Ten Street Names In My Town

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1. Pestalozzi
2. Chouteau
3. James "Cool Papa" Bell Avenue
4. Tholozan
5. Vandeventer
6. Blow
7. Kossuth
8. Hydraulic Avenue
9. Kosciukso
10. Cote Brillante

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

David Brown Ave
Abner Belcher Drive
Agnes Doody Lane
Oxbow Drive
Bennett Street
Creek Street
Beach Street
Beech Street
Wrentham Ave
Wrentham Street

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Cahuenga
2. George Burns
3. Delongpre
4. Kercheval
5. Gramercy
6. Hope
7. Sepulevda
8. La Cienega
9. Rodeo
10. Figueroa

― luna's eeee, Sunday, 27 February 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(huh, where to even begin? okeh, i'll make it short:)

1.Aru
2.Jõe
3.Käo
4.Lõo
5.Mäe
6.Oa
7.Oru
7.Poe
8.Puu
9.Vao
10.Õie

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 27 February 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Baker's Dozen

Baruch Drive
Coenties Slip
Desbrosses Street
Gay Street
Grand Army Plaza
Great Jones Street
Joe DiMaggio Highway
Malcolm X Boulevard
Minetta Lane
Morningside Drive
Reinhold Niebuhr Place
Shinbone Alley
Washington Mews

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in Edinburgh for a little while as a teenager, my older sister's boyfriend told me about some street called "co-burn" where I should go record shopping. I kept deciding to go do so, but I couldn't remember the name he had said. Finally he explained that the street name was spelled "Cockburn," and I never forgot it again. Ah, adolescence.

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're doing my Los Angeles home, here are my top ones:

1) Rosewood Ave
2) Elmwood Ave
3) Maplewood Ave
4) Hollywood Blvd
5) Orange Ave
6) Citrus Ave
7) Romaine Ave
8) Argyle Ave

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Bell Acre
(not joking!)

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

mostly just quirky and/or strange-looking-in-english rather than important:

pie ix (pee neuf)
lionel groulx (lee-oh-nel groo)
jean-talon (zshonh tal-onh)
cote des neiges (coat day nehzsh)
querbes (kairb)
gouin (gwanhh)
duquesne (doo-caine)
groll
rufus rockhead
arcade

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

to follow elliot...

st-zotique
st-cuthbert
st-laurent
st-dominique
ste-catherine
st-urbain
st-joseph
st-denis
st-ambroise
cote-ste-catherine

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was planning on leaving the 10th just "st-" followed by some of the wierder saint names. thanks!

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

pretending-I-live-in-LA

Abbot Kinney Blvd
Alameda St
Arroyo Seco Pkwy
Doheny Dr
Fairfax Ave
Foothill Fwy
La Brea Ave
Mindanao Way
Pico Blvd
Topanga Canyon Rd

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Some street names in the last neighborhood I lived in:

1. Cary Grant Dr.
2. Desilu St.
3. Gomer Pyle Dr.
4. Lon Cheney Dr.
5. Charlie Chan Dr.
6. Danny Kaye Dr.
7. Dan Duryea Dr.
8. Farrow Pl.
9. McQueen Pl.
10. George Burns Dr.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(Ha, now Matt Chesnut will know what neighborhood I used to live in!!)

(Trust me, it's locally famous for having the street names it does.)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(OMG, and I totally forgot to mention John Wayne Dr.!)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Shelley
Byron
Wordsworth
Shakespeare
Coleridge
Scott
Tennyson
Poets Grove

(the obviously-titled "poets grove" area of Elwood, down the road a bit from me)

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hennepin
Minnehaha
Xerxes
Kirby Puckett Pl.
Blaisdell
Olson Memorial Hwy.
Lyndale
Hiawatha
Stinson Blvd.
Avionics Blvd.

― f--gg (gcannon), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

St. Paul has much better street names:

Energy Park
Cromwell
Vandalia
Cretin
Snelling
Finn
Ayd Mill
Syndicate
Edgecumbe
Magoffin

― f--gg (gcannon), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oatson-Skyline Drive
Coronation Drive
Kelvin Grove Road
Rode Road
Centenary Highway
Jubilee Terrace
Wickham Terrace
Brunswick Street
Mollison Street
Fanny Street

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1st avenue
2nd avenue
3rd avenue
4th avenue
5th avenue
6th avenue
7th avenue
8th avenue
9th avenue
10th avenue

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Within walking distance of where I type this:

Parrott Street
Parsonage Street
Paulding Avenue
Maple Terrace
Locust Ridge
Craigside Drive
Furnace Street
Constitution Drive
B. Street
Chestnut Street

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering who was going to do 1-10 first.

I would kill for a numbered street grid a la manhattan.

Here are the numbered streets in my town:

1-23
25
37
38
39
59

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone in DC should chime in with the alphabet or state names.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

brooklyn has avenues a-z.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ok then, here's my "town":

cranberry st.
orange st.
pineapple st.
pierrepont st.
middagh st.
joralemon st.
schermerhorn st.
president st.
clinton st.
love lane

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw man, you just made me miss Brooklyn Heights sooooo much Jody.

Love Lane!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Some major streets in my city:

1. Fredericksburg Rd.
2. Babcock Rd.
3. Bandera Rd.
4. San Pedro St.
5. Wurzbach Rd.
6. Bitters Rd.
7. Binz-Engelmann Rd.
8. Huebner Rd.
9. Zarzamora Rd.
10. Culebra Rd.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, some streets in my parents' old neighborhood:

1. Perez St.
2. Pace St.
3. N. Hamilton Ave.
4. N. Pecos St.
5. N. Minter St.
6. Menchaca St.
7. NW 20th St.
8. NW 21st St.
9. Leal St.
10. W. Poplar St.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(I mention so many streets because I feel equally at home driving through all of them. And, just FYI, I live very near the neighborhood I used to live in, so I still drive around those parts quite often.)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

John Nolen Drive
John Q. Hammonds Drive
Clyde Gallagher Avenue
Esther Beach Road
Daniel Morgan Avenue
Amelia Earhart Drive
American Family Drive
Todd Drive
Fish Hatchery Road
Trempealeua Trail

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of ours are sickeningly colonial still, reflecting our roots. particularly in the cbd and inner suburbs. for example:

st george's tce
king st
queen st
william st
victoria st
barrack st
princes st
wellington st
stirling st
cambridge st

― gem (trisk), Monday, 28 February 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Zschokke St.
Suppiger Way
Old Trenton Rd.
Pocahontas Rd.
Laurel St.
Main St. (not actually the main street in town!)
Broadway (this is, tho!)
So. Pine St.
Beech St.
Dolphin St.

(Teeny, this town is 40 minutes away from St. Louis but I bet you've never been there!)

― stephen morris, Monday, 28 February 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if there are ten streets in my town.

East Hill Rd.
West Hill Rd.
Main St.
East Main St.
I live on North Jay. It used to be Upper Main so that counts x2
Dominion Ave. for our Canadian friends, but it's misspelled! Dominon
Cemetery Rd. another misspelling cemetary
Geraldine Avenue - has a nice ring to it
Skunk Hollow Rd.
Veilleux Rd. impossible for anglos to pronounce

I truly envy the next town over for their Holy Moly Rd.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 28 February 2005 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Street Signs of Little Rock. The Unfunniest Page on the Web.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 28 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's pretty straight up stuff.

Where my brother lives, they sawed down all the trees and then named the streets after them: Beech, Birch, Spruce, Hemlock etc.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(I just moved to st louis a few months ago so probably not!)

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

nickerson st.
westlake ave
warren ave n.
etruria st
dravus st
queen anne ave n.
2nd ave n.
1st ave n.
1st ave w.
2nd ave w.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, you moved into St. Louis? That seems to be a pretty rare event these days!

Where in St. Louis are you? I'll probably be living in the Central West End come June.

― stephen morris, Monday, 28 February 2005 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

downtown, come here, the rents are cheaper!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a secret St. Louis ILX contigent I've never heard about? Any talk of the town goes pretty unnoticed around here, despite us being responsible for Nelly, Chingy, AND Murphy Lee!

― stephen morris, Monday, 28 February 2005 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

bnw used to live here, mike @pplestein is here, and I think there's a few folks on ILM maybe but I haven't paid enough atttention.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(this email works if you ever come in for a show)

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Monty Hall Drive
2. Bachman Bay
3. Cummings Crescent
4. Bannatyne Avenue (because my favourite Guess Who album is called "So Long, Bannatyne")
5. Adsum Drive
6. Manila Road
7. Mandalay Drive
8. Maroons Road
9. Langside Street (in a scary part of town so it's nicknamed "Gangside")
10. Reenders Drive

― Sausage Gravy (Bryan), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

my rhode island home

1 gravelly hill road
2 sand plain trail
3 shannock road
4 jerry brown farm road
5 matunuck beach road
6 moonstone beach road
7 worden's pond road
8 larkin's pond road
9 ministerial road (greatest road in the world!)
0 mockingbird lane

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Monday, 28 February 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

1 Bethlehem St
2 Victoria St
3 Bargate
4 Wellowgate
5 Brighowgate
6 Deansgate
7 Convamore Road
8 Cartergate
9 Woad Lane
10 Westward Ho!

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 28 February 2005 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My Massachusetts home:

Van Deusenville Rd
(which then becomes) Front St
Prospect St
Main St (where my house is)
Pleasant St
Cottage St
Depot St
High St
and further afield we have:
Button Down Lane
Christian Hill

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a secret St. Louis ILX contigent I've never heard about? Any talk of the town goes pretty unnoticed around here, despite us being responsible for Nelly, Chingy, AND Murphy Lee!

the only time i was ever in the stl was on a train passing through. i'd love to visit for real someday.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Cracker Barrel Lane (winner)
2. Sims Road
3. Locust Avenue
4. Pat Head Summitt Drive
5. James Agee
6. Larry
7. Tobler Lane
8. Volunteer Boulevard
9. Moody Ave
10. Foster Lane

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Ocean Boulevard
2. Rustenberg Street
3. Freetown Way
4. Clive Sullivan Way
5. Wincolmlee
6. Saner Street
7. Laburnum Avenue
8. Stoneferry
9. Ada Holmes Circle
10. Land of Green Ginger

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Note to self: must visit Hull again some time.

(Land Of Green Ginger = best street name ever)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Gastr del Sol, "Eight Corners" to thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Mt Olympus Drive
Zeus Drive
Jupiter Drive
Apollo Drive
Achilles Drive
Venus Drive
Hermes Drive
Hercules Drive
Electra Drive
Vulcan Drive

(note: I do not live in Mt Olympus)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This seems as good a thread as any to mention that there is only one street name in Chicago that nobody knows the origin of: Agatite.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Manhattan obscurties
1. Dyer Avenue
2. Freedom Place
3. St John's Alley
4. Hubert Street
5. Cathedral Parkway
6. La Salle Street
7. Tiemann Place
8. Claremont Avenue
9. Hubert Street
10. Peck Slip

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 February 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Stubtoe Drive
Old Oak Drive
Silent Drive
Peaceful Lane
Diamond Hill Road
Bald Hill Road
Lloyd Avenue
Blackstone Boulevard
Red Chimney Drive
Troy Street

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 28 February 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Cathedral Parkway is an obscurity?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 28 February 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Cracker Barrel Lane (winner)

This is sad, but in how many American cities or towns is there a "Wal-Mart Avenue"?

Seriously. I live in Wally's homestate, and there's one in every town, usually a side road that comes off of the main access road from the interstate. In Little Rock, Wal-Mart road leads into an empty parking lot where Wal*Mart used to have a store. Now it's just an empty building. The green street sign at the light remains.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 28 February 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

**Cathedral Parkway is an obscurity?**

Busted! That was a ringer (110th Street). substitute Old Broadway.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 February 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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