Does your town have a street named after it?

[JacksonWhite]

For example if you lived in Beverly Hills, there might be a “Beverly Hills ave”.

does your town do that? Mine does and a package that was supposed to be sent to my house was sent to “26 (town name) Ave” instead by accident. Must happen a ton.

I think towns should rethink this practice due to the same

 

[Rev. Johnny Vegas]

There's lots of streets throughout Texas named Houston.

 

[Mrfrosty]

Just an Orleans Ave. No New Orleans Ave

Those are pronounced differently btw

 

[NoOneYouKnow]

Yes.

I'm betting nearly every city has one and that you're the only one who has had this problem.

 

[Mrfrosty]

Also have a Metairie ave and Metairie road

 

[KGB ate my bread]

Just an Orleans Ave. No New Orleans Ave

Those are pronounced differently btw

I kinda hate Louisiana Avenue and Louisiana Ave Parkway, shit has fucked me up once trying to type in the address on mobile, friend used to live off one of those

 

[jrmcm]

Plano Rd. and Plano Pkwy.

 

[Highlander_77]

Mine does not, as far as I can tell.

 

[mdaniel]

Plano Rd. and Plano Pkwy.

Parts of the Denver suburbs have a lot of this. You had really make sure you had the right Rd, St, Ct, or Cir.

 

[JohnnyBeagle]

There's a Coral Springs Drive, so yes

 

[Muddy Waters]

Yes

 

[ERock]

Yes

 

[ERock]

Other cities I have lived in have it also

 

[Sam Gamgee]

We have a lot of small towns in Massachusetts and the major street names are named after the town that it leads to. So, for example, in my small town, the street that leads to neighboring Northampton is called "Northampton Street" and the street that leads to neighboring Holyoke is called "Holyoke street". Wicked smaht! Then, because they were so quick-witted back in the 1600s, "East Street" is on the easternmost part of town and "West Street" is at the westernmost part of town. Same with North and South streets. And then, most of the other names are named after places in England because of colonization or are named after local, rich, large landowners from the 1700s and 1800s.

 

[wildflower]

One of the daughters went to UC Irvine.

Every other street in the fucking city is called MacArthur. Macarthur Drive. MacArthur Circle. MacArthur Way.

 

[Twinsen]

Technically yes, but it's in Millington, TN which is like a suburb of Memphis.



Thankfully, I have never visited.

 

[Mrfrosty]

We have a lot of small towns in Massachusetts and the major street names are named after the town that it leads to. So, for example, in my small town, the street that leads to neighboring Northampton is called "Northampton Street" and the street that leads to neighboring Holyoke is called "Holyoke street". Wicked smaht! Then, because they were so quick-witted back in the 1600s, "East Street" is on the easternmost part of town and "West Street" is at the westernmost part of town. Same with North and South streets. And then, most of the other names are named after places in England because of colonization or are named after local, rich, large landowners from the 1700s and 1800s.

My favorite down here are the roads there aren't anything like they're spelled, Calliope is one. Pronounced Cal-eee-ope. Melpomene? Mell-po-meen

 

[saabguy]

Current city, yes.

town I grew up in, no. But there is a road named after my family

*edit: and no, it’s not “Idiot Pkwy”

 

[mdaniel]

One of the daughters went to UC Irvine.

Every other street in the fucking city is called MacArthur. Macarthur Drive. MacArthur Circle. MacArthur Way.

MacArthur Blvd runs miles from the west part of Santa Ana by the river down past the airport to PCH. I only know of of area that has any other MacArthurs. It's a small area off the 55 with a bunch of office buildings.

 

[mdaniel]

We have a lot of small towns in Massachusetts and the major street names are named after the town that it leads to. So, for example, in my small town, the street that leads to neighboring Northampton is called "Northampton Street" and the street that leads to neighboring Holyoke is called "Holyoke street". Wicked smaht! Then, because they were so quick-witted back in the 1600s, "East Street" is on the easternmost part of town and "West Street" is at the westernmost part of town. Same with North and South streets. And then, most of the other names are named after places in England because of colonization or are named after local, rich, large landowners from the 1700s and 1800s.

LA's freeway names are like this, from the perspective of downtown LA. The Santa Monica Freeway goes to Santa Monica. The San Bernardino Freeway goes to San Bernardino. Eventually they assigned numbers to the freeways and people kept the "the" so we have "the 10" or "the 405" which is unique to SoCal. LA and Anaheim also have N/S/E/W streets although of course those boundaries were outgrown decades ago. LA put the cemeteries on the east side of East street, but now it's just East LA with houses all around.

 

[meyou]

Just an Orleans Ave. No New Orleans Ave

Those are pronounced differently btw

NOLA native's street name pronunciation is kinda infuriating.

Looking at your Burgundy and Calliope

 

[Mrfrosty]

NOLA native's street name pronunciation is kinda infuriating.

Looking at your Burgundy and Calliope

I see nothing wrong

 

[Mrfrosty]

From the mac to the melph to the calio

 

[dorkultra]

i don't live in the city of Parma, but there's a street called Amrap...which is Parma spelled backwards
also Layor is Royal

 

[wizurd]

Las Vegas Blvd