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> > Sometimes real streets have funny names. In Hazard, Ky., there is a street that is 16 feet wide from curb to curb. They named it Broardway.
> > Right here in this county, we have Sugar Limb Road, Buttermilk Road, Strange Road, Old Stage Road, Muddy Creek Road, Alcohol Road and Virtue Road. The streets and avenues in town have names like A Street and First Avenue. Some people don't have a sense of humor.
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> Hrm. Most of our streets have spanish names that seem to have been named by planners that don't know spanish. Everything is either "Via something" or "Avenida something". My old house was on Via Escala. To get there you turned on Avenida Empressa and then it was off of Via Mantilla. It's rather silly.
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> In High School I had a friend who lived on Dorothy Lane. It was off of Emerald City. Yup, every street in his neighborhood was named after something from the Wizard of Oz. I thought it was funny, he never seemed to agree...

I wish I could remember where I saw a street called Lois Lane.

You might be interested in a book called California's Spanish Place-Names by Barbara & Rudy Marinacci. It was published in Palo Alto by Tioga Publishing Co. It has a great deal of California history in it and I usually carry it when I travel in California. I wish somebody would write one about Indian place names in Tennessee or the whole country for that matter. Hawaii has some really neat place names, too.
Howard