# Strangely named places you've been to

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**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-named-places-youve-been-to/843629 "2019-11-18T22:20:14Z")\
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The La Brea Tar Pits. “La”=the and “Brea”=tar. The the tar tar pits, what a pit.

Can I suggest a road? An official sign near a prior home proclaimed “No Name Street.”

Then there was a street in Palos Verdes (a peninsula by Los Angeles) named “End of the Colorado River” which was 200 miles away. A local town now has a sign up for Pig Shit Alley. And when Rudy Vallée moved to Bel-Air he had his access road named “Rue de Vallée” which isn’t much worse than seeing “Costco Road” on US maps.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-named-places-youve-been-to/843629/142 "2019-12-12T17:07:57Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I’ve been to **Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg** in Massachusetts. It’s not far from one place I used to work.
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> [Lake Chaubunagungamaug - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chaubunagungamaug)

“Lake divided by islands” may be descriptive, but nowhere near as colorful as the translation a high school teacher once claimed: “You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle” 😃

Rue de Vallée is actually kind of cute and clever. Valley Road, what’s not to love?

I always get a kick out of Apple’s HQ address: “1 Infinite Loop”.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangely-named-places-youve-been-to/843629/143 "2019-12-12T17:39:06Z")

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I’ve visited [Bland, MO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland,_Missouri). It was accurate.

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I once went to Zig-Zag Alley in Charleston SC. It, too, was an appropriate name.

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