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- From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
- Subject: Re: Amusing street names
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.013656.9851@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University
- References: <1992Dec20.174303.1786@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:36:56 GMT
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- Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
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- : BTW, are there any ULs or even (horrors!) facts about how "Great Jones
- : Street" in New York got its name? Was there a person referred to as
- : "Great Jones," or is the street distinguished from a lesser street
- : of the same name? There is a one-block "Great Jones Street" in
- : Durham, N.C., too; nothing is on it anymore, but they keep the sign
- : up anyway.
-
- Just about every city and town in New Mexico somewhere has a "Princess Jeanne
- Lane". Supposedly, a developer that built in just about every community in New
- Mexico had a daughter named Jeanne, and he
-
- Some actual street names in regions outlying Las Cruces, before Dona Ana County
- adopted a street naming ordinance ...
-
- * "Fat Katy Lane"
- * "Bar-b-que Lane"
- * "No Name Street"
- * Eight streets named "Barela Road" in various locations, Barela being a proper
- name and not meaning "Thank You", "One Way" or anything like that.
-
- My favorite is in the little town of Mesilla ... "Calle de Nuestra de la
- Senorita de Guadalupe." Huge sign ... twice as high as a normal street sign.
- Is there anything longer in the United States (Mexican street names describing
- entire battles, i.e. Avenida de Revolucion de 14 Junio de 1874 de Juarez y
- Muertos con Borracherrenos y Mujers Gordo Solidaridad y excepted).
-
- --
- Dan Tasman dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
- molson@rever.nmsu.edu
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