakersfield. Our main post office is on 7th Standard Road. Anywho, if I remember correctly, the naming of that road goes back to WW2 and it was named by the military. There’s no accounting for military naming. 😉 My favorite roads are also along the 5, somewhere past Peasoup Andersons (I think): **Big Panoche Road and Little Panoche Road**. This of course causes my friends and I to have discussions like this: “So, um, Ryan, do you want to go down on Big Panoche or Little Panoche?” “You know, Angel, there are pros and cons to both.” “Continue.” “Well, I mean, Big Panoche has been had much more down it, ya know? Like, there’s more to do and see.” “Right, but honestly, do you really want to go down Panoche that has had that many people in it?” “Well, that was my next point. Little Panoche has less to do and see, but there’s always that nice, comfy, close feeling that Little Panoche gives ya. It feels good, lemme tell ya.” [/QUOTE] First off thanks for the info on 7th Standard Road. I had always wondered about that. Along with the Panoche, if you take hiway 166 from the Central Valley to Santa Maria, you travel through the twin metropolis of Cuyama, and New Cuyama. one of them has a school, and IIRC the other has a gas station. That is damn near it. I’m sure we could have a great conversation as to where you sould visit, [Cuyama, or New Cuyama](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?addtohistory=&address=&city=New%20Cuyama&state=CA&zipcode=93254&country=US&geodiff=1) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/92 "2006-08-30T04:23:45Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Philly has Street Road, which I’ve always been very fond of. [/QUOTE] Bangalore has an Avenue Road, too. If we’re going with fictional, I’ve always been partial to road names in [Ankh-Morpork](http://en.wikipikida.org/Ankh-Morpork): Cockbill Street Easy Street Cheap Street Street of Small Gods Cutalong Alley ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/93 "2006-08-30T05:27:44Z")
In Durham, NH there’s a road called Small Paul Road. I’ve always wondered if it was named by Paul’s mom…or his bitter ex-wife 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/94 "2006-08-30T06:32:29Z")
The first time Hubby took me to meet his parents, we drove around Sequim (WA) a bit. When we passed Chicken Coop road, I laughed. When we turned down Kitchen-Dick road, I almost peed my pants! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/95 "2006-08-30T08:37:49Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Oh, and how could I forget El Cajon (the coffin) and Los Banos (the toilets)? Both cities in California. [/QUOTE] Not coffin: drawer as in desk. And Los Baños is baths; probably a river there has some nice meanders with pools. People were bathing waaaaaay before WCs got invented. OTOH, Salsipuedes does mean “get out if you can”. The place where I worked in Costa Rica had a “Cuesta de los Lamentos”: “painful uphill”. They claim it was a bitch to build. The corporation that owns the place think it’s unacceptable for the tourists but can’t get the workers to call it prettier names. I’ve known other Cuestas de los Lamentos; in Spain it’s a commonish name for the extra-steep street that goes more directly to the foot of a hill, through a village, to the fortification on top of the hill. ---
**Author:** ![What\_s\_That\_Smell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3bc359/32.png) [@What\_s\_That\_Smell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_s_That_Smell)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/96 "2006-08-30T09:11:09Z")
[Bust Me Gall Hill and Break Me Neck Hill.](http://www.discovertasmania.com.au/home/tasmedia_index.cfm?level1=fact%20file&level2=content&contentid=471) Tasmania’s a tough place… ---
**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:** [August 30, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/97 "2006-08-30T13:43:50Z")
And I just remembered one in Ontario: between Apsley and Coe Hill, just off County Road 620, there is **Trotter-Oitment Road**. Yes, “Oitment” with no N; it still sounds like something you would heal pigs with. I presume they were the family names of the first two farms on the 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:** [August 30, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/98 "2006-08-30T13:46:59Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Not coffin: drawer as in desk. And Los Baños is baths; probably a river there has some nice meanders with pools. People were bathing waaaaaay before WCs got invented. OTOH, Salsipuedes does mean “get out if you can”. [/QUOTE] Los Baños has an enyay? Now it makes a lot more sense. When we drove through there on the way back from Yosemite once (we stopped for refreshments), I don’t remember seeing the enyay on the sign. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/99 "2006-08-30T13:51:13Z")
In Oregon, there is a Dead Indian Highway. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090/100 "2006-08-30T21:35:36Z")
Not as good as some of these, but my grandmother lives on West South St. I knew someone would say Zzyxx Rd before I got here…grumble… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-pulgas-road-and-other-bizarre-street-names/362090.md?page=6)