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Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
07-Aug-08 - 02:44 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Street names
Subject: RE: Folklore: Street names
Bonnet Bay, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, has a bunch of streets named after US presidents; Washington, McKinley, Harrison, Buchanan, Hayes, Harding, Eisenhower, Wilson, Johnson, Lincoln, Taft, Hoover, Pierce, Madison, Jefferson, Tyler, Fillmore, Garfield, Coolidge, Arthur, Nixon, Cleveland, Truman, Grant, Van Buren, and Kennedy are all there. There's no grid structure to the streets, and no particular ordering of the names so far as I can see.

There's also a suburb called Castlecrag where the streets have names like The Parapet, The Rampart, The Barbette, The Bastion, The Battlement, The Bulwark, The Scarp, The High Tor, The Tor Walk, The Citadel, The Barbican, The Redoubt, The Postern, and The Outpost.

In yet another suburb, Marsfield (Field of Mars, God of War), most of the big streets are named after big battles in British history; Culloden, Agincourt, Crimea, Khartoum, Waterloo, Trafalgar, probably a few others.

And in one of the western suburbs, you can stand at the intersection of Abbott and Costello.