I remember reading a list of odd street names in(I think) The Book Of Lists, the one I remember is Haveteur Way. Don’t know if a Burger King is on that street or not.
Here in Lafayette, there’s street called “Feu Follet.” All the signs are spelled that way except one, which is spelled “Fue Follet.” You’d think somebody would rectify the error, especially since it’s on the front lawn of a bank and directly across the street from a U.S. post office, but I guess nobody seems to notice. (Then again we have one idiot here that’s writing the newspapers asking for the “Dead End” signs to be changed to “No Outlet.” His campaign worked too. Amazing that that was changed but the misspelled sign remains. sigh)
In Brooklyn, there is also Gravesend Neck Road. And there is a series of numbered streets with “Paerdegat” prefixed. Who was Paerdegat, and why there are over 20 streets with that name?
Okay, it’s a little late to get to this one, but just thought I’d add to it :
Um, yes … the poor soul also has an island chain, Central American currency, and (I believe) one or two cities named after him, since ‘Colon’ is the Spanish form of Christopher Columbus. You can still laugh at him (or the English word), though. As long as you know there is a reason for the street.
As to where you live, I’m not sure exactly, but it’s definitely not inner sunset or twin peaks. Sloat & 19th … might be West Portal, but 19th might be considered the boundary. Or maybe Parkmerced, which seems right. Forest Hill is in that area, but higher up the hill, I think.
Twin Peaks is, well, actually on Twin Peaks. Inner Sunset stretches for only a few blocks around UCSF, really; 19th is definitely the cutoff east and to the south Golden Gate Heights comes between you and the Sunset.
Back to the OP :
In Woodland, CA there’s an alley with a street sign labeled “Dead Cat Alley”. Don’t want to know how long the cat was there before it got its name …
there’s a street in Fremont, CA that has “Tanglewood” at one end and “Tangelwood” at the other. The street’s only about 150’ long; you could probably read both signs from the middle of it.
My friends and I found street signs in Fremont that all were our first names; only one of us couldn’t get her nickname, which she spelled ‘Merrie’. I finally found a “Merrie” street, though, in San Francisco, but it’s a parking lot. Not a street that runs into an area where a parking lot is, not even a paved area, just a huge dirt lot with a street sign. It’s located above the Sutro baths (now ruins), so maybe it used to be a road for them; but I think it’s just weird.
panama jack
“We’re on the road to nowhere, come on along” - Talking Heads
On the Westside of Jax, FL, there’s a neighborhood with nursery rhyme character names - my favorites being “BoPeep Lane” and “Miss Muffet Terrace”. I’m afraid to speculate as to wht the developer was thinking, and I often wonder how the street names affect the sales of homes. I know I wouldn’t live there.
Capacitor, regarding your question, “Who was Paerdegat, and why there are over 20 streets with that name?”:
Paerdegat is not the name of a person; it means “horse gate” in Dutch, and, as you probably know, is the name of the nearby 1 1/4-mile channel that empties into Jamaica Bay. (Why the Dutch named it “horse gate”… I dunno.)
My guess is that the streets are prefixed “Paerdegat” to avoid having otherwise-identical street addresses within the same zip code, or nearby zip codes.
I have seen a Technocentric Way, which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. There is also a Pirkle St, which is just plain fun to say. Frankie Lane is one of those puns that just makes you groan.
And, I think there might be a Peachtree St. or two around here somewhere.
I’m surprised that some of the other Atlanta dopers who’ve posted to this thread missed these:
There’s a Jay Bird Alley in the Peachtree Corners area of Gwinnett County. In the same vicinity (crossing it, in fact), is Peachtree Corners Circle, which seems lacking internal consistency somehow.
While not unusual in their own right, I’ve always found it odd that the Toco Hills neighborhood should include Merry Lane and Christmas Lane (which do intersect), Toco Hills being the most heavily Orthodox Jewish area of Atlanta, those streets in particular having a large number of Jewish residents, being within easy walking distance of Congregation Beth Jacob, the largest and most prominent Orthodox shul in Atlanta. I’m sure that the subdivision predates the Jewish influx, but I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a successful effort to change the names (or at least to change Christmas Lane).
I’ve always had a fondness for Jinx Street in S. Austin, TX.
Couple of UK ones for you,
Land of Green Ginger - In Hull
Whip ma whop ma gate - In York
Lickless Terrace - In Idle nr Bradford
Few villages
Boggle Hole
Grindale
Crackpot
Scagglethorpe
Oswaldtwistle
That sounds vaguely familier, where is it exactly?
I actually watched this happen, over a decade or so.
There was a driveway opening on to a gravel road in Annandale Va. The gravel road got paved, and folks started turning into the driveway fairly often and driving up to the house. The owner put a plywood board up at the road, with the words Private Drive on it to discourage this. Years go by. Developments grow, new streets are put in, each street replacing one of the long narrow 10 acre lots that had been there. Fairfax County decides to have all its street signs replaced to make them identical in shape and color, etc. Someone comes by, puts up a Fairfax County Street sign up. Private Drive.
Ha ha. No big deal. It gets worse.
The large lot just beyond Private Drive gets developed. The developer notifies the county of his choice for street names for the street he is building. He calls it Corporal Drive, which also has a Sergeant Court turning off it, halfway down. Years go by again, and Private Drive is developed. Now it really is a public street, named Private Drive. They are all still there, at the end of what is now Wakefield Chapel Road. (That’s another long story, about Wakefield Chapel, and the various roads named after it, and where it was, and where it was moved to, and other such things.)
Tris
Hm. And here I thought it was on the stretch of 101 between Ventura and Santa Barbara. I’ve got to stop driving these long stretches of road & not paying attention to where I am. Oh well. 
My understanding is that Zzyzzx street was originally a private road, and that the gentleman who named it chose the name so it would be easy to find on a map street listing. But that could just be a UL.
In West Covina there is a Gaybar Ave. in the middle of a string of floral street names.
And all the streets in Diamond Bar are nature or ranch oriented: Silver Cloud, Trigger, Oak Crest, Chirping Sparrow…
When I was a kid in Venice, CA, I saw a local street name we thought was funny: Ozone Avenue.
Then there’s Superba Avenue, which is anything but superb!