“Perdon, señor, por donde queda La Calle de La Loca…o sea, de mi suegra…?”
I’ll see your Normal and High, and raise you Pleasant and High .
My local favourite is The Land of Green Ginger. 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.
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.
Fingerboard Road in Staten Island has always struck me as a very strange name for a street.
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.
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.)
Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate in York, England.
Big Beaver has a study going on about it.
We also have 696 highway
I remember from Reader’s Digest way back some street names from one area: This Way, That Way (or thatta way). Remarkably perverse.
There is the famously haunted (so they say) “Shades of Death Road” in New Jersey.
In Sayville, NY (Long Island) there’s a “Beef Bishop Way”.
No idea what that’s about.
It has become my life ambition to one day live on Popplebottom Road.
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!