# Streets, Roads, and Highways in Popular Culture Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204 "2008-09-12T01:38:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/1 "2008-09-12T01:38:29Z")
See thread title. Object is to identify (preferably real) street and related thoroughfares that provide the title for songs, movies, fictional works, etc. Examples follow: “On Broadway,” (NYC), song, IIRC the Drifters 'Forty-Second Street," (NYC), musical “Sunset Boulevard,” (LA), movie “Ventura Highway,” (LA), song, the Eagles (U.S.) “Route 66”, (Multiple states), song and '60s-era TV show It would be fun an interesting if we can get as wide a geographical sprfead as possible. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/2 "2008-09-12T01:44:15Z")
42nd Street (NYC) – song from the movie & musical of the same name. Broadway (NYC) – too many songs and movie to mention, including **Broadway Melody** and **On Broadway**. Abbey Road (London) – Album title. Penny Lane (Liverpool) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/3 "2008-09-12T01:44:23Z")
**77 Sunset Strip** - TV show **A1A** - Jimmy Buffett album **461 Ocean Boulevard** - Eric Clapton album ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/4 "2008-09-12T01:52:11Z")
Holiday Road - Lindsey Buckingham Dancing in the St. - Martha & The Vandellas 😉 ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/5 "2008-09-12T02:05:08Z")
Not really helping with the geographical spread, but… Mulholland Drive (movie) Also, is “Fascination Street” (The cure) a real street? ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/6 "2008-09-12T02:05:43Z")
Jacksboro highway - John Mayall. It’s outside of Dallas, Texas Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/7 "2008-09-12T03:48:59Z")
U.S. Highway 61 - Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” Baker Street - “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/8 "2008-09-12T03:50:46Z")
Dire Straits- _Telegraph Road_ about a road in metro Detroit ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/9 "2008-09-12T04:50:14Z")
I don’t know if all of these are real Toulouse St. - Doobie Brothers Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan Seven Bridges Road - Eagles Copperhead Road - Steve Earle Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel 88 Elmira Street - Danny Gatton (album) Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead Grey Street - Dave Matthews Band Overture - Cotton Avenue - Joni Mitchell Ammonia Avenue - Alan Parsons Project (album) Williams Avenue - Quarterflash 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon Main Street - Bob Seger Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting 555 Lake - Derek Trucks Band Bledsoe Avenue - Steve Vai Feedback On Highway 101 - Johnny Winter Inca Roads - Frank Zappa 🙂 Oh, and Ventura Highway is by America, not the Eagles. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/10 "2008-09-12T04:56:32Z")
“10th Avenue Freeze Out” by Bruce Springsteen ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/11 "2008-09-12T05:04:21Z")
Does This Bust Stop At 82nd St.? - Bruce Springsteen Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen (on preview, a little late…) 53rd & 3rd - Ramones Highway 101 - Social Distortion ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/12 "2008-09-12T05:12:10Z")
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy), by Simon and Garfunkel 2120 South Michigan Avenue, by the Rolling Stones (Chicago) 18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare), by Cat Stevens ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/13 "2008-09-12T05:17:20Z")
Highway 666 figured in a few movies and urban legends before the highway department gave up and changed it to 491 (much to the confusion of my father, who, during a vacation, couldn’t figure out where we were till I explained it to him. ) > **[U.S. Route 491](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491)** > > U.S. Route 491 U.S. Route 491 (US 491) is a north–south U.S. Highway serving the Four Corners region of the United States. It was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666 (US 666). With the US 666 designation, the road was nicknamed the "Devil's Highway" because of the significance of the number 666 to many Christian denominations as the Number of the Beast. This Satanic connotation, combined with a high fatality rate along the New Mexico portion, convinced some people the highway was... ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/14 "2008-09-12T05:24:23Z")
Does Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads count? Good to see you **unclviny** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/15 "2008-09-12T05:32:48Z")
**34th and Vine** (where the cop broke my bottle of Love Potion No. 9) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/16 "2008-09-12T05:50:32Z")
**Ragged Ass Road:** The album and the song by Tom Cochrane. It’s a real road, in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. **Beale Street Blues** , by many artists, including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and Tommy Dorsey. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/17 "2008-09-12T06:27:13Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > I don’t know if all of these are real > > Williams Avenue - Quarterflash > . Most definitely real, in Portland, Oregon, where Quarterflash originated. Great song, too. Others that come to mind: South Street by The Orlons Accident on Third Street - Al Stewart Gibsom Street - Laura Nyro Tobacco Road - many artists Gravel Road - Scott and Michelle Dalziel Cinnamon Road - Shawn Colvin Highway 80 - Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer Dancyville Road - The Smith Sisters Birmingham Road - Jeff Black It Ain’t Necessarily Bird Avenue - Spanky & Our Gang 16th Avenue - Lacy J. Dalton (in Nashville) ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/18 "2008-09-12T10:12:19Z")
The Boss also has “Thunder Road”, of course… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/19 "2008-09-12T10:41:57Z")
_Stanley Road_ by Paul Weller (the street in Woking where he grew up) ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204/20 "2008-09-12T10:50:37Z")
101 Reykjavik - book and movie Beverly Hills 90210 - TV-show [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streets-roads-and-highways-in-popular-culture-titles/463204.md?page=2)