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Old 01-March-2006, 09:58 AM
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There's a Lois Lane somewhere around here.
There's one in Southfield, Michigan as well.
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Not a particularly funny name, but I have a cousin named Kerry Lynn and my aunt and uncle shortly moved to Kerry Lane a year later. Coincidence? I think not…
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Several Dutch cities have a Hamburger Straat.
Which is of course the road leading to Hamburg.
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Old 01-March-2006, 10:13 PM
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Several Dutch cities have a Hamburger Straat.
Which is of course the road leading to Hamburg.
That is very common in this part of Ohio. We have lots of roads named Chardon Road or Solon Road because those are the towns they go to. We also seem to like hypenated names (the two endpoints) like Kirtland-Chardon Road. Then there is the one called SOM Center Road because it comes from Solon to Orange to Mayfield Center. Its just that none of our towns are named for food.
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Several Dutch cities have a Hamburger Straat.
Which is of course the road leading to Hamburg.
Is a McDonalds there? Many years ago, several of us went to the restraunt at the top of Hamburg's tower expecting the world's best hamburger; we got a ham sandwich.
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A short dead-end street in National City CA: Goesno Place.
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That is very common in this part of Ohio. We have lots of roads named Chardon Road or Solon Road because those are the towns they go to.
Up until ten years ago, this city/county had a lot of duplicates, for that reason--one road might be the road to Chapel Hill, and a little farther up the country, another road to Chapel Hill.
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There's an interesting intersection in Aiken, SC, formed by Whiskey Road and Easy Street. When I was living in the Augusta, Ga area, I ran a 10K in Aiken that went through there. The t-shirt we received showed the street signs at the intersection and bore the caption "I ran Whiskey!"

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Some roads near me:

Glory Road
Abbey Road
Penny Lane (I figure the developer was a Beatles & Heinlein fan)
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Not long after 9/11, the folks living on Anthrax (the developer was a heavy metal fan) thought seriously about changing the name of their street.
Well, that makes sense. In my town, residents actually succeeded in petitioning the town to change the name of their street, for decency's sake - Hooker Lane! Yet somehow, all the people named Hooker manage to live with their shame.

I heard there was a street in Houston named Damfino Street - as in "Where's Joe's Bar?" "Damfino." But I couldn't find it on Yahoo Maps, so it's probably just a story.
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West of Catonsville, MD where we used to live, out on Rt. 40, there was a Cemetery Lane. Not funny by itself, but (I swear this is true) there was a sign just below it that read 'Dead End'.

And in Louisville, KY, Muhammad Ali Blvd crosses Clay St.
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Old 27-January-2007, 12:20 AM
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In my town, residents actually succeeded in petitioning the town to change the name of their street, for decency's sake - Hooker Lane!
Jeez, what would they think of the Hooker Telescope?
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Old 27-January-2007, 01:29 AM
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In my town, residents actually succeeded in petitioning the town to change the name of their street, for decency's sake - Hooker Lane!
Jeez, what would they think of the Hooker Telescope?
I wonder what euphemism they would come with for the stuff on this rose twig?
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...I heard there was a street in Houston named Damfino Street...But I couldn't find it on Yahoo Maps, so it's probably just a story.
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well this is not a street name but in newfoundland the a place called Conception Bay.
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Do you know what day it was discovered?

I ask, because a lot of Catholic explorers named their discoveries based on the Catholic feast day they discovered it. (I believe there's a Point Concepcion in California named for that reason--it's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.)
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Do you know what day it was discovered?

I ask, because a lot of Catholic explorers named their discoveries based on the Catholic feast day they discovered it. (I believe there's a Point Concepcion in California named for that reason--it's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.)
Do not know what day it was discovered, there is river and in city in new brunswick named Saint John because it was discovered on a feast day.
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I made it all the way through the sixties and most of the seventies before it dawned on me that back in 1954, we moved onto Mello Avenue...George Carlin woulda loved it...

...I still live there...
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