# Meet me at the corner of \_\_\_\_\_\_ &\_\_\_\_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315 "2008-01-21T00:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/41 "2008-01-21T16:12:32Z")
Meet me at the corner of Circle and Oval Street. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/42 "2008-01-21T16:26:57Z")
[Amos & Andy in Lakewood, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-20,RNWE:en&q=amos+%26+andy,+lakewood,+ca&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl) [Mason & Dixon Line in Sacramento, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-20,RNWE:en&q=mason+%26+dixon+line,+sacramento,+ca&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/43 "2008-01-21T16:30:32Z")
Walk and Don’t Walk. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/44 "2008-01-21T17:17:08Z")
[Bluff Lake, Bluff Lake and Bluff Lake](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=bluff+lake+road+and+w.+bluff+lake+road,+danbury,+wi&sll=37.421214,-122.082288&sspn=0.00772,0.014462&ie=UTF8&ll=45.959295,-92.488146&spn=0.006757,0.014462&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0). This map doesn’t do it justice, but I keep forgetting to take a photo of the road sign pole, with all three signs indicating Bluff Lake Road. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/45 "2008-01-21T17:44:51Z")
Grinn & Barrett, 45069 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/46 "2008-01-21T17:58:18Z")
I’m always amused by the intersection of Hollywood and Broadway in Chicago. Once I lived at the corner of 171st and 171st. That was \*not \*amusing - people just can’t grok it when you give them directions to a place like that. To top it off, I had a phone number in the pattern 112-1111; everyone I met thought I was trying to blow them off. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/47 "2008-01-21T18:18:27Z")
Imperial & Walker. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/48 "2008-01-21T18:45:05Z")
[Jane and St. Clair](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/barenaked+ladies/jane_20013377.html). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/49 "2008-01-21T19:42:36Z")
[Howard and Beale](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/trailers-screenplay-E10932-310) (in [downtown San Francisco](http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result.php?q1=howard+and+beale%2C+san+francisco%2C+ca)) ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/50 "2008-01-21T20:41:10Z")
Jamacha Rd. and Jamacha Blvd. in [San Diego](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Jamacha+blvd&sll=32.71319,-117.036017&sspn=0.031848,0.033603&ie=UTF8&ll=32.706061,-116.989288&spn=0.0637,0.067205&z=14&om=0) ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/51 "2008-01-21T21:11:45Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] [Bluff Lake, Bluff Lake and Bluff Lake](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=bluff+lake+road+and+w.+bluff+lake+road,+danbury,+wi&sll=37.421214,-122.082288&sspn=0.00772,0.014462&ie=UTF8&ll=45.959295,-92.488146&spn=0.006757,0.014462&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0). This map doesn’t do it justice, but I keep forgetting to take a photo of the road sign pole, with all three signs indicating Bluff Lake Road. [/QUOTE] That’s idiotic to the extreme. They are all roads, as well, and while one is West, the others aren’t East. What do the locals refer to these roads as when they need to differentiate them? Or is there really no reason to point anyone out that way (i.e., nothing but undeveloped land)? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/52 "2008-01-21T22:29:22Z")
You could meet me where [Lafayette Avenue; Bennett Road; West Palisade Avenue & Tenafly Road](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=106+W+Palisade+Ave%3B+Englewood+NJ&sll=40.960197,-73.981247&sspn=0.344304,0.559616&ie=UTF8&ll=40.8965,-73.97893&spn=0.01077,0.017488&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0) all intersect. It’s a big monument in the middle of a traffic circle ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/53 "2008-01-22T00:47:48Z")
Woodrow and Wilson (Wilson, NC) [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=&city=&state=&zipcode=27894](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=&city=&state=&zipcode=27894) and just southwest of that is Chicken Drive. Barbecue Street was proposed to intersect it but it was Floyded by 8 feet of water in the Hurricane before being built. [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=&city=&state=&zipcode=27894](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=&city=&state=&zipcode=27894) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/54 "2008-01-22T01:04:06Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] That’s idiotic to the extreme. They are all roads, as well, and while one is West, the others aren’t East. What do the locals refer to these roads as when they need to differentiate them? Or is there really no reason to point anyone out that way (i.e., nothing but undeveloped land)? [/QUOTE] What I found worse were those streets in developed cites (D.C., I’m pointing at you!) where a road is named all along it’s length. But - it has lacunae while going through the city. There’s no separate name for any of the sections, so 31[sup]st[/sup], forex, had these huge gaps that no one warns you about. And so some poor schlub (Yours truly) sees the road his sister is living on, or so he thinks, and turns on to it a little early… and ends up with an hour long tour of one of the few cities in North America deliberately designed to avoid a rectangular grid. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/55 "2008-01-22T01:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=postcards] [Clinton and Bush Streets](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=clinton+and+bush+brooklyn+ny&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.200193,59.414063&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=17&om=0) [/QUOTE] Go north on Clinton for a mile and you’ll hit President Street. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/56 "2008-01-22T01:40:02Z")
It feels like it’s 50 below, so how’s about [Portage and Main](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_and_Main) ? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/57 "2008-01-22T01:41:44Z")
What happens if you go south on Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/58 "2008-01-22T02:01:36Z")
\>Peachtree and Peachtree (Atlanta) Drewbert, this is confusing, because there are four such intersections within one block, or at least there were years ago. How about Main and Main, in Houston, Texas? There’s only one such intersection there. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/59 "2008-01-22T11:11:38Z")
[ul] [li] **Pico and Alvarado** , where the damned electrician _still_ hasn’t shown up![/li][li] **Dude and Catastrophe** , where there’s always enough spare change for a hell of good dinner out.[/li][li] **Church and Turing and McCarthy** , which is only a Y-junction if you look at it upside-down.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315/60 "2008-01-22T15:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=commasense] Bush Street and Burritt Street. A real-life address that meets the criterion of #B in the OP. Anyone recognize it? [/QUOTE] No one remembers what important event happened at Bush and Burritt? Hint: it’s in San Francisco. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-me-at-the-corner-of-______-______/434315.md?page=4)