Would it really be so difficult to actually type the name instead of linking to a map that never loads properly for some people (like me!)? This is even more frustrating when everyone then quotes the guy who just posted “there” with a link and comments on the name without ever mentioning the name and again I am left out of a joke, just like all those dammed youtube threads.
Now I’m so frustrated I forgot the name of the road I was going to post.
I guess that tops Wichita’s old intersection of Harry and Fanny (which is no more - some years back the town prudes ganged up and got Fanny [one of a series of streets with women’s names] renamed Greenwood).
Just east of Fanny - er, Greenwood - is Hydraulic, which some folks find weird, but it never bothered me. There’s also a Random Road here - it jogs back and forth.
Perhaps in their travels they can visit Vulcan street (No other god themed street names in the area, I have no idea why it’s vulcan street)
Here’s one I stumbled across in Warsaw in the mid-nineties - Ulica Kubusia Puchatka, couldn’t find anyone to tell me why it was called this but I bet the old apparatchiks didn’t approve.
Those of you concerned with similar street names should view this typical new suburb in Calgary.
Slide around the map some, and check out the nearby neighbourhoods too!
I could have sworn I posted these in the other thread, but since I didn’t… double post!
Dead Broke Street, South Dakota
The oddly named Bow Bottom Trail, Calgary
Redneck Avenue; Little Ferry makes the local news the day after I posted this.
That is too weird.
Just outside Shippensburg, there’s a Temporary Drive. In the four years that I’ve been past it, it’s never become Permanent, despite being paved.
Robin
World’s End Lane in North London runs between Cadogan Gardens and Slade’s Hill
I’m in the process of renting a house in the beautiful Blue Mountains town of Blackheath. There’s a street there called “Inconstant St”. It’s just a regular street, so no idea what they’re on about.
It seems that no one in Johnny L.A.'s original thread ever answered his question:
The (simple) answer is that when the Spanish missionaries were passing through that area they were besieged by fleas.
There were also a few posts about El Cajon (the drawer). It’s a city next to another city called La Mesa (the table). El Cajon is in a low basin, and La Mesa is, well a mesa.
Sometimes bizarre names are not so bizarre when you know the situation. These original Spanish names are certainly better than the fakes ones that they give to streets in modern day housing developments for that “Spanish colonial” feel–lame names like “Camino Bonito,” etc.
Anyway, many big cities have a Normal Street. Seems like a stupid name, but it’s because there used to be “normal schools” on them–they were early versions of teachers’ colleges.
And near Hope, New Jersey (I think) there’s one called Jenny Jump Road, after a local girl named Jenny who jumped to her death off a cliff because an Indian was coming and her father yelled, “Jump, Jenny, jump!”
I vote for SHOVE St. (Woonsocket, RI); what about those long roads in London (UK) that change their names? Like Marylbone Road-which becomes something else, and then something else.
In Saskatoon, Sk, there is a Rusholme Rd and an Avenue P. Neither funny within themselves, but together they make the intersection of *Rusholme & P, * always good for a laugh when you are 12 or so.
How about this? Around here, numbered streets increment from north to south. So where does the county put 2711 South Clark? North of 27th Street!
To make matters worse, Google says 2711 South Clark doesn’t exist; they call it 2711 Jefferson Davis Hwy.
Not so much funny as confusing. The street where my mother lives is Calle de Capuchinos; when it crosses the street on top of it it becomes Cuesta de Capuchinos, and there is an alley coming off the “Calle” which is Callejón de Capuchinos.
I used to work in an office in Philadelphia which had about 3 different street adresses. For some reason it was listed as something like “1 W Park” and not “1 6th S”… good thing the postmaster knew which place you were talking about, if you got the unofficial address.
Of course, it makes for much more fun (and stolen street signs) when Normal and High Streets intersect right on the edge of campus. I used to pass this intersection several times daily.
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”).
In Killeen, TX, there’s a street Called “Boot Scootin’ Court”. Barf.
There is a neighborhood a couple of towns over and it is flower themed. Not the worse theme in the world, better than Robin Hood for example. However they might have taken it a little too far when they used “Quamoclit” for one of the streets.
Oh, and I posted a “Bacon Ct” intersecting a “Bacon Rd” in the bacon salt thread.
That is ri-godd**n-diculous. What are people smoking?