Which mentions an intersection of Inyo/Butte in Bakersfield.
And sure enough, there are plenty of web images of it (the sign).
Bumping this thread since I saw this thread in my periodic random search of the Dope amidst my utter boredom.
I found Stoner DR. Google Maps can confirm that it is Stoner DR. But when I zoom in to Street View, the sign is now “County Road 123”, presumably to avoid the expense of sign replacement.
I wonder if all roads in the county technically have numbers or if they had to specifically co-brand the road for this purpose. I only wonder that because if so, they were lucky that it wasn’t County Road 69 or 420.
When I drove thru Canada 20 years ago, on 401 just east of Detroit I came across Sexton Side Road.
Some joker had blotted out the “t” there.
Not quite what the OP had in mind, but there’s a street in my area named “Falling Heath”, which I always misread as “Failing Health”.
According to this article, it’s named after a village in England and I’m not the only person to misread it:
Fallings Heath was a village outside of Wolverhampton, England, which Meredith listed as his place of birth. His sons later dropped the “s” from Fallings when they named the street.
But to nearly every one who glances at Bay View‘s Falling Heath Place street sign for the first time, the thought Failing Health inevitably pops into their mind.
In college, there was a guy living in my dorm who was a big time stoner. Every night there was smoke coming out of his room. At the end of the year when we were all looking for places to live the next year, he was ecstatic to inform everyone that he had found a room to rent on High Street.
Some college friends of mine got arrested at the Bong Recreation Area for recreating their bongs.
“That street where prostitution is active” not to mince words
I see that Wikipedia page mentions as one such street Bordhawlane. Might that once have been Bored Whore Lane?
Huh. Your right. The google ‘overview’ map still says Stoner DR though.
I used to be in charge of addressing for the county. Sounds easy, right? Gawd. “My numerologist says I shouldn’t be associated with the number 10” That was an easy one as it was a new subdivision, and it was small. He was the developer and is now number 8.
One woman put up a hell of a fight not wanting to display her address. You have to have an address displayed to get a building permit.
And of course the area/subdivision that we allowed the developer to address. That’s the biggest mess of addresses in the county.
I don’t have to deal with that shit anymore, and only 3 months until retirement.
It seems that theft was such a problem that the Horneytown Road sign is chipped.
Looks like NC may have given up on Horneytown since all the intersections I checked were unlabeled in Google Street View.
I’ve never been tempted to steal a sign, I mean wtf? The closest I came was deliberately stopping in Weed, CA, to get gas when my tank was only halfway empty, only to find that my printed receipt had a different city on its label. I am glad that I didn’t deliberately get $4.20 worth and merely filled up.
When we last were house-hunting we looked at a place on Tobacco Road.
There’s a photo of me wearing devil horns, posing next to a SE Texas road sign for a small community, Pop. 666.
He was a WWII hero, Richard Bong, Medal of Honor recipient. He shot down 40 Japanese aircraft from his Lockheed P-38 Lightning. He was from Wisconsin and he’s buried there.
In West Hartford CT where I lived for a bit I lived on Concord Street and delivered the Hartford Courant morning paper on that street. At the end of Concord Street was (is) also Lexington Road, and they both meet at Farmington Avenue.
So, there it’s Lexington & Concord. Some Revolutionary War history names. The DD coordinates for that intersection is ▲ 41.7654, -72.72 Lexington & Concord.
There’s also another intersection in the town center, Raymond and Burr. Like the actor.
Some farmer named two roads that meet in a T intersection, Dick and Johnson. Always made the kids on the bus guffaw.
Some time back, I ran across the intersection of Moose and Squirrel. I even started a thread on it:
A few blocks away from my place:
Is Lake Shore Drive (aka LSD) in Chicago suggestive enough for the thread.
Not so much a road name as a stage point in a road race (and it has a hotel as well):