Street Sign Name Game

[1995hoo]

Shadwell Park Lane ---> Kingstowne Boulevard en route to the grocery store yesterday. No prizes for guessing where this was. (I previously played Kingstowne Village Parkway, but not Kingstowne Boulevard.)

[jbnv]

Kingstowne -> Energy (Baton Rouge)


Energy by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[oscar]

Energy Dr. => Yarmouth Court (Falls Church VA):

[7/8]

Yarmouth Court to Hodge Road (on TCH 16 near Elstow, SK)

[jbnv]

Hodge ->Evangeline (Lafayette, LA)


by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[7/8]

Evangeline to Erin Street (in Winnipeg, MB)

[oscar]

Erin St. => Norfolk Lane (Falls Church VA):

[7/8]

Norfolk Lane to Kary Road (or Wyshynski Road per the special letter rule) (on TCH 16 near Allan, SK)

[oscar]

Wyshanski Rd. => International Airport Road (Anchorage AK):

[jbnv]

International Airport -> Tenth (Baton Rouge)


N. 10th St. by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[oscar]

N. Tenth St. => North Hartford Street (Arlington VA):

[jbnv]

Another rule update.

18. Erroneous signs (signs that are misspelled or mislabeled) are not playable.

Now back to the game...

Hartford -> Dees (Tangipahoa Parish, LA)


Dees by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[roadgeek01]

Dees Lane to South Street (Philladelphia, PA)
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/front-and-south-street-sign-bill-cannon.jpg

[oscar]

Another rule update.

18. Erroneous signs (signs that are misspelled or mislabeled) are not playable.

What exactly do those terms mean? Especially for signs with official names that were deliberately misspelled? Or corruptions of native words?

Some context would help here.

Anyway,

W. South St. => North Highland Street (Arlington VA):

[roadgeek01]

North Highland Street to Davis Avenue (Staten Island, NY)

http://forgotten-ny.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/56.davis_.glory_.jpg

[Eth]

Davis Ave -> Spout Springs Rd (Flowery Branch, GA)

[oscar]

Spout Springs Rd. => North Seventh Street (Arlington VA):

[MNHighwayMan]

Another rule update.

18. Erroneous signs (signs that are misspelled or mislabeled) are not playable.

What exactly do those terms mean? Especially for signs with official names that were deliberately misspelled? Or corruptions of native words?

Some context would help here.

I think he's talking about signs that were screwed up/misspelled during manufacture. Going any further than that would ultimately invalidate a lot of plays that have already been made (and even by my interpretation, it might invalidate some anyway, if he means things like "North Valley Dr" being improperly signed as "N Valley Dr" [a street I played earlier in the thread]).

In any case, to me it seems like a solution in search of a problem. Not sure why playing misspelled or improperly abbreviated signs would be an issue. Does that mean I can never play Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy from here in Des Moines? Because that's its official name, yet every single sign along the roadway is abbreviated M L King Jr Pkwy. Or Frederick M Hubbell Avenue, which is officially its name but signs only say "Hubbell Avenue" (and I seriously doubt that many people actually know the road's full name).

Now to my next play:

Seventh Street N → E Highview Drive (Des Moines, IA)

[oscar]

E. Highview Dr. => Williamsburg Boulevard (Arlington VA):

[MNHighwayMan]

Williamsburg Boulevard → George Flagg Parkway (Des Moines, IA)

[oscar]

Another George, this one for the street where I live.

George Flagg Pkwy => North George Mason Drive (Arlington VA -- BTW, the other sign on that assembly is for N. Buchanan St., no help under the new N rule):

[MNHighwayMan]

I was hoping someone would make excellent use of my G____g play, and you knocked it out of the park. That's awesome.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Dang, I was out and I couldn't play my G .

[jbnv]

I think he's talking about signs that were screwed up/misspelled during manufacture.

Yes. For example, consider this sign:

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This sign isn't playable because the street is actually "Eighth," not "Eight."

Going any further than that would ultimately invalidate a lot of plays that have already been made (and even by my interpretation, it might invalidate some anyway, if he means things like "North Valley Dr" being improperly signed as "N Valley Dr" [a street I played earlier in the thread]).

In any case, to me it seems like a solution in search of a problem. Not sure why playing misspelled or improperly abbreviated signs would be an issue. Does that mean I can never play Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy from here in Des Moines? Because that's its official name, yet every single sign along the roadway is abbreviated M L King Jr Pkwy. Or Frederick M Hubbell Avenue, which is officially its name but signs only say "Hubbell Avenue" (and I seriously doubt that many people actually know the road's full name).

Inappropriate abbreviations do not invalidate a sign. Rule 13: A name plays out according to its full spelling. And Rule 17 makes certain words and abbreviations optional. So "M L King Jr" plays as M_G/R.

The spirit of the rule is to make things like the "Eight" above unplayable because it is misspelled and should end in H rather than T.

Per rule 18, "Hubbell Avenue" is unplayable if the legal name of the road is actually Frederick M Hubbell Avenue. If you had played "Hubbell Ave." off of an H without calling attention to the mislabel, and nobody else pointed it out, I would have let it slide. So my advice on such cases is this: Play it, but if another player finds it, the play is invalid and someone can play off of the last valid play.

[oscar]

What about the Dalton Highway, which I played long ago as a "D" in this thread, using a photo of a  street blade saying "Dalton Hwy". The full name, as indicated on a few other signs, is "James W. Dalton Highway", though everybody just calls it  "the Dalton" (or "the Haul Road" or other nicknames not appearing on street signs). I knew that, but what about people who want to play a photo and don't know what isn't on the sign?

And about "Eight Street", are you sure that isn't the full legal name? Some jurisdictions, especially in western Canada, leave off the "th" or "st" or "nd" in their numbered street names.

I agree that if a "Hubbell Avenue" sign starts (in small print) with "Frederick M.", that additional info should not be ignored. But as a practical matter, we should just go with what's on the sign.