I live at the end of a dead-end street. It’s name?ARGYLE PLACE.
I like the street and I like the name. And I like the sound the name makes when I tell folk my address.
With it’s connection to the world’s rarest type of pink diamond, ARGYLE has a ring of sophistication, nay even elegance to it.
Well, that’s what I tell myself.
Time now to pull back the curtain on some other standout street names. And STANDOUT I do mean…
Psycho Path is a private road in Traverse City in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was once voted America’s most bizarre street name. Right you are there.
Picture this conversation between a visiting tourist and a Maine local:
“Hi there. Can you tell me which way to the shops?”
“Be happy to friend. Just go UPTHA ROAD.“
“Which road?”
“UPTHA ROAD“
“You mean this one?”
“Yup”
Finding it – in Southern California – is the easy part. Pronouncing it? Yeah right.
Everyone knows that RED RUM is MURDER spelt backwards. Right? So why name a street after that most famous scene from the 1980 movie THE SHINING?
Well, maybe the movie is actually NOT the inspiration for this street name.
Seeing is believing. Where? Delaware – Ohio, U.S
And I know Victoria in Australia has a Tennis Court – and not the racquet kind.
SHADES OF DEATH ROAD is a two-lane rural road, 10.8 km in length in New Jersey, U.S. It featured in an episode of the second season of the 2013 television series HAUNTED HIGHWAY. Now you know.
Does anyone else remember the television series I DREAM OF JEANIE, which ran for five seasons from 1965 – 1970?
Didn’t think so.
Good thing I do.
When a road prefers to stay anonymous. Definitely ‘under the radar’. Meaning actually very ‘above the radar’.
‘Ninth Avenue’ is so… oh, I don’t know… plain? How could it possibly standout from all the other 9th Avenues around the country?
I know! Let’s add a cute little half, up the unique factor and bring some smiles to people’s faces.
From earlier this week…
Where did you FIND these? They’re AMAZING and hilarious. Along with all the witty asides, of course.
What a creative topic! Man, Shades of Death Rd.? I would NOT live there, lol !!!
The high school I went to was called Argyll, btw. Close enough to Argyle. It was all girls but they had to go co-ed in 1983, about four years after I graduated.
Thanks for the fascinating look into signs!
Thanks for this amazing enthusiasm for this subject Stacey.
I couldn’t help myself – I looked up Argyll HS (that spelling) online and came up with these two entries –
https://www.argyleisd.com/AHS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyle_High_School
which are obviously nothing to do with the High School you attended.
But it was kind of interesting giving it a crack to see if I could track down the one you went to – like an amateur on-line detective, I guess.
You’re welcome!
And yeah, it’s fun to look things up. You wouldn’t have found it, though, ’cause I didn’t give the full name, which was: Argyll Episcopal Academy. Here it is!
https://www.campbellhall.org/alumni/welcome-home/argyll-academy
Wow.
That is so interesting.
They have really gone into documenting their history.
My High School years were spent at an all boys school – that today looks very ‘corporate’ on their website but of course back in the day had a different vibe to it – I guess you’d call it a ‘1970’s’ vibe.
https://gtoba.terrace.qld.edu.au/#home
They have all the school’s old yearbooks converted to PDF’s on this site.
My graduating year was 1983. If you click on the link below and scroll to page 37 you’ll see a very grainy B & W class photo with a person by the name of ‘Glen Donaldson’ sitting right at the end…
It’s a real time warp to be able to travel back like this, I guess…
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A3c57f553-e553-4b59-a294-bd52449a683b
Awwwww. There you are! Wow, we had a lot in common during our school days, same-sex schools and wearing those uniforms.
I think I would have been a little better socially acclimated, personally, if I’d gone to high school with boys. But then again, it was good not to have that distraction and sense of “competition” going on constantly.
So true everything you say there Stacey.