How many roads are named after 'Sesame Street' characters?
According to Google Maps, there is a section of Lake Forest, California, with roads named after Grover, Kermit, Oscar, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster. Silverdale, Washington, has Big Bird and Cookie Monster. Pella, Iowa, has a Cookie Monster, which is really just a little unpaved road. A few other places have a Big Bird.
Famous bridge on CT 4
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Imagine trying to sell a house on Cookie Monster Lane.
Quote from: thspfc on June 05, 2022, 06:55:53 PM
Imagine trying to sell a house on Cookie Monster Lane.
Apparently the one in Lake Forest is a RV Park. Appears to be retiree oriented.
Quote from: bandit957 on June 05, 2022, 06:19:32 PM
According to Google Maps, there is a section of Lake Forest, California, with roads named after Grover, Kermit, Oscar, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster.
The other street in this mobile home park is Pothead Dr.
There's an actual Sesame Street in Tempe, Arizona.
Quote from: elsmere241 on June 06, 2022, 12:31:03 PM
There's an actual Sesame Street in Tempe, Arizona.
There's also an actual Sesame Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 05, 2022, 10:24:55 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on June 05, 2022, 06:19:32 PM
According to Google Maps, there is a section of Lake Forest, California, with roads named after Grover, Kermit, Oscar, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster.
The other street in this mobile home park is Pothead Dr.
I know of a Stoner Dr in West Hartford, CT (and no, there isn't a house number 420).
Quote from: BlueOutback7 on June 06, 2022, 01:28:23 PM
Quote from: elsmere241 on June 06, 2022, 12:31:03 PM
There's an actual Sesame Street in Tempe, Arizona.
There's also an actual Sesame Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
There's also one in Bon Air, Virginia. It leads to the Richmond PBS station.
There is a Grover Road in Millersville, Maryland right off I-97. However, I'm not sure the DOT had Sesame Street in mind when they were thinking of what to name it.
Sesame Street AND The Simpsons!
https://goo.gl/maps/okW2GoCearAwKADy7
The is an actual Sesame Street in NYC.
Lake Elmo Ave, MN
Well, the New Jersey Turnpike has two service plazas with characters' names in them: Grover Cleveland, and Molly Pitcher. (Molly was a mail lady in Season 3, played by Charlotte Rae.) Of course, at that age I also thought of Sesame Street when we got off at Exit 13 -- same number as the channel for WNET, or PBS in New York City (even Billy Joel notes that in the song "Pressure"). Where we were in NJ, we could also pick up PBS on Channel 12 from Philly/Wilmington, but I don't think I ever, ever, got on or off at Exit 12, for as often as I've taken the NJTP.
The main PBS station in Cincinnati is Channel 48. There was a singer-songwriter who was popular before I was born named Bert Sommer whose highest charting hit single peaked at #48. I think it's hilarious that a performer with the same name as a 'Sesame Street' character had a record that peaked at our local PBS station's channel number.
Quote from: bandit957 on June 09, 2022, 09:24:17 AM
I think it's hilarious that a performer with the same name as a 'Sesame Street' character had a record that peaked at our local PBS station's channel number.
Indeed, I just picked myself up off the floor, I was laughing so hard.
There is a neighborhood in Raleigh where the streets are named for Winnie the Pooh characters.
Well, if we include the human characters that really opens things up.
Quote from: bandit957 on June 05, 2022, 06:19:32 PM
How many roads are named after 'Sesame Street' characters?
According to Google Maps, there is a section of Lake Forest, California, with roads named after Grover, Kermit, Oscar, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster. Silverdale, Washington, has Big Bird and Cookie Monster. Pella, Iowa, has a Cookie Monster, which is really just a little unpaved road. A few other places have a Big Bird.
... Not to mention a whole city in California named "Grover Beach"....
If we're going to expand this to other unusual street names, there's a street in Elkhart County, IN, named Hemlock Court and every time I drive by there I ask myself who would ever buy a house there? I think I'd need a house to be at least 20% below market value before I'd tell my friends, family and employer that I moved to Hemlock Court.
Well, as of 2019...
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Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 12, 2022, 09:21:32 PM
If we're going to expand this to other unusual street names, there's a street in Elkhart County, IN, named Hemlock Court and every time I drive by there I ask myself who would ever buy a house there? I think I'd need a house to be at least 20% below market value before I'd tell my friends, family and employer that I moved to Hemlock Court.
How is that any different than Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce ...
They named it after the tree, not the poison.
Quote from: GaryV on June 13, 2022, 09:53:00 AM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 12, 2022, 09:21:32 PM
If we're going to expand this to other unusual street names, there's a street in Elkhart County, IN, named Hemlock Court and every time I drive by there I ask myself who would ever buy a house there? I think I'd need a house to be at least 20% below market value before I'd tell my friends, family and employer that I moved to Hemlock Court.
How is that any different than Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce ...
They named it after the tree, not the poison.
I thought they named it after Sherlock Hemlock.
There's a whole town in Utah named Elmo. It's one of the few incorporated places in the state that is not on the state highway system.
Quote from: GCrites80s on June 09, 2022, 11:33:48 AM
Well, if we include the human characters that really opens things up.
Nantucket has Hooper Farm Road
Quote from: GaryV on June 13, 2022, 09:53:00 AM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 12, 2022, 09:21:32 PM
If we're going to expand this to other unusual street names, there's a street in Elkhart County, IN, named Hemlock Court and every time I drive by there I ask myself who would ever buy a house there? I think I'd need a house to be at least 20% below market value before I'd tell my friends, family and employer that I moved to Hemlock Court.
How is that any different than Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce ...
They named it after the tree, not the poison.
Yeah, there are streets named "Hemlock" all over the place. There is a "Hemlock Drive" just a few blocks from my house.
There is a village in Central Macedonia named Snouphlaouphagos (Σνουφλαουφαγός), which changed its name last year in honor of Mr. Snuffleupagus's 50th birthday. The road heading west out of town is now called Snouphlaouphagos Provincial Road (Επαρ. Οδ. Σνουφλαουφαγού).
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Bert Street in Mena.
Elmo Highway in McFarland, CA
Quote from: SEWIGuy on June 13, 2022, 12:57:40 PM
Quote from: GaryV on June 13, 2022, 09:53:00 AM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 12, 2022, 09:21:32 PM
If we're going to expand this to other unusual street names, there's a street in Elkhart County, IN, named Hemlock Court and every time I drive by there I ask myself who would ever buy a house there? I think I'd need a house to be at least 20% below market value before I'd tell my friends, family and employer that I moved to Hemlock Court.
How is that any different than Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce ...
They named it after the tree, not the poison.
Yeah, there are streets named "Hemlock" all over the place. There is a "Hemlock Drive" just a few blocks from my house.
I recently learned that a locust is also a kind of tree.
Sesame St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/UjK3EjpdA97NHsHP8
There are Sesame Streets in Penngrove, CA and in Sacramento area.
Sesame St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YfTJo2Lbq9qSbf4U7