naturalplastic wrote:
Boring equals efficient. Sometimes you can get away with addressing something to the name of a famous building without the number. But you're not supposed to do that when you mail something.
But the US does have some colorful names of roads and streets, especially in the older eastern part of the country.
My favorite is a road in the eastern edge of the Appalachians in West Virginia that I have driven past more than once: "Keep Tryst Road".
Colorful, if not downright naughty, that name.
Closer to home here in the suburbs of Washington DC in the northern part of Virginia (not West Virginia) there is... a "Court House road" , a "Lawyer's Road", and a "Gallows Road".
Mom used to quip that "those three together sure tell a story!".
A friend, who lives near the last one in Virginia, informed me that the experts say that "there is no evidence that there ever was an actual gallows near Gallows Road". I was kinda disappointed to hear that. Virginia (by US standards) is an ancient state four centuries old. So its believable that maybe the Colonial government might have hung wrong doers near the road. Which would be colorful. But apparently no one knows how it got that name.
Lol.
I like that. That's the sort of name I like. There's one in York called 'Whip Ma Whop Gate'...
And yeah it is nicely efficient I guess, just doesn't tell you anything about the area if you're writing to it and haven't visited it.
22 Jan 2019, 5:28 pm
