# More bizarre street names
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 30, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600 "2007-10-30T18:07:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/1 "2007-10-30T18:07:55Z")
An off-shoot of [this year old thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=377148&highlight=disc+drive).
I just processed a document on behalf of a company on [Rabbit Hash Road](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Rabbit+Hash+Rd+SE,+Elizabeth,+Harrison,+Indiana+47117,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.019527,74.091797&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,38.039910,-85.962560&z=13&iwloc=addr&om=1). That’s not the only such road, either; there are at least [two](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Rabbit+Hash+Rd,+Union,+Boone,+Kentucky+41091,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.019527,74.091797&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,38.932500,-84.809980&z=14&iwloc=addr&om=1) [more](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Rabbit+Hash+Rd,+Fruitland+Park,+Lake,+Florida+34731,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.019527,74.091797&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=0,28.853450,-81.889000&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1)!
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### Author:  [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/2 "2007-10-30T19:06:32Z")
In North or South Carolina (can’t remember which) there is a Gulf War Ln.
A block from where I grew up, Manly intersected Tinkerbell. That was good for a laugh through adolescence.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/3 "2007-10-30T19:08:32Z")
Down in New Jersey there’s a **Squankum Yellow Brook Road**.
I keep expecting dancing Munchkins to come out and tell you to “Follow the Yellow Brook Road”.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/4 "2007-10-30T19:14:38Z")
I laghed out loud last night when Colbert was talking about what he believed must have been the last USA Today infographic. He thought that because the topic was so stupid that the writers must have thrown themselves from the building after finishing it. The topic: how many US streets are named after candy. Peppermint: 95.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/5 "2007-10-30T19:14:47Z")
[Tuttle Ave](http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=27.298771,-82.514266&spn=0.002822,0.004748&z=18&om=1) in Sarasota, FL, changes into Swift Road. Swift =\> Tuttle. Neither of these are named after the discoverer of the Swift-Tuttle comet.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/6 "2007-10-30T19:18:07Z")
There’s a brewery here in SF at [2nd & DE BOOM!](http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.782846,-122.392746&spn=0.001302,0.002296&z=19&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.782365,-122.392715&cbp=1,437.17444042350934,,3,-0.1932041424333701)
There’s alos [Lois Ln](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=lois+ln&sll=37.747711,-122.399797&sspn=0.041671,0.073471&ie=UTF8&ll=37.713579,-122.398861&spn=0.001303,0.002296&z=19&om=1), but I don;t think that’s all that weird. I seem to remember a thread (possibly here) detailed a few dozen Lois Lanes around the world.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/7 "2007-10-30T19:20:46Z")
Oh, and there’s [Hegenberger, Hegenberger, and Hegenberger](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=hegenberger&sll=37.737598,-122.198868&sspn=0.083353,0.146942&ie=UTF8&ll=37.735579,-122.196368&spn=0.00521,0.009184&z=17&om=1).
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/8 "2007-10-30T19:25:00Z")
There’s a [Random St.](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Random+St.,+Etobicoke,+ON&sll=43.659505,-79.543827&sspn=0.006644,0.014591&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659505,-79.543827&spn=0.006644,0.014591&z=16&om=1) in Toronto, ON.
I’ve no idea where it goes.
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/9 "2007-10-30T19:26:12Z")
Similarly (to Troy McLure’s post), I give you
[Wasson &Wasson](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=hegenberger&sll=37.737598,-122.198868&sspn=0.083353,0.146942&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=44.85364,-92.60788&spn=0.00448,0.009495&z=17)
My brother used to live there.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/10 "2007-10-30T19:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF]
Oh, and there’s [Hegenberger, Hegenberger, and Hegenberger](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=hegenberger&sll=37.737598,-122.198868&sspn=0.083353,0.146942&ie=UTF8&ll=37.735579,-122.196368&spn=0.00521,0.009184&z=17&om=1).
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You have to wonder if they were playing some pranks when naming the roads around [here](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=53.857874,-1.604154&spn=0.004493,0.01133&z=17&om=1).
One road near me is simply called ‘California’. Not ‘California Road’, ‘California Drive’, nothing. Just California. 😕
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/11 "2007-10-30T19:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
There’s a [Random St.](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Random+St.,+Etobicoke,+ON&sll=43.659505,-79.543827&sspn=0.006644,0.014591&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659505,-79.543827&spn=0.006644,0.014591&z=16&om=1) in Toronto, ON.
I’ve no idea where it goes.
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:eek: I think my old boss used to live on that corner…
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/12 "2007-10-30T19:55:25Z")
Several _Star Trek:TNG_ themed streets here.
[Warp Drive.](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Warp+Dr,+Turlock,+CA+95380,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title)
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/13 "2007-10-30T19:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
You have to wonder if they were playing some pranks when naming the roads around [here](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=53.857874,-1.604154&spn=0.004493,0.01133&z=17&om=1).
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What a bunch of assholes. I mean, really.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/14 "2007-10-30T20:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
You have to wonder if they were playing some pranks when naming the roads around [here](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=53.857874,-1.604154&spn=0.004493,0.01133&z=17&om=1).
One road near me is simply called ‘California’. Not ‘California Road’, ‘California Drive’, nothing. Just California. 😕
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Jebus, the postman must have bloody nightmares delivering there
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/15 "2007-10-30T20:04:10Z")
Do I actually get to be first to mention [Zzyzx Rd?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California) It always comes up in these threads but I always get beaten to it.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/16 "2007-10-30T20:04:56Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
Jebus, the postman must have bloody nightmares delivering there
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Imagine the fun you can have getting a taxi to pick you up _from_ there! It’s easiest to walk to the pub and book it there.
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### Author:  [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/17 "2007-10-30T20:43:42Z")
Oh the wonderful Holt Park estate.
I used to live just down the road, and I remember it before they built that estate.
I even remember it when it was a farm, the farm building is still there, its now a pub. The farm building dates back to something around 1600 but the site is much older than that.
Farrar Lane runs down the side of the old field system, and leads to the site of the Roman Fort at Adel. They found some Roman artifacts in the old earth banks of Farrar lane, must have been forty years ago I guess.
If you look around that google map you will find Farrar Lane, which is an extremely old route, but the planners cut it apart. You can still see the old line of the road though, it goes up to the junction of Otley Old Road and Tinshill lane, it used to have high earth banks, the road sunk down over a couple of thousand years of use - you can see it much better if you use the hybrid view.
The whole Holt Park estate and the fields at the the Tinshill lane top were all part of the old farm.
The playing fields at the side used to be part of the farm, there used to be the remains of drystone walls running between some of the football pitches.
Ah, here it is,
[http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20031010\_71126956](http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20031010_71126956)
By heck, that brings back a few memories, used to play in the old dovecote when the farm was shut down and left derelict.
I can see a lot of relatively new housing around there, especially in the Haven Croft area, this part was also part of the grounds of a minor stately house, right next to Cookridge hospital - used to play in those woods a huge amount, I remember them tearing the remains of the big house down back in the early 1960’s
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/18 "2007-10-30T20:50:09Z")
There is a road called [Dirt Road](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Dirt+Rd,+Culpeper,+Culpeper,+Virginia+22701,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.249013,86.835938&ie=UTF8&cd=3&geocode=0,38.433050,-78.027120&ll=38.434161,-78.027112&spn=0.007009,0.0106&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1) near Culpeper, VA. And it really is dirt. For now.
And then there’s the Apple HQ at [1 Infinite Loop](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=1+infinite+loop&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.249013,86.835938&ie=UTF8&ll=37.33287,-122.030725&spn=0.007115,0.0106&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1) That’s the best thing Apple has ever done. 😛_ducks_
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/19 "2007-10-30T20:54:32Z")
By 'eck, **casdave** …
Yes, some of that sounds very familiar. Not the 1960s bits, though 😛
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/20 "2007-10-30T21:00:09Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
One road near me is simply called ‘California’. Not ‘California Road’, ‘California Drive’, nothing. Just California.
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One of my sisters used to live off Ferry Landing in Sugar Land, TX; the nearest actual Ferry Landing is some 70 miles away in Galveston.
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