Unusual street names

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Postby Brent Burns on Thu May 04, 2006 12:48 pm

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KnoxVegas will get kick out of this.

This street name is located in Tennessee as someone wrote that it is the only road up to Constipation Ridge. This came from The Car Connection.com. I also am sending y'all the top 10 weirdest and wackiest street names in the U.S. sponsored by Mitsubishi Motors. I believe this information was on Saturday, February 25, 2006 at:

http://www.writingup.com/danni1185/strange_street_names_psycho_path

ADDENDUM I am now wondering if Mitsubishi, CBS News, The Car Connection, and I may have been had. :roll: :oops: There is an interesting blog at

http://squidpants.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_squidpants_archive.html

I had to really find out if Constipation Ridge is really in Tennessee, and it turns out that it may be in Story, Arkansas. I am sure KnoxVegas would easily spot a rat. I was googling Constipation Ridge, and I keep getting "Story, Arkansas." The person who wrote the blog suspects that some of those photos may have been "rigged."
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Postby StrykerFSU on Thu May 04, 2006 3:14 pm

There is an overpass over I-95 around Chester, Pa that if I remember correctly identified the bridge as Blueball Avenue...never failed to bring a smile on the way up to the Lehigh Valley.
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Postby Wade on Thu May 04, 2006 3:38 pm

I always liked Salsipuedes St. in Santa Barbara. The translation is "Leave If You Can". It's also the name of a surf break in Baja. http://www.surfline.com/travel/surfmaps ... cfm?id=388
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Postby Danny Hogan on Thu May 04, 2006 4:12 pm

16 miles northwest of gainesville there is a town called Lacrosse.

Street signs bearing "lacrosse 18" "lacrosse 11'' "lacrosse 5" "welcome to lacrosse'' may or may not have gone missing.
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Postby laxative on Thu May 04, 2006 5:10 pm

Wade wrote:I always liked Salsipuedes St. in Santa Barbara. The translation is "Leave If You Can". It's also the name of a surf break in Baja. http://www.surfline.com/travel/surfmaps ... cfm?id=388


I've surfed and camped at Salsipuedes numerous times. Absolutely gorgeous and a nice point break too.
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Postby laxiejen on Thu May 04, 2006 5:26 pm

disney's wide world of sports complex is located on victory way
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Postby KnoxVegas on Thu May 04, 2006 5:27 pm

laxative wrote:There was a street in my neighborhood called Rubicon Rd. I thought it was funny to cross the Rubicon...and then return.


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Postby Brent Burns on Thu May 04, 2006 5:30 pm

Later during the day, I also recalled seeing this sign near Waller, Texas (located near Highway 290) which is closer to Houston, there is a street called Kickapoo.

I know this is not quite a street name, but every time I go to North Carolina in the summers, I always get a kick out of seeing the highway marker saying, "Little Pee Dee River."

It is quite amazing how people in the U.S. or in Canada or in Mexico or even in the Netherlands would come up with those street names.
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Postby yourmom on Thu May 04, 2006 6:44 pm

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Postby Campbell on Thu May 04, 2006 7:00 pm

Brent Burns wrote:Later during the day, I also recalled seeing this sign near Waller, Texas (located near Highway 290) which is closer to Houston, there is a street called Kickapoo.

I know this is not quite a street name, but every time I go to North Carolina in the summers, I always get a kick out of seeing the highway marker saying, "Little Pee Dee River."

It is quite amazing how people in the U.S. or in Canada or in Mexico or even in the Netherlands would come up with those street names.


the Kickapoo are an Indian tribe Brent.
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Postby umdulax1 on Thu May 04, 2006 7:48 pm

There is a private drive just outside of Duluth. Feel free to sensor me if its inappropriate.

FUGOWAY... The first few times I saw it I wasn't sure what it was trying to say then I realized.... the humor of some people... :evil:
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Postby TexOle on Thu May 04, 2006 8:28 pm

There is a street in downtown Dallas called Harwood. Think about it. My immaturity has struck a new low.
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Postby Hugh Nunn on Thu May 04, 2006 9:41 pm

Danny Hogan wrote:16 miles northwest of gainesville there is a town called Lacrosse.

Street signs bearing "lacrosse 18" "lacrosse 11'' "lacrosse 5" "welcome to lacrosse'' may or may not have gone missing.


When I was at Auburn, a girlfriend stole the Lacrosse City Limits sign for me...now that's love.

Oh, and when I was in the Army at Ft Bragg, NC, I lived on Dyke St. Members of a certain orientation were always getting "hassled" by the local police for their attempts to , um, laterally re-allocate the above mentioned asset. I used to wonder if it were really that boring a town when the cops had to stake out Dyke St to stop the rash of sign thieves in comfortable shoes.
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Postby lil lady lax fan on Thu May 04, 2006 10:09 pm

When I was at Western Michigan the big sign to steal was for a little town just east of Kalamazoo--CLIMAX!

There's also a Hell, Michigan.
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Postby Lax_Stats on Thu May 04, 2006 11:47 pm

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I love this one!! LOL
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