Clever street names?

How about "Street" ? I forget where it is but I have seen it a couple of times, methinks somewhere in VT.

stuart in mn wrote: I had a conversation once with a city manager about street names. When a new housing development is built, the developer picks the names; sometimes they name them after their children, sometimes they just pull names out of a hat, sometimes they name them after some hobby or personal interest. For example, I know of one housing development around here where all the streets are named after semiprecious minerals, and another where all the streets are named after WWII battles (Guadalcanal Street and so on.)

One of those interesting tidbits.. The named streets in Philly were to be named after trees.. William Penn layed it out from East to West with the softest woods to the east and the hardest to the West

DrBoost wrote: Also in Michigan, I work on Big Beaver, which is exit 69 on I-75.

That wins the thread. Maybe wins the internet.

I lived in the greater Detroit area in the late 80s and early 90s--laughed til I cried first time I saw that sign...

In Clarksville, TN there is a street called Needmore Road which has an intersection at Needless Lane.

Here in Huntsville there is a sub-development with streets named after computer parts. Floppy Drive, Disk Drive are just a couple I remember.

My hometown in CA north/south streets are letters of the alphabet then numbers. East/west streets are trees except the main drag which is called Ocean Ave and it even goes to the ocean. Other street are named after flowers because flower seed companies used to grow flowers there for seed. The area used to be called Valley of Flowers.

I lived on a River Styx Road growing up

2 interesting things about Big Beaver Rd. First there is a Hooter's on it. Secondly there is a cross street with Mound Rd.

Another interesting one in Indy is the intersection of Ray st. and Charles st.

I read a few of these to my wife and she told me about Skunks Misery Road in Locust Valley, NY. She heard a lot of terrible ones when she worked for a company that did virtual tours for realtors.

Evan beat me to it...........we have an area in town with cool names like Abarth.

 Tom

There is a Needmore Road in Dayton. A number of years ago they were doing construction and shifted all the lanes. The sign by the exit off I75 read: "Needmore Rd Use Shoulder" which I thought was pretty good advice.

By my house, there's a small subdivision near the county courthouse where all the streets are named after legal things. I think it's the main road into the subdivision that is called "Supreme Ct."

And I love how one of the first exits off 75 in TN coming in from KY is "Stinking Creek Rd". I'd hate to give out that address if I lived there.

Richmond Va has Ladies Mile which may or may not be an allusion to past prostitution houses,

On the same topic, Culpeper Va has Lover's Lane which is just a side road past the highway

DrBoost wrote: Also in Michigan, I work on Big Beaver, which is exit 69 on I-75.

That road can get pretty hairy come wintertime.

The Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado (excellent museum, by the way) is located on Chaparral Court. . .

Some jackass put Kernel St. across from Colonel St. Good luck giving someone directions over the phone.

West Chester, OH north suburb of Cincinnati has an intersection of Grinn and Barrett roads.

Nameless Creek is the official name of a creek in Indiana.

I know, not the name of a street, but kinda along the same lines.

Keith Tanner wrote: Apple's HQ is on Infinite Loop, which I've always enjoyed.

When I was in engineering school (Colorado School of Mines) my dorm was on Infinity Circle.

glueguy wrote: West Chester, OH north suburb of Cincinnati has an intersection of Grinn and Barrett roads.

Sounds like we live in the same general area. A friend of mine lives a few blocks from that intersection

While not incredibly clever, it certainly is a little confusing- I live on New Boston Rd in a town called Bedford. The same road extends into the next town, and the road renames at the border as Bedford Rd. The town, as you'd guess is New Boston.

So you have New Boston Rd in Bedford and Bedford Rd in New Boston. It's the same road.

stuart in mn wrote: I had a conversation once with a city manager about street names. When a new housing development is built, the developer picks the names; sometimes they name them after their children, sometimes they just pull names out of a hat, sometimes they name them after some hobby or personal interest. For example, I know of one housing development around here where all the streets are named after semiprecious minerals, and another where all the streets are named after WWII battles (Guadalcanal Street and so on.)

We have a subdivision with Mercury program astronaut names.

golfduke wrote: While not incredibly clever, it certainly is a little confusing- I live on New Boston Rd in a town called Bedford. The same road extends into the next town, and the road renames at the border as Bedford Rd. The town, as you'd guess is New Boston. So you have New Boston Rd in Bedford and Bedford Rd in New Boston. It's the same road.

That's the old way to name roads - where it goes. So when you're in Bedford, it's the road to New Boston. Etc. Quite logical, as long as the trip between the two is reasonably significant. Not so much if they're 5 minutes away by car.

There's a "No Name" exit on I-70 just east of Glenwood Canyon.

I don't have anything "clever", but have several examples of just lazy street naming.

Back home in PA, there was a very large road called "Street Road".

Down here in GA, there's a road near me called "Old Dirt Path Road". And just about every other street here is Peachtree (Rd, St, Plaza, Blvd...)

spitfirebill wrote: We have a subdivision with Mercury program astronaut names.

Around here schools are named after astronauts and Von Braun.