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Title: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: jp the roadgeek on June 05, 2022, 06:54:47 PM
Famous bridge on CT 4
(https://bridgehunter.com/photos/29/15/291581-L.jpg)
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: thspfc on June 05, 2022, 06:55:53 PM
Imagine trying to sell a house on Cookie Monster Lane.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: Max Rockatansky on June 05, 2022, 07:07:26 PM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: elsmere241 on June 06, 2022, 12:31:03 PM
There's an actual Sesame Street in Tempe, Arizona.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: MATraveler128 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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: jp the roadgeek on June 07, 2022, 02:58:34 AM
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).
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: Takumi on June 07, 2022, 11:40:49 PM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: epzik8 on June 08, 2022, 05:23:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: kphoger on June 08, 2022, 06:34:45 PM
Sesame Street AND The Simpsons!
https://goo.gl/maps/okW2GoCearAwKADy7
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: dvferyance on June 08, 2022, 07:05:19 PM
The is an actual Sesame Street in NYC.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on June 08, 2022, 11:25:49 PM
Lake Elmo Ave, MN
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: lepidopteran on June 09, 2022, 03:03:13 AM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: bandit957 on June 09, 2022, 09:24:17 AM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: kphoger on June 09, 2022, 10:31:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: elsmere241 on June 09, 2022, 10:50:49 AM
There is a neighborhood in Raleigh where the streets are named for Winnie the Pooh characters.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: GCrites on June 09, 2022, 11:33:48 AM
Well, if we include the human characters that really opens things up.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: michravera on June 12, 2022, 09:18:44 PM
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"....
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: jlam on June 12, 2022, 10:15:03 PM
Well, as of 2019...
(https://i.postimg.cc/VLGc6Nhj/sesamestreet.png) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: bandit957 on June 13, 2022, 10:16:01 AM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: US 89 on June 13, 2022, 10:22:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: CapeCodder on June 13, 2022, 12:10:50 PM
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
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: kphoger on June 14, 2022, 12:12:48 PM
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).

Google Maps link:  https://embedgooglemaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Greece-18.jpg (https://embedgooglemaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Funny-photo-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: bugo on July 02, 2022, 07:58:17 AM
Bert Street in Mena.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: JustDrive on July 13, 2022, 04:11:15 PM
Elmo Highway in McFarland, CA
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: CtrlAltDel on July 13, 2022, 04:20:21 PM
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.
Title: Re: Roads named after 'Sesame Street' characters
Post by: bing101 on July 14, 2022, 09:04:35 PM
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