What's in a STREET name?

[Mr. Bloom]

OK... so you have my attention... but how do I say it?

Can you spell it in phonetics please?

Well, you say it exactly how it looks

sha - gog - a gog - man chog a gog - sha buna gunna mog

At the age of 12, I had to make it into a song to remember, but until Robyn let me know, I didn't know it's modern name...but I still remembered the song I made up 33 years ago!

[RoadRaven]

Okily dokliy Mr S... since you sang it to remember it, you realise you should really record the song and pop a soundbyte hear for us, don't you

Cheekily yours
Rave

[RolliePollie]

We have a Pineoakyo Road (get it?...Pinocchio!). Very clever!

The road across from me is Agra Street. Recently, someone taped a piece of cardboard to the road sign in order to add the letters "VI", thereby changing the name to a certain prescription medication.

What about funny road signs? There used to be a little gas & food place on the way to Lake Tahoe called Pow Wow. They had a gigantic sign that said "eat here and get gas."

[Mr. Bloom]

The road across from me is Agra Street. Recently, someone taped a piece of cardboard to the road sign in order to add the letters "VI", thereby changing the name to a certain prescription medication.

Yep, and a rash of middle aged men have been moving there!

I stared and stared and stared thinking Agravi...Hmmmm

Raven: It won't happen. Ringo Starr, I'm not.

[RoadRaven]

I stared and stared and stared thinking Agravi...Hmmmm

LOL
Me too

Raven: It won't happen. Ringo Starr, I'm not.

[Tuckervill]

I think that Mr. was quoting from Forest Gump.....Not sure how that related to Guin or Gu-Win or Winfield, but I do have a story to tell or tale

But, BTW, it's hard to believe that you went to Guin but not Gu-win, since they are so close together and if you are driving from Memphis to Birmingham, they are all three on the way. Anyhooo....

I seem to remember that you get off Hwy 78 right there at the two of them, and one is to the left and one is to the right. Turn right to go to B'ham, and that's why I thought I may have been at one and not the other. But it's been a LONG time since I drove from Memphis to Birmingham--at least 4 years, maybe 8.

Karen

[nancielle]

One of the towns in my neck of the woods has Bow Wow Road.

Regarding the lake, CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG er,
Webster Lake, I believe it hosts the swimming third of the Danskins Triathlon each year.

[RoadRaven]

But it's been a LONG time since I drove from Memphis to Birmingham--at least 4 years, maybe 8.

Karen

OT but I have to break into song... sorry
*Rave tries to do best EmmyLou impression*

"I would walk all the way... from Boulder to Birmingham... if I thought I could see... could see your face..."

[OakLeaf]

The road where teenagers used to have their midnight street drags is called "Vroom Road."

[echidna]

In downtown Salem, OR, "Church" and "State" intersect.
I've always envisioned terrible crashes there....

[Mr. Bloom]

In downtown Salem, OR, "Church" and "State" intersect.
I've always envisioned terrible crashes there....

Crashes or Clashes?

[tc1]

In Seattle it can be challenging to remember the names of the east-to-west streets in the downtown core. The names are not alphabetized. Since they run in pairs, you only have to remember the basic order, which we do by this mnemonic. From south to north, they are
Jesus (James and Jefferson)
Christ (Columbia and Cherry)
Made (Madison and Marion)
Seattle (Seneca and Spring)
Under (Union and University)
Protest (Pike and Pine)

Now if someone could provide a decent one for Rainer/Renton/MLK Avenues in the south end I'd never get lost. I came up with
"Rainier, Renton, MLK, that is how you go west way." That's from east to west, I know it's lame, and since the Aves cross it's not completely true.

[Fredwina]

Just back from Arizona;
The car next to Ruuning Mommy's bike shop is on Test Drive
A dirt road in Tuscon call Camino del Manana (road of tomorrow)

[Beane]

I have not actually seen this street, but have heard the story many times:

After building low income housing (in Maine, I think) they named the new street "Poverty Boulevard"

.....can you imagine?!

[chickwhorips]

I live on B Street between A and C Streets. I know we are so original up here.