Every town has the standards: First, Main, Broadway. I’m not sure why there’s a Texas Street in California, but, hey, maybe they ran out of ideas.Then there’s Why Worry Lane. Awww. I wanna live on Why Worry Lane – too bad the last house sold for $4.9 million — in 1999. Looks like I won’t ever live there; but I won’t have to live on Alcatraz either. Frank Zappa must have collaborated on Moonbeam Way. (Insert Twilight Zone theme song.)
Cookie Court, now I could live there. Coalmine View? No, I don’t want a view of the coalmine. Not that you would since living on Bay View doesn’t insure a view of the bay. I’d like to do a reverse directory search to see if anyone named Mercury lives on Winged Foot. Shady Lane…awww. That’s a possibility. No matter if I don’t like the house; I like the street name.
It would seem logical that Railroad Avenue would have a train passing by, but nooo. Easy Street? Nah.
Michigan has Physco Path – no, really.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, don’t buy a house on Divorce Court. Stick to Lovers Lane.
Okay, now. It’s gotten out of hand. I just landed in Austria.
Mariana Wagner
March 25, 2008 at 9:35 pm
OMG… We have a neighborhood that is full of street names like: Happiness, Serendipity, Carefree, etc … Then, right down the street is Purgatory Rd.
Kelley Koehler
March 25, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I used to live on Avenida los Vallectios. Try spelling THAT one to the pizza guy.
Kelley Koehler
March 25, 2008 at 9:50 pm
make that Vallecitos. whoopsie.
Bill Lublin
March 26, 2008 at 2:56 am
One of my favorites was a Street in Philadelphia called Enola – When the builder put his house there it was the only house on the Street – (Enola is Alone spelled backwards!) 🙂
Teresa Boardman
March 26, 2008 at 4:35 am
We have a Teresa street and a Boardman street here. Teresa is in West St. Paul and Boardman is in Minneapolis. Just thought you might like to know just how famous I am.
Vicki Moore
March 26, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Mariana – Do you think they planned that?
Kelley – We have a lot of Spanish street names but I don’t think that’s one of them. Maybe I should ask that question to my buyer clients: Is the name of the street important to you? What if they said yes. OMG!
Bill – Thanks for the explanation. I wouldn’t have figured that out on my own.
Teresa – We already knew you were famous – and special!
ines
March 26, 2008 at 9:55 pm
My brother lives in Lawn way next to fern street off of Lark Avenue – I think your street namers were more creative!
Michael Price
March 27, 2008 at 2:48 am
My favorite recently was taking down a message for my wife for someone that lived on street named “Fragrant Cloud” – I’m just a guy, a fragrant cloud is something you blame on the dog.