Atlanta, GA street name generator

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Pick one word from each column
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New Old North South East West	Peachtree	Industrial Battle Ridge Hills Corners Dunwoody	Road Parkway Boulevard Avenue Street Place Way Lane Walk Drive Circle	NE NW SE SW

It's okay to include from both the first column and fifth column in the same name - names like "West Peachtree Street NW" do in fact exist. I'm not sure I got everything for the middle column, so if you see something I've missed, let me know.

Note: "Peachtree Industrial" cannot technically be generated from this chart, but appears to be a real name for a small road near (but not the same as) Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, according to Google Maps.

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[cthulhia]

win.

[warlord-mit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds about right from my visits.

[charolastra00.livejournal.com]

So true. I went to high school on one of these streets and to get there had to go via another Peachtree variation. I'm fairly sure my boyfriend lives on a completely different Peachtree downtown and has to navigate Peachtree Industrial to get there from my house.

[kaasirpent]

LOL! I live in Atlanta, and that is spot on. Well done, sir. :)

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Oh dude, yes! To be fair, we name a lot of streets the same things over and over here.

Example: Waltham Road in Lexington is the road to Waltham Center, and thus Lexington Street in Waltham is the main road to the Battle Green in Lexington. They're the same road in adjacent towns. When people commuted by horse and cart, this was an important detail. If you're new to Boston, these town borders are a blur.

I was juiced that you mentioned Dunwoody. My previous employer's headquarters is on Ashford Dunwoody Road in Atlanta. I wouldn't have thought about that had I not been filling out the tax forms this week. (Yeah, it's sad -- I did all the math in late January but I had to wait until my HC proof arrived last week.)

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

::snickers::

North Carolina was very bad about this, too. A favorite spot was where Airport Drive crossed with Airport Boulevard in Chapel Hill.

Eventually, people noticed that this was confusing (particularly since the airport there is tiny and not used for, well, anything) and renamed it. It is now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Not to be confused with the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Raleigh.

At the time of the renaming, there was an editorial (I forget which paper ran it, but probably the Tarheel Gazette) about the great opportunity here to promote awareness of black culture and local history by naming the boulevard instead after one of any number of local black heroes rather than naming it after one of the two activists that everyone already knows about.

The general response of the local public (based on letters written to the editor) was that anyone who didn't want to name a road after Martin Luther King Jr. was racist scum.

This is the sort of thing that fascinates me... when it's far, far away and happening in someone else's city.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

In the northern suburbs of Detroit, there is South Boulevard East, South Boulevard West, East South Boulevard and West South Boulevard.

In Detroit itself, there is Outer Drive, which rings the old city boundaries. Lots of 90 degree turns, so if you aren't careful, you can find yourself blocks off Outer Drive before you know it.

There are also the Mile and Half-mile roads - some of the Mile roads are really X Mile (such as 8 Mile, Detroit's northern boudary). Others (and I think all the Half-miles) have regular street names, but everyone refers to them by the mile designation. Then there's Little Mack and Big Mack...

Very minor suggestions

[(Anonymous)]

Also needs, in various columns: Chapel, Ferry, Paces, Ponce de Leon, and Mill :)