What are some unusual street names in your home town?

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What are some unusual street names in your home town?

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This one is one of my all time favorites!

It is...

Balls Ferry Rd.
Try that one with a phone order!! :o
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manlove st.
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Since we've been looking for houses, we've come across all sorts of weird street names...one newer development has steets named for 30's and 40's hollywood stars and starlets, another area has street names named for all monopoly proerties
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I live on Sparkleberry Rd.
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we have a "Lamer" street here. :D
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Shaggy wrote:I live on Sparkleberry Rd.
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John wrote:Assawoman St.

Gay St.
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garfield drive
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Avenue Road
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Railroad Road
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John wrote:Assawoman St.

Gay St.
Are you serious John????? :rotfl:
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There is a Gay St here in Auburn as well.
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Ny Strandvej, Jernbane Alle, Gammel Mejerivej, Ådalsvej...

I expect most of you would find all of the street names around me unusual!
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Not a street name but upstate New York there's a town called Coxsackie!
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An up and up place here in town, Bonar Ave...

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alot of the streets and roads around my house are named after poets and writers. I live on frost trail and there is shakespear along with many many other famous names.
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There's one on Fishers Island called... "The Gloaming"

Not Gloaming Street, or Gloaming Road...but ..."The Gloaming"
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Lickinghole Road.


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^^^ :rotfl:
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YeOldeStonecat wrote:There's one on Fishers Island called... "The Gloaming"

Not Gloaming Street, or Gloaming Road...but ..."The Gloaming"

http://www.capebretonisland.com/stanns/inthegloaming/

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Simcoe Street

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Simcoe was the guy way back in the day that developped how the streets in Toronto, Ontario...should be laid out, very cool...but they, the man, ie Canadian Municipal Government, decided to rename the bottom half, BLUE JAY WAY....how crappy demand vs supply is that!!!
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Mad_Haggis wrote:Simcoe was the guy way back in the day that developped how the streets in Toronto, Ontario...should be laid out, very cool...but they, the man, ie Canadian Municipal Government, decided to rename the bottom half, BLUE JAY WAY....how crappy demand vs supply is that!!!
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Hey, Blue Jay Way is a very cool song :nod:
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Abbey Road
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