Kyloe on 22/2/2001 at 12:47
I just saw that they renamed my favourite street. Actually it's a very shabby army barracks back alley, but it used to be
Allée Camille Saint-Saën.
Yes. In French. After all, the barracks used to be
Quartier Napoleon, up until ten years ago.
But there are a lot of streets and places that weren't named by the Allies. There's
Franklinstraße and also a
Benjamin-Franklin-Krankenhaus (a hospital)
Gallipoliweg
Jesse-Owens-Allee
Indira-Ghandi-Straße
Los-Angeles-Platz
Dijonstraße
Van't-Hoff-Straße
Lewishamstraße
Londoner Straße
Oxforder Straße
Pariser Platz
Hammarskjöldplatz
Wiclefstraße
Thaliaweg
Sven-Hedin-Platz and
Sven-Hedin-Straße
Jerualemer Straße
Tessiner Weg
Oranienstraße
John-F.-Kennedy-Platz (of course; guess where it is)
Pekinger Platz
Tromsöer Straße
Stalinallee (oops, renamed
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Hiroshimastraße
Syrische Straße
Olof-Palme-Platz
Mexikoplatz
Transvaalstraße
Quäkerstraße
Shakespeareplatz (I live there)
Griegstraße
Bolivarallee
Columbiadamm
Byronweg
Dolomitenstraße
Themsestraße (Thames)
Dimitroffstraße renamed to
Danziger Straße
Place Molière
Don-Bosco-Steig
Platz des 4. Juli
Platz der Vereinten Nationen (United Nations)
I could go on forever (can't seem to find any Spanish names, though) And it gets even more international when it comes to school names. How is this handled in your town? Do streets have only local names or do your officials honor international people and places?
Stonewall on 22/2/2001 at 13:29
Nothing so very descriptive and dramatic. We are a very pragmatic and conservative people, much like the rest of the worls assumes the Germans to be. Streets in Knoxville, and most of Eastern Tennessee, are named mostly for local heroes or for where they go.
Kingston Pike goes to Kingston, Clinton Highway goes to Clinton, Thorngrove Pike goes to Thorngrove. You get the idea. We have a lot of those.
We also have Andrew Johnson Highway, John Sevier Highway, Phillip Fulmer Boulevard, Pat Summit Boulevard, Chamique Holdsclaw Street, and Peyton Manning Pass. (Two Governors, two college-level athletics coaches, and a female basketball star. And Peyton Manning.)
They have tried many times in the last few years to re-name the main drag in the uptown area. The street was named in the 1890's, during the very first attempts to bring crowds back downtown... and the uses of words was quite different then than now. Times being what they are, I reckon that Knoxville, the Universal Center for All Things Redneck, will always have a Gay Street.
Grifo on 22/2/2001 at 13:43
Looks like Mosocow have little foreign names in this area,it sounds reasonable because most part of the streets were named under soviets.
Square of Amilkar Kabral(:eek
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Vilhelm Peek street
Gashek street
Square of Indira Handi
Square of Martin Luther King
Salvador Allhende street
and so on...
Sombras on 22/2/2001 at 14:03
You really have a street named after Pat Summit?! Gah!
Heheh, Krankenhaus always cracks me up. Just gives me the Gary Larsonesque image of surgeons busily thrashing on a patient, body parts and internal organs flying every which way...
Ahem, yes, street names. Nothing really typical of my native Northern California. Southern Cali, on the other hand, has some of the stupidest faux-Spanish, neo-colonial bullsh*t names you could imagine. Things like "Vello del Culo", "Playa de los Cacas", "Palisades de los Pepe's", "Canyon Californiano", "Mission Viejo", "Puerta Puto", "Campanas de los Heights", and like and sundry crap.
There are, however, a few "authentic" and/or humorous place names that have stuck around and are just quirky-cool. "Los Gatos" was given its name by the Spaniard conquistador (de Anza?) who witnessed two bobcats having it out to the death. "Los Baños" was probably named after some hot springs, but in modern parlance just translates as "the WC's". And if you've ever endured the long, boring drive on Highway 5 between the Bay Area and LA, you've probably missed the cut-off for "La Panocha". I'd giggle every time we passed that turnoff, and my mother would try to hit me from the front seat. ("Panocha", in proper Spanish is an ear of corn, I think. But to a punk from San José it means the c-word.)
Ishy on 22/2/2001 at 14:14
In Devon, roads and lanes have names from the dim Anglo-Saxon past whose meaning is long-forgotten.
A few at random:
Furseleigh Lane?
Spurway Road?
Moult Road?
Limehays Road?
Danby Lane?
Coombe Road?
Fay Road?
Metherell Road?
I don't have the slightest idea. It's probably worth a good few anthropologists' doctorates, or something. Just to make it worse, Devon supposedly has twice as many miles of road as any other county, mostly single-lane back routes which are resurfaced once every twenty years. Few mortals can find the shortest route anywhere, and no one knows every road. Not even counting towns and cities.
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davpod on 22/2/2001 at 15:43
I can say that Coombe Road probably comes from Old English "cumb" meaning a valley (usually relatively short).
This is not definite at all but comes from common place name elements listed in the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names.
Many's song on 22/2/2001 at 17:17
Funny street names in Paris :In 1991 I moved in an eastern arrondissement (you'd say "district"). In my street, there were (and there still are !) a lot of dead ends, in fact Paris's record.
A very funny thing is that in the end of my street ("Rue des Vignoles" for those of you who are Parisian) you have "Impasse Satan" ("Satan dead end"), and, just a few meters away, "Passage Dieu" ("Passage of God") !!! I swear this is true. Was it done on purpose ??
Other funny/weird/interesting street names in Paris with the best translation I can give :
Rue de la Grande Truanderie = Great Swindle Street (!!!)
Rue des Mauvais Garçons = Bad Boys Street
Rue du Rendez-Vous = okay you understood ; funny and true, I met what became my girlfriend for 5 years a few meters from this street !!
Rue de l'Arbre Sec = Dry Tree Street ; in fact, a "dry tree" is a metaphor for "gallows tree". this street was well-known in the middle ages for its hanged people ...
Rue de Bièvre = the "Bièvre" was a river that used to exist a few centuries ago. now in Paris there's only one river : the Seine. most Parisians do not know that, but the street kept its name from what is now an underground stream connected to the sewers ... on a map the shape of this street and other streets that extend it correspond exactly to the shape of the ex river ... you now find the mouth of this river very far away from Paris. oh, by the way, "Bièvre" is the same word as your English "beaver", from Celtic origin. so there were beavers in the whereabouts, a long time ago I guess ...
Rue Vide Gousset = Empty Fob Street ; now, ain't that thiefsie ??!!
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Longtemps, longtemps, longtemps, longtemps, longtemps, longtemps, longtemps.Tonamel on 22/2/2001 at 17:32
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Originally posted by Kyloe:
Los-Angeles-Platz
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(can't seem to find any Spanish names, though) Pardon?
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Risquit on 22/2/2001 at 17:42
Is it just me or does every city in America have a Magnolia St.?
PCommish on 22/2/2001 at 17:46
Having lived in America for over 18 years and never seeing a Magnolia St means that I must say no not all cities in America have a Magnolia St.
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