Psycho Path Voted Wackiest Street Name

[kurth]

... Mitsubishi Motors sponsored the poll on the Web site http://www.TheCarConnection.com and more than 2,500 voters cast their ballots during a week of voting that ended this month. Winners were announced Friday. "Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names," said Web site publisher Paul Eisenstein. "Our panel had a difficult time narrowing several hundred down to the 10 our readers voted on. "But we learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere."

In first place was Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich., followed by Heather Highlands, Pa.'s, Divorce Court in second and Tennessee's Farfrompoopen Road in third. Eisenstein said all the roads were verified, although some are private and hard to find.

The complete top 10 list included:

10. Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, Tenn.
9. The intersection of Count and Basie in Richmond, Va.
8. Shades of Death Road in Warren County, N.J.
7. Unexpected Road in Buena, N.J.
6. Bucket of Blood Street in Holbrook, Ariz.
5. The intersection of Clinton and Fidelity in Houston
4. The intersection of Lonesome and Hardup in Albany, Ga.
3. Farfrompoopen Road in Tennessee (the only road up to Constipation Ridge)
2. Divorce Court in Heather Highlands, Pa.
1. Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060227/ap_on_fe_st/odd_street_names

[silverweb]

1. LOL

Too funny! This one's a keeper.

:D

[KamaAina]

2. And next year's winner is...

5. The intersection of Clinton and Fidelity in Houston

(drum roll) ...the intersection of Bush and Leavenworth in San Francisco!!

[Gabi Hayes]

3. fuck THEM! see number 5 on list

how about the intersection of Bush and Coward?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Ahhhh, The Number Of Times I Got Me Some On Shades Of Death Road.

Greattttttt place to tell the ghost stories and scare the ladies LOL We used to go there all the time back in the day.

[Mythsaje]

5. I seem to remember "Harm's Way"

in Sacramento, I think it was.

Thought that one was rather weird.

[northofdenali]

6. Someone should take street signs from #5 and stick it up

Mitsubishi's carburetor.

Although we do have Loose Moose Loop, Line Drive, Lois Lane and Yellow Snow Road not too far from my house.

[CottonBear]

7. There's a Lois Lane near my office and there's an Easy Street in a

public housing complex in my city. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

8. I once lived on Shady Lane..often got mail addressed...Shady Lady

[Coyote_Bandit]

9. The corner of Crouch and "P" in Bentonville, Arkansas

And then there is Pepper Sauce Alley in Calico Rock.

Funny. Thanks!

[standup]

10. How about Zzyzx Road exit, Interstate 15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx_Road

[newswolf56]

11. There's a Neat Road in rural Thurston County, Washington -- kind of...

neat -- and on a much darker note, I once argued that a walkway through the campus of the one of the colleges where I did my undergraduate work should be formally named the Socio Path, not only for its proximity to the sociology department but because of the number of rapes that routinely occurred along its forested and unlit length. The administration, however, was not amused -- particularly since they were already very unhappy we had disclosed the rapes, which of course the administrators had been trying to hush up. Another lesson (one of many) in the archtypical American use of power: don't solve the problem or cure the ill; just terrify the afflicted into silence.

(Would love to know the history of Psycho Path: maybe a place where someone like Ted Bundy lived?)

[kineneb]

12. former inhabitant of Normal St.

in Chico, CA. It was anything but...lead to CSU Chico campus.

[IDemo]

13. There is a "Frozen Dog Road" in Emmett, Idaho

Along with a "Chicken Dinner Road" in Caldwell, and a "Gayway Junction" in Fruitland.

[meganmonkey]

14. There is a 'Hiscock' in Ann Arbor

I always wanted to live on Hiscock :P

[newswolf56]

15. I just thought of three more:

The main street of Knoxville, Tennessee is Gay Street, and for a time -- many years before the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 -- the rejuvenated Gay Street shopping district was called "The Great Gay Way."

Given the above, I hardly dare report that in South Knoxville there is a Peter Blow Drive, which ends -- predictably -- in Peter Blow Circle, off of which leads the dead-end Peter Blow Court.

Then there's the main Bellingham, Washington street through the campus of Western Washington University, a place once labeled "the ultimate West Coast party school"(1) in the "hippy Mecca of the West"(2). The street name? High Street, of course.
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Bibliographical references:

(1)-This was Pantboy or Playhouse or one of the kindred magazines c. 1970 or so.
(2)-The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, sometime in the fall of 1970.