Terrible Place or Road Names.

I just saw "Gay Road" on an I-90 overpass, IIRC it was near Erie, PA.

East of Toronto there's a road crossing the 401 called Cobbledick Rd.

In my old neighborhood we had a street of government housing and it was called Roach Ave. (really!)

We also had Goodwillie Dr.

 

Dave you forgot Passyunk. 0 tourists can say it correctly, and 90% of locals can't either!

It is pronounced: Puh-sh-unk


Oh and there is also Wilkes Barre.

 

Oh 16 Mile, you mean Metro Parkway, no no Big Beaver, oh my bad it's really Quarton...it's rather confusing to drive down 16 Mile Road.

 

Toad Suck, Arkansas: http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=59661
Toad Suck is in Perry County, in the Little Rock metro area.

Local traditions say the community was named for early inhabitants - be they gamblers or river boatmen - who "sucked up whiskey like toads." The word "suck" in place names often refers to a salt lick or a channel of water


The latitude of Toad Suck is 35.075N. The longitude is -92.559W. It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is 299 feet.

 

my dad used to live on HISCOCK SHORES in Consecon,Ontario.

 

The FOC Michigan regularly takes drives to Hell and back. Not this time of year though, as Hell has frozen over. I repeat, Hell HAS frozen over!

Also in Ann Arbor, there is a section of town where I had to give my boss directions:

"Turn left on Miner, and Miner crosses Felch, which is parallel to Hiscock"
"Turn right on Hiscock, you'll cross fountain (hiscock/fountain), then Spring (hiscock/spring), then you'll reach Summit"

How would you like to live on Hiscock?

 

'Bell End' near 'Lickey End' (Wales, UK)

 

Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)

 

'Crapstone' (Devon, UK)

 

'Lord Hereford's Knob' (near Hay-on-Wye, UK)
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Not that it's too terrible of a name but there is a Climax, Michigan. I could only find this exit sign, but there is a sign as you are heading east on I-94 that says 'Climax 1 Mile'...talk about performance anxiety.
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I jokingly asked my surgeon if I should be worried that the hospital was on "Gallows Road". He started giving me the whole history of the old courthouse ...

The funny thing is how much trouble the chinese restaurants (delivery) have with "Harvey" as a street name. I tried telling them, "like the rabbit", but I guess nobody's seen that old Jimmy Stewart film lately.

 

In Idaho there's a park called Beaver Dick Park.

 

Cooter Pond Road in Florida.

 

Dildo Newfoundland. Yeah we Canadians have some wierd names too. My inlaws live in Lower Sackville. I still laugh when I see the sign.
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Lmao!

There’s a “Butt Head Street” in Sheffield, UK.

 

What kind of stuff do they have at yard sales?!!?!?

 

f ucking, Austria.

according to wikipedia:
"Significant amounts of public funds are spent on replacing the stolen signs. In August 2005 the road signs were replaced with theft-proof signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to make the signs harder to take. In 2004, owing to the stolen signs and embarrassment over the name, a vote was held on changing the name, but the town's residents voted against doing so."
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LOL. Truth is often stranger than fiction!

BTW, the sign below reads, "Bitte, nicht so schnell!" ("Please, not so fast!") and there's a pic of a little boy and girl below it. That unintended double meaning is hilarious!

 

There is a Blower Street in Detroit.

 

We have Bloody Basin, as well as the corner of Beaver and Cherry

 

I am not embarrrassed to admit I spent many a beach-bum summer during my High School years in "Gay Head" Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard).

...and there's a street near me called "Dor Way".

 

We have a Climax, Colorado. It is between Copper Mountain and Leadville on SH 91. American Metal Climax has a huge molybdenum (correct spelling) mine. Climax is at the summit of Fremont Pass, Colorado's fifth highest paved pass at an altitude of 11,318 ft.

The is the "Two Mile High" Club.

PNH
2002 360 F1 Spider

 

How about Mullet Lake, Michigan

This is what I picture Mullet Lake Residents to be like:
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