Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
Spare a thought for buns3000 - relocates interstate, gets new licence plate for car… 3-letter section of plate? RIM. 3 years later and I’m still copping the jokes.
It would be fun to mess with those people and address their mail to “Stoned Eagle Court”.
I wouldn’t have a problem living on Gay Street. Three letters, sure beats Kosciuzko Street or other similarly long and difficult-to-spell street names. Of course, I grew up on Grubb Avenue, so I’m pretty immune to feeling shame over a street name.
Local town has a major street called King George The Fifth Jubilee Avenue, and also a minor street called King Avenue. Whose bright idea was that? Pizza delivery guys always go to the big street first.
Yeah, but think of the surfing!
Fresh from the Memory Stick [sup]tm[/sup], I present Felch Street in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.
The road leading to my old high school was called “Gay Way.” High schoolers and “Gay Way” didn’t mix well–that sign was stolen at least once a month.
Hey! I grew up on Highland Drive!
C’mon … nothing on Felch Street?
Would I live on Gay St.? Sure, but only if it were located in Sodom, Connecticut, or, for that matter, in Maine, Ohio, West Virginia, Vermont, or New York!
The Sodom in Ohio has a Tibbetts Wick Rd, but the others have no streetnames that are even remotely amusing. Pity. I do wonder what goes on, however, at the Henry Van Motel on Sodom Road in NY.
There’s a Felch Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, too.
I live only a few blocks from Paulina! OMG GOD!
Is that like ‘gotcha ya’?
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Gay St?
I googled Tobacco Road and couldn’t find anything except smoking websites. Can you please enlighten me on this?
Here ya go, fetus.
Gay Street might be accptable, but how about Crotch Crescent?
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
I would live on any of the streets mentioned, except for the particularly vulgar British ones like Butt Hole Rd and the like. I wouldn’t live on Gay St if I planned to have children, for the same reason mentioned earlier–the relentless teasing they would undoubtedly endure. I wouldn’t have any problem living on such a street myself.
Yeah. Diane (or maybe it was Zette, now I can’t remember) wrote that in a thread a while ago accidentally.
I’m not sure how true it is, but I’ve heard that a lot of the roads around here were named whatever the people who paid for their creation wanted them to be called. That makes me wonder about Small Paul road in Dover. Named after someone’s little boy, or someone’s little ex? 
I’d probably live on Gay road. Like someone else said, I’d be so happy to be able to buy a house I wouldn’t care about the name. Old streets I lived on make me wonder how many of them are going to end up as yuppie baby names in ten years: Packard, Kendall (which I actually like as a girl’s name), Batchelder, Highland (ave), US Route ___…
Though I’m not surprised at the link Larry Mudd turned up, the reference for me comes from David Payne’s Early From the Dance.
The main female character, Jane McCrae, reflects throughout the book on a young woman who was murdered and buried in a field on Tobacco Road. To me, this aspect of the books, has always been a creepy exploration of the Mister-Goodbar-esque theme of a woman being punished for not following society’s mores. It’s just not a thought I’d want crossing my mind everytime I thought of my home.
BTW, for anyone interested, Payne’s book is great, and I highly recommend it.