What's in a STREET name?

[SouthernBelle]

I often ride:

Tater Peeler Rd. It's hilly and curvy. If you start at one end with a load of taters, by the time you finish your taters are peeled.

Burnt House Rd. The house is long gone.

There are others out here in the country. I'll post as I think of them.

[7rider]

My hometown in Connecticut used to be a one-industry town - Uniroyal (now, sadly, it's a NO industry town! ). The main drag through town is Rubber Ave. No one ever gave it much thought....always associated it with the old Uniroyal plant...you know...factory = jobs...until some radio station did a broadcast from a local bar and made all sorts of lewd jokes about... well, various contraceptive methods!

[Eden]

I haven't seen Starfish around for a while, but she probably knows about this one - its out her way (part of one of our races is on this road..). Just outside of Sequim on the peninsula there's a road called Kitchen D*ck Road

Not quite on topic - but we have some doozie place names from native words - towns like Humptulips and my personal fav Chumstick.

[Flybye]

I thought of another one, although this one never made it to the top of the pole.

My father is a retired fire captain for the fire department. While he was still working, he and several other fireman had the prisoners (our local street sign makers) make a street sign that the all found humor in as fireman:

Fugarewe St.

Fug are we.

as in where the Fug are we?

He has the sign hanging in his home office. City didn't approve it for some odd reason!

[Eden]

My hometown in Connecticut used to be a one-industry town - Uniroyal (now, sadly, it's a NO industry town! ). The main drag through town is Rubber Ave. No one ever gave it much thought....always associated it with the old Uniroyal plant...you know...factory = jobs...until some radio station did a broadcast from a local bar and made all sorts of lewd jokes about... well, various contraceptive methods!

Some of my relatives live in Akron (as far as I know Goodyear may still be there???) My Uncle is a professor at the college - home of the Rubber Bowl - yes the jokes are thick and fast when the Trojans come to town....

[sundial]

That's where my parents live.

[silver]

I had to take a picture at the corner of This Way and That Way before we left.

There is a road that we pass on the way to Bloomington named: That Road.

[oxysback]

I haven't seen Starfish around for a while, but she probably knows about this one - its out her way (part of one of our races is on this road..). Just outside of Sequim on the peninsula there's a road called Kitchen D*ck Road

Ha! When I lived in Tacoma I passed that road many times on the way to Clallam Bay to visit the ex-in-laws. I always got a chuckle out of it.

[Brandi]

Ok all my streets are boring. Except for Rabbittail lane. How about people names? My dh had a friend who's last name was Head. He's dad's name was Harry Head! Does that count!

[Aggie_Ama]

I find it amusing in Austin, not more than 5 miles from the University of Texas campus, there is an Aggie Lane. Texas Aggies are the rivals of UT.

[bambu101]

I used to live on Climax Road in Avon, Connecticut.

[sgtiger]

Just outside of Sequim on the peninsula there's a road called Kitchen D*ck Road.

I've always wondered who or what they named that road after.

Ok all my streets are boring. Except for Rabbittail lane. How about people names? My dh had a friend who's last name was Head. He's dad's name was Harry Head! Does that count!

Oh, absolutely! But names of people have their own thread here:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=17801


In Milwaukie, OR, there's a street named Where Else?. I've also seen Nowhere You Wannabe driving through one of the rural towns in Oregon and it was right. I couldn't imagine living there.

[Fredwina]

In hershey, PA the two main streets are Chocolate and Cocoa avenues.
There's also Almond and Goodbar drives.,and Caramel, and Buttercup courts

[TsPoet]

When I lived in Tucson, I lived on Easy Street.

Too bad I was in grad school at the time and nothing was easy!

[bmccasland]

I thought of another one, although this one never made it to the top of the pole.

My father is a retired fire captain for the fire department. While he was still working, he and several other fireman had the prisoners (our local street sign makers) make a street sign that the all found humor in as fireman:

Fugarewe St.

Fug are we.

as in where the Fug are we?

He has the sign hanging in his home office. City didn't approve it for some odd reason!

Back in the day when I was a fire dispatcher - I got turned in to the FCC by someone with too much time on their hands for swearing on the air. Not my fault the call was to Jacka** Acres.