Pickles by Brian Crane for January 07, 2012

Yup, used to be a Forest St. too.

Earl is taking a break from Opal today.

oh,oh. Then that must mean that the Planet Earth Emporium used to be….

Yeah, I just love developments with pretentious, hopeful names… Skyhawk Ranch, Riverview Estates, Cherryhill Manor…. most of the construction having destroyed whatever scenic features were there before.

And even had they incorporated the natural attributes of the land, most would be more appropriately named Cow Pasture Acres or Apple Orchard Flat.

I used to live near Suicide Ridge, I hate to think what they bulldozed there!

In Pasadena, TX, they named a couple consecutive streets after fuit…like strawberry & blueberry. Strawberry fields for ever indeed.

At least ya’ll have fruit and trees. I have battlefields. Bull Run Road, Shiloh Church Road. Haven’t seen a Gettysburg Avenue down here though.

i live in the middle of town. on “rolling hills drive”. you drive on it. : /

Great distress here. I grew up across the highway from a peach orchard that was bulldozed to make way for a mall at Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Over the years, the bulldozers razed entire neighborhoods, too.

An interesting turn of events in a new housing development near us. A whole mature olive orchard was removed before the land was plowed and compacted. I didn’t see this and assumed the trees were cut and chipped. Nope, just as the home-building was nearing completion, here came big flatbed trucks with all those same trees in nursery boxes. The developer had paid a nursery to box them up and take care of them until they could plant them again. They were re-installed artfully around the perimeter of the location and near the entrance. You would think they had been there all the time. I have to say, they look great and it seems they will survive the transplant, which process took several years. No, the name of the subdivision does not have OLIVE in it, but I thought it should. The skeptic in me wondered if they got some gubmint grant for being green and saving trees.

damn developers!

Osprey Run is nowhere near water, Panther Trace hasn’t seen a panther in 50 years, but the Down Yonder mobile home park is aptly named because it has a large percentage of Canadians that stay 6 months each year.

Yeah, damn developers!

Then they “Paved paradise and put up a parking lot”.

That’s a shame… Destroying land to build a shopping centre.

xxx

I live on a barrier island named Wildwood … named for the thick forest that once grew here … guess how many trees grow here now?

How about “Aroma dr” for the main road into the subdivision built over the old BKK landfill?

This reminds me of “Twin Pines/Lone Pine” Mall in “Back To The Future.”

Lots of funny street names abound in the world. Take a look at just a few at http://www.freakstreets.com/

That explains 7 Oaks Shopping Mall.

In city planning, the Dutch are masters. In planning new developments, they group streets around famous people like musicians, scientists, artists, so that strangers can be immediately connected to a section of the development wherethe address they seek can be easily located. All without a GPS!

I used to live on South Maple Avenue, it was lined with Sycamores not a maple in sight go figure.

In Jenny Jump State Forrest there is Shades of Death road.(Warren Co NJ)

The street I live on is called Chenoweth..

Named after a Ohlone Indian I suppose.

Wonder if he’s buried in the nearby peach orchard.

Censored again! I posted an innocuous little note about how towns along the Texas & Pacific railroad have streets parallel to the tracks numbered – on both sides – thus two firsts, seconds, thirds, etc., in high numbers as much as a mile apart. Streets perpendicular are trees (whether indigenous or not). Shorter streets have actual names.

Checking back on the unlikely event it engendered comment, I find someone, not I, deleted it.

“The farmer had a crazy idea about breeding pine trees…”