Schechter on 23/2/2001 at 05:39
Here in Southwestern Idaho people try and be quite clever with the street names. One such name makes me laugh plus I would love to live there because it would be an eye catching address is:
Chicken Dinner Road
There is also a Garrett Street I am quite fond of as well.
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xoshade on 23/2/2001 at 06:16
I haven't really taken much notice of the street names around here. I'm in a forest and the concept of 'street' isn't very well received.
I can tell you that with a strong mining tradition, many
areas (often hills) are coal-themed with names such as cole, coal, cinder and ash.
Now that I am actually prompted by this thread to look up some of the street names, I find that:
We have a Strawberry Field (yay!), a Roman Way, a Queensway, a Kingsway, a Hawthorn Drive, a Lewis Glade, an Owl's Eye Close, a Larks Rise, a Kells Meend (eh?!), a Glencarn Place, a Nags Head, a Locks Row, a Mill End, a Hyde View
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif, a Cross Barn, a Beech Avenue, a Grove Crescent, a Birch Park, a Farriers Court, a Forest Patch, an Eastbach, a Carters Piece (wonder which piece?), a Marine Gardens, a Centurion's Walk (that's more like it!), some Crossways, a Clement's Tump (
I beg your pardon?), a Crown Meadow, a Cullis Lane and an Angelfield.
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We also have a 'Council Villas,' but I think that's fairly straightforward. My favourite street name is from Gloucester city - Spread-Eagle Road. It's usually the ports that have the best street names, don't you find?
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buglunch on 23/2/2001 at 09:47
Many Canadian towns name streets after native tribes,terms or trees, etc. after we've tried to eradicate them (e.g. Arbutus Drive, after they've cut them all down to build the snooty neighbourhood).Bleah!
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sailoreagle on 23/2/2001 at 11:44
Street names in my town are divided in groups. Each sector of the town has a particular theme for its streets: there's Italy (the various regions of Italy, like Sicilia, Romagna, Emilia, Liguria etc.), Europe (Germany, England, etc.), there's trees (!), there's composers (Vivaldi, Rossini, Cimarosa, Verdi), and so on.
buglunch on 23/2/2001 at 14:35
Respighi,too?
sailoreagle on 23/2/2001 at 15:37
It's been a while since I went in that particular sector of the town, but yes, I seem to remember a "Via Respighi" too.
belboz on 23/2/2001 at 16:30
There's a road in asia somewhere called
'Wan Kin Way'
GPMAgent on 23/2/2001 at 17:19
In my area, all the street names are named after Revolutionary War Generals, both British and American.
There's Washington, Cornwallis, Hamilton, Jackson, etc. You get the point, right?
And Washington Ave. and Cornwallis St. Converge
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I would imagine Magnolia Streets would be more common in the South.
Things are pretty boring around here. (Cow-lumbus, Ohio)
High St
Broad St
Main St
Front St
and, yes, Gay St., where oddly enough you can find some rippin' great gay night clubs (at least within a block of Gay St.)
A scattering of Indian names, like Scioto and Olentangy (I'm pretty sure they're indian names)
They put a replica of the Santa Maria in the river downtown and I think the stretch of road by it is named after it.
Of course we have Woody Hayes Drive to commemorate the violent patriarch of OSU football.
There are occasional fun spots, like Walhalla Ravine, peppered with nordic-sounding streets (I always wanted to live on Druid St!)
BTW, I may have asked before, but what part of Ohio are you in Tonamel?
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Keeper Mallinson on 23/2/2001 at 18:33
Cool. Most of our streets are named after English universities. Going down from my house: Yale, McGill (mine), Eton, Cambridge, Oxford, Dundas, erm, I should remember this... well eventually Hastings... and so on.
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