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Old 07-26-2003, 09:54 AM   #1
elSicomoro
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What's in a name: The streets edition

Some street names are common from city to city or town to town: Broadway, Front Street, Main Street, Dr. Martin Luther King Drive/Boulevard, etc.

But then you have street names that you don't see beyond your own town or don't see very often. And then you have the names that, while they may seem common, just sound cool or funny.

You know the drill...post away.

In Philadelphia:
--Shackamaxon Street
--Ionic Street
--69th Street
--Trotters Alley
--Elfreth's Alley
--Moyamensing Avenue
--Passyunk Avenue
--Black Horse Alley
--Wissahickon Avenue
--Wingohocking Street
--Iseminger Street

In St. Louis:
--Hemp Avenue (the shortest street in the city)
--Loughborough Avenue (LAUFF-burr-oh)
--Chouteau Avenue (SHOW-tow)
--DeBalivere Avenue
--Gay Street
--Josephine Baker Place
--James "Cool Papa" Bell Place
--Dianthan Lane
--Vulcan Street
--Espenchied Street (ES-pen-SHYD)
--Pestalozzi Street (officially PES-ta-LO-zee, but pronounced by many South St. Louisans as PET-sa-LO-zee...neither version is actually proper)

In Washington, DC:
--Malcolm X Boulevard

In Mount Rainier, MD:
--Chillum Road
--Chauncey Place (my former street)

In Takoma Park, MD:
--Sligo Creek Parkway

In Chicago:
--Wacker Drive
--Jonquil Terrace
--Touhy Avenue (TOO-ee)

In Baltimore:
--Holabird Avenue
--Eutaw Street (pronounced like Utah)

More as they come to me...
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