Street naming- making it unique

[shootingstar]

http://www.househunting.ca/buying-homes/story.html?id=08b530b7-1516-4cd6-94c0-851a2981bb34&p=3 Some real beauties in the comments section.

Look, I realize that naming streets numerically, ie. 4th Ave. W. sort of helps directionally. But it is sure dull and doesn't help everyone from a standpoint of memorizing an address.

And we leave it to the developers.. in some areas. Geez.

City I grew up in had alot of the older streets named after German-Mennonite settlers... Erb St., Weber, Shantz, etc. I thought it was normal until I met visitors who couldn't pronounce some of these llast names correctly.

[sarahspins]

Near where my Grandpa lives there are roads called "This Way" and "That Way" (and yes, they're right after one another on the highway)

In Waco, there's even a "New Road".... it's on the south end of town. Odd thing is, at one end it's 41st Street.. at the other end, Garden Drive?

I live on a very boring numbered county road.. but unlike numbered city streets, these are not numbered in any logical way - I'm not even convinced they were numbered in order of when they were created.

[crazycanuck]

I'll have to find the thread from a while back where we talked about odd street and people's names. Some were wayyyy wayyyy out there..

[papaver]

I'd rather have it simple and short. No one can write my streetname, it's way too complicated. So most of family and friends write w-street. (the streetname begins with a W) and we always get our mail. :D

Here we mostly use names of artists and historical figures (painters, writers, kings, queens, emperors,...) for new streets.

[Tuckervill]

There's a street in Bella Vista (Ar) named Suits Us. It always tickles me when I see it, for some reason.

Karen

[crazycanuck]

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=21064&highlight=street+names