# The intersection of 480th Street and Epic Avenue **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492 "2016-06-16T03:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/21 "2016-06-17T04:02:07Z")
As a teenager, I pored over the ZIP Code Directory in search of the nation’s highest numbered street. I think I concluded that 300-somethingth near Cleveland was the winner. The advent of city-style rural addressing systems over the last 20 years means that many counties now have roads with impossibly high numbers, and it’s common in rural Iowa or Illinois to find 870th Street out between the cornfields. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/22 "2016-06-17T04:09:47Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > 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 had a missed-by-just-this-much experience like this, also in San Francisco. I had once worked with a guy named Scott Baker. Well, in SF there’s a Scott Street and a Baker Street. So one day I tried to get a pic of the intersection of Scott and Baker. Only to find . . . those streets are (almost) parallel and don’t intersect. They _almost_ come together in the Marina District, but not quite. Dang. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/23 "2016-06-17T04:15:09Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [Haight-Ashbury](http://www.trazeetravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Haight-Ashbury-San-Francisco-California-%C2%A9-Pictureguy66-Dreamstime-e1413388052607-1000x364.jpg). Well, here’s a pic that you maybe didn’t actually take yourself, but an iconic – [perhaps _the_ iconic Haight Ashbury intersection photo](http://66.media.tumblr.com/4c5a562312b1e37fc0656706bc739a1a/tumblr_mtu3rpcl1s1sd6inuo1_400.jpg). If one is of a certain age, one _might_ even recognize the two people in that pic. Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/24 "2016-06-17T04:53:58Z")
You can entertain yourself for a long time, browsing at lovely street names in New Orleans. Here’s the intersection of Magazine and Melpomene: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sfTe4wo5G6NjvijKLcVl7-g%212m2%211d29.937245%212d-90.0714552%213f235.49%214f9.006%215f0.296 Just a few blocks away from Terpsichore and Annunciation. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/25 "2016-06-17T15:11:54Z")
I have been at the intersection of The Lane and Wong Way in Te Anau, New Zealand. Great little spot to eat nearby. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/26 "2016-06-17T17:47:00Z")
I’ve driven an ice cream van down Sesame Street- in Brisbane, Australia. Not an intersection, but still kinda fun. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/27 "2016-06-17T19:20:18Z")
I drive thorugh the intersection of [Victoria and Albert](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Albert+St+%26+Victoria+Ave,+Regina,+SK,+Canada/@50.4472313,-104.618185,3a,66.8y,180h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAh8IpfCYpxhGth8b7dxFfA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x531c1e4038775f47:0xe1301920b2a56482) pretty much every day. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492/28 "2016-06-18T16:20:55Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I drive thorugh the intersection of [Victoria and Albert](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Albert+St+%26+Victoria+Ave,+Regina,+SK,+Canada/@50.4472313,-104.618185,3a,66.8y,180h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAh8IpfCYpxhGth8b7dxFfA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x531c1e4038775f47:0xe1301920b2a56482) pretty much every day. Good Lord! What happened to that scaffolding? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intersection-of-480th-street-and-epic-avenue/757492.md?page=1)