Just to say, mundanely and pointlessly, that I was there today. Briefly. Got out of the car and snapped a few pictures of the street signs with the cell phone.
State and Madison, Hollywood and Vine, Michigan and Trumbull it’s not. Quieter, for one thing. (Like, totally deserted.) And Epic is a dirt/gravel road, with 480th not being in much better shape.
But it’s a great combination of street names. Epic, we could almost say.
What worthy intersections have you visited lately?
Never actually been to this one, but it’s worth sharing:
http://this-phunk.deviantart.com/art/Church-st-vs-Gay-st-55154738
Spry Rd vs. Cemetery Rd, up on the Bruce Peninsula.
I drive by Lois Lane on my way to work.
On Long Island, there are two streets that intersect: Lois Lane and Frankie Lane.
And in the West Village of NYC, there’s an intersection of Jane and Hudson (remember Baby Jane Hudson?)
There’s Bombing Range Road and Homestead Ln in Oregon. Nothing says “home” like sonic booms and off target bombs.
(I’ve been on Bombing Range Road many times.)
Colonie, NY has an intersection of Computer Drive and Automation Lane.
Nothing recent but in high school our house was a couple miles from Hickory Dickory Dock. Mouse Lane has since been added.
Here is the intersection if Whiskey Rd. (AKA SC 19) and Easy St. in Aiken, SC.
This house in Huntsville TX has the remarkable address of 360 Roundabout Road.
Can someone clue a dummy in on what is special about 480th and Epic? (Other than Epic being a cool name for a street)
There used to be a sign on the Carefree Highway north of Phoenix that said something like:
Intersection of
67 Ave
In the future
I always thought you could just sit there and one day, the intersection would be there. Like Rod Taylor looking out the window of The Time Machine.
It was the wording that made it unusual.
Future intersection
of 67 Ave
Is just as accurate, but not as cool.
64th st.
Found it:
Only thing I can think of is that it’s a really high number for a numbered street.
Here in Houston, I’m kind of partial to Buffalo Speedway.
When I lived in Paris, my favorite was Rue des Mauvais Garcons, in the Marais.
The absolutely coolest intersection was one I found in San Francisco.
I was on a vacation with my parents, and we passed a street that had the same name as the first name of my best friend. I thought that was pretty awesome, but then, awhile later, we drove by another street that had his last name! I asked my parents for the map, and sure enough, they crossed each other.
I had them detour out of the way, and got a photo of the street sign (which even had them in the right order), and made him a large print of it.
I took these photos in Plummer, Idaho at the intersection of US 95 and Ann Antelope Road and/or Anne Antelope Ave.
Well, there’s no specific implication (inside joke, pop culture, anything like that–at least, not that I know of).
I really like the idea of a street named Epic, first of all, especially given that it’s made out of gravel and dirt and is about ten feet wide. A little like the tiny dog called Bruiser or a village of 275 souls optimistically called Something-Or-Other City.
As for 480th…I grew up in Chicago, where streets are numbered but the numberings peter out somewhere in the hundreds. I know that numbers can reach the 200s in other urban areas–Cleveland, I think, and the Bronx. But that’s about the highest street numberings I can recall seeing. So 480th Street is far beyond anything I’m accustomed to. And, though perhaps I didn’t make it clear enough in the OP, this is in a really, really rural part of the country, where I at least wouldn’t expect to see street numbers anywhere near that high. (The streets are actually numbered by tens, so 490th Street is the next east-west “artery” and 500th is past that, but 500th does not intersect with Epic, more’s the pity.)
Anyway, that’s all. No dumminess involved…it just tickled my funnybone.
(Lots of Lois Lanes btw–we have one too!)
What ever happened to her?
