# More bizarre street names **URL:** \ **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:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/81 "2007-11-24T11:04:42Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Hey, teacher’s schools used to be called “Normal” in Spain too! But the street would be “Calle de la Normal” (which sounds like “normal woman street” if you don’t know better), not “Calle Normal” (“normal street”). [/QUOTE] “Perdon, señor, por donde queda La Calle de La Loca…o sea, de mi suegra…?” ---
**Author:** ![InLucemEdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@InLucemEdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLucemEdita)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/82 "2007-11-24T23:06:28Z")
[QUOTE=3acresandatruck] Of course, it makes for much more fun (and stolen street signs) when [Normal and High](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=E+Normal+Ave+%26+S+High+St,+Kirksville,+MO+63501,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title) Streets intersect right on the edge of campus. I used to pass this intersection several times daily. [/QUOTE] I’ll see your Normal and High, and raise you [Pleasant and High](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Lake+Geneva,+WI&ie=UTF8&ll=42.598283,-88.445035&spn=0.001479,0.002025&z=19&iwloc=addr&om=1) . ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/83 "2007-11-26T11:19:51Z")
[Bloody Gulch Road, Dixon IL](http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc3036.php) ---
**Author:** ![Barrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/84 "2007-11-26T16:40:14Z")
My local favourite is [The Land of Green Ginger](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=l&ie=UTF8&ll=53.743261,-0.33269&spn=0.00349,0.011759&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1). It’s a very old name, and there’s no certainty about its origins, although it’s quite likely that it was named after something to do with the spice trade, which was carried out in that neighbourhood. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/85 "2007-11-26T18:41:44Z")
In downtown L.A. there’s a short street called New High Street. Since the the phrase “High Street” to mean just the principal street of a town is pretty much unknown in the U.S., I always wondered why they decided to name it that. Besides, without knowing what a High Street traditionally is, it sounds like it means The Street of Newly Discovered Psychoactive Substances. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/86 "2007-11-26T18:50:47Z")
[Fingerboard Road](http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&addr=198+Fingerboard+Road&csz=10305) in Staten Island has always struck me as a very strange name for a street. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/87 "2007-11-26T21:03:52Z")
I once knew a guy who lived on Darvon Street in Newark, CA. I was at his house one day when there was . . . a drug bust a few houses down. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/88 "2007-11-27T00:17:16Z")
[As see-able on Google Maps!](http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=potter+park+loop,+MT&sll=46.916313,-114.05699&sspn=0.004939,0.005354&ie=UTF8&ll=46.915869,-114.056561&spn=0.00247,0.002677&z=18&om=1) Shortly after I first moved to Missoula, I looked at the maps in the phone book to get myself familiar with town’s actual layout, as opposed to where I thought things were from the few times I’d been here before. I happily found Potter Park Loop, which leads to Hermione Ct and Muggle Ct. (If you use hybrid view or satellite on that link, you’ll mostly see construction, but it’s been built up much more since then. When my parents stayed in a friend’s house in that development last August, it seemed like most of the houses were finished except for the landscaping.) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/89 "2007-11-27T01:54:09Z")
Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate in York, England. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/90 "2007-11-27T12:15:59Z")
[Big Beaver](http://www.birchlerarroyo.com/Clients/troy.htm) has a study going on about it. We also have [696 highway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_696) I remember from Reader’s Digest way back some street names from one area: This Way, That Way (or thatta way). Remarkably perverse. ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Chance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8baadc/32.png) [@Fat\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/91 "2007-11-27T17:19:42Z")
There is the famously haunted (so they say) “Shades of Death Road” in New Jersey. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/92 "2007-11-27T17:52:29Z")
In Sayville, NY (Long Island) there’s a “Beef Bishop Way”. No idea what that’s about. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/93 "2007-11-27T18:40:03Z")
It has become my life ambition to one day live on Popplebottom Road. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600/94 "2007-11-27T20:18:22Z")
My three favorite road names are all ones spotted while driving past. There’s Jones Sausage Road crossing I-40 near Raleigh, NC. Similarly, there’s Pig’s Ear Road, which crosses I-68 somewhere out in western Maryland between Grantsville and Friendsville. Another that catches my eye for some unknown reason is Tony Row Road near Perryopolis, Pennsylvania. I guess it just has a ring to it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bizarre-street-names/424600.md?page=4)