I don’t know about Disk Drive but Disc Drive in Scotts Valley, CA, is kinda famous.
Looks like nobody’s posted this one yet. Flagstaff, AZ.
Though not bizarre, my brother’s girlfriend (in college days) lived on Lois Lane.
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”.
Why are we getting ads for “Fishy Vaginal Odor?” Something to do with Pyoo-allup and Sequim, perhaps?
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
I was just doing my job when I came across a business on Newby Street.
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).
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
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…
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Oooh, Vivaaaa Las Pulgas!
Vivaaaaaa Las Pulgas!
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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
Bangalore has an Avenue Road, too.
If we’re going with fictional, I’ve always been partial to road names in Ankh-Morpork:
Cockbill Street
Easy Street
Cheap Street
Street of Small Gods
Cutalong Alley
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
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!
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.
Bust Me Gall Hill and Break Me Neck Hill. Tasmania’s a tough place…
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.
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.
In Oregon, there is a Dead Indian Highway.
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…