How Famous Streets Got Their Names
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Adderley Street: www.sahistory....
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Bourbon Street: www.neworleans....
Paseo de la Reforma: www.mexperienc....
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Which of these streets have you been to?
What about yonge street? Haven't been there but it's the longest street in the world, lol
I live in Bangkok but I don't go to Soi Cowboy. I did go once with a friend of mine because she was meeting a friend of hers there, and I've cut through from Sukhumvit Soi 23 to Asoke-Montri on one or two occasions. I've walked past it more times than I can guess. Another famous road in Bangkok with tourists is Khao Sarn Road which means "Milled Rice" Road. It's near another road called Dinso Road, which means "Pencil" Road because there used to be a pencil factory there. These are in the historic area of the city around Rachadamnoen Road. Rachadamnoen a word derived from Sanskrit and means "The King Travels" because it connects the original Grand Palace to the newer palace and throne hall constructed by King Chulalongkorn The Great in the early 20th Century. This king was the young prince that fans of The King And I, or Anna And The King will be familiar with. The throne hall he built is stunningly beautiful but he died just before its completion. An equestrian statue of King Chulalongkorn was erected in front of the throne hall at the top of Rachadamnoen Road and crowds pay homage to him on 23 October every year, to mark the anniversary of his death in 1910.
I think you also should’ve covered Memphis’s Beale Street
I've been to Take-Shit-Ah, but never to Tokio
In moving from Europe to Asia, you skipped over the Middle East. In Jerusalem there is a street, or perhaps a walking route of multiple streets, called Via Dolorosa, which is Latin for Way of Sorrows, believed to be the route along which Jesus walked to the cross. Since I haven’t been fortunate enough to visit that part of the world, I don’t know the official street name(s).
There are probably famous streets in other Middle Eastern countries, but I haven’t run across any of their names.
I love your pronunciation of the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, totally slaughtering the Dutch language ;)
What about “Takeshita” coming off as “tuh-kees-tuh”?
Or “Emperatriz” coming off as “Emp-er-ee-chuh”?
Often, it just seems like Patrick gets intimidated by the word’s appearance and says “screw it.”
Funny indeed. English speakers don't think of Dutch's cognate connection with English. Oudzijds (old-side's/oldside) achter (after/behind/rear/back) burg (bury/burg/town) wal (wall), thus literally "Oldside('s) Afterburoughwall" in contrast to the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal or Newside('s) Foreburoughwall
This makes me think of my old boss's muddling up of the English menu in the restaurant with his "weeds butter" which should have been "herb butter" or "wild herb butter", and anyway without the s as this is a basic English grammar convention. When a noun is used as an adjective. Otherwise it needs to be in the genitive/possessive form with an 's.
I think Sherlocks Holmes's address was 221B Baker Street.
You’re correct
Name Explain: doesn't talk about Broadway
NY: *angry Fuhgeddaboudit noises*
Simple. It's a very wide road.
It can't get more obvious than that, being an English settlement.
The Reeperbahn in Hamburg is named after an old word for the ropes used to tie ships down that were made there as the ropemakers needed a long straight lane to lay them out. It essentially means ropewalk.
Because of that connection to the port there were many sailors around looking for some companionship, so it evolved into a redlight district, today it's also that, but not ruled by open organized crime anymore, and it also offers other nightlife and entertainment locations, so it's a huge tourist attraction
Just a note Sherlock Holmes' address was 221b not 22b. Love the videos though keep em coming Pat :)
A street in Seattle became famous not for its name but its nickname.
Yesler Way was named for Yesler's mill, which used to be located up a steep hill from the old downtown area, Pioneer Square. Back when the city was still a frontier town, they would slide logs down the hill from the mill to the docks over skids made of wood, so the street acquired the nickname of Skid Road. And being down by the docks, it became a somewhat unsavory area with lots of saloons and cheap flop houses, where the down and out drunks would hang out.
Eventually "down on Skid Road" (often misnamed as Skid Row) , or "on the skids", came to mean someone who was down on their luck, destitute, and living as a homeless drunk in the worst part of town.
And after a large number of people passed through Seattle on their way to Alaska and the Yukon during the 1899 gold rush, the expression was carried worldwide.
Cool. Similar story for Skid Row in Vancouver, B.C.
In my hometown in Central America, the main street is actually called Avenida Independencia. But its extension to the highway is called Bulevar Los 44, which is kind of a weird name (meaning Boulevard of the 44). It's actually in reference of 44 men who died in battle that was fought in town. Some time ago, a president wanted to overthrow the government and become dictator for life. His fort was in my home town and when he got his army ready, the towns people ambushed them. The entire town fought them with whatever they had, from pistols to kitchen knives to just boards with nails. Somehow, they defeated this corrupt army and the country was saved. But in the battle, 44 civilians lost their lives, and they are the ones being referred to on the street's name. When I was growing up, each lamp post had a plaque with the name of one of the 44 men, but they are faded or gone now.
Lombard Street, as you referenced, was named after the street in Philadelphia, which in turn was named after Lombard Street in London. Apparently, during the Rennaissance a group of moneylenders were known as Lombards and were centered on that street in London.
Probably Mumbai’s most infamous street is Falkland Road, by the locals also often referred to as “F***land road” and you can now guess what type of “services” are most infamously offered there ...
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Imagine if you were named after privet drive
In Melbourne we have ‘Little’ for all of the main streets in the city. Little Collins, Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale follow each Main street. Also, going the other way, we have 4 streets that all go ‘King Street, William Street, Queen Street and Elizabeth Street’, spelling out King William, Queen Elizabeth. Also, Bono was singing about NYC as they have numbers as names mostly.
You're going to love this one- There's this street, really close to the place I grew up on. The name of the street comes from this guy, just your normal homie, who had a girlfriend living in that street back in the 60s, when the whole neighbourhood was still being constructed.
So, home-boy was due to go to his military service (it was obligatory back on the day), and he wanted to keep in contact with his girlfriend, but how the neighbourhood was really new, her street didn't have a name yet.
What out hero did? He went with a friend and a ladder and put up his own name as the street name, and it just stuck up.
30 years later, as I was growing up, the street had kept the name of this random guy who just wanted to keep in contact with his girlfriend.
Oudezijds Achterburgwal means something like "rear defense wall on the old side". There is also an Oudezijds Voorburgwal ("front defense wall on the old side") and a Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal ("front defense wall on the new side").
There also used to be a Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal ("rear defense wall on the new side") but it has since been renamed Spuistraat.
For Ireland:
Dublin's main street is O'Connell Street named after Irish liberator Daniel O'Connell. Grafton Street is named after a Duke of Grafton who owned land in the area
The main street in the real capital (Cork) is St Patrick's Street. I don't think an explanation is needed here! Some locals give it the name "Pana"
Interestingly, Main Street in Cork City isn't the main street today. It was the main street in medieval times when today's most important streets were river channels.
The name Cork comes from the Irish word "Corcaigh" meaning Marsh. Today the city centre is located on an island between 2 channels of the River Lee. Many former river channels still lie under some streets.
you forgot to mention that nearly every town has a Church Street. Chapman's Peak Drive is a well-known sight-seeing spot just South of Cape Town (the scenic coastal road links Cape Town to Noordhoek on the Western side of the Cape Peninsula). Chapman's Peak's western flanks have a near-vertical drop for hundreds of meters, and the winding road clings to the side of the mountain. Johannesburg also has a very famous fictional street, known as 7 de Laan (7th Avenue), the Soapie of the same name is situated in the fictional Hillside neighborhood of Johannesburg, the real street seen only in the opening credits of the show is of 7 de Laan in the suburb of Melville.
I must say I'm somewhat disappointed that you didn't cover the "Watling street" :P :P it is quite old and very interesting! great channel mate!
All of the main roads that run length-ways in Melbourne's CBD have 'little' streets next-to them - Flinders/ Little Flinders; Collins/ Little Collins; Bouke/ Little Bourke Street; Lonsdale/ Little Lonsdale Street. The idea was the glossy shop fronts would be on the main streets and then horse and cart deliveries were made to the businesses from the 'little' street at the back. Now though, the Little Streets are the considered the 'hip' part of Melbourne with the lane-ways being the next-level up in hip-ness! The rule of thumb is that the more tucked away a bar/ coffee place is the better it is going to be. That said, the Eastern end of Collins Street is known as the Paris End partly due to its 2nd empire style architecture (which Melbourne has a lot of) and its 'boulevard' like style (though with tram tracks in the middle of the road).
There is a town in the state of Tasmania, Australia, called Doo Town. There are only about 230 inhabitants. People took to putting name plates on their houses, with 'Doo' as part of the name. This began before the town was named.
Examples - Da Doo Ron Ron, Yabba Dabba Doo, Just Doo It, Love Me Doo.
See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Town
I just stopped reading sherlock holmes and this video's here
What about bridges? Here in Brisbane we have The Go Between Bridge which is name after the band The Go Betweens but also it goes between 2 parts of Brisbane either side of the river.
I’ve got a book coming in the post that explains the street names of Kuala Lumpur. Interesting!
Sunset Boulevard in L.A. originally got that name because it only went a short distance from downtown into Hollywood, and did run from east to west, or vice versa.
However, since then, it's been extended, so that it runs all the way from Downtown LA (DTLA) to the Pacific Ocean, and parts of it west of West Hollywood once they hit Beverly Hills and beyond are so twisty and surrounded by mountains that the sunset is not directly viewable down the street.
That doesn't happen again until it hits Santa Monica, which is a city independent of L.A. County, and on the other side of the Santa Monica Mountains.
A street near me is 'Beszant Street' [Merrylands, New South Wales - a suburb of Sydney, Australia]. I'd often wondered about this name, you prompted me to search, and I found the answer. [Google maps lists this street alone using the name 'beszant']
[This interesting and unusual name is either a metonymic occupational name for a banker or money lender, one who dealt in gold coins, or else a nickname for a rich man! It derives from the Old French 'besan', Middle English 'besant', a gold coin, so called because the original 'Byzaneius' were minted at Byzantium, thus it is probable that the name received some impetus from the Crusades - according to www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Beszant]
I had no idea San Francisco’s Lombard street was named after Philly’s!
Just one minor correction in spelling: it's Paseo de la Reforma, it's still written with an o, just like when you wrote Paseo de la Emperatriz.
And it's usually a nice place to visit this time of year with the usual huge decorated skulls that are placed along the street, but sadly this year, they got taken down before November 2nd because people didn't follow the rules of keeping their distance from others.
Total anglo-mispronunciation of Takeshita was an inside joke in our family.
"OK, as soon as we get home, dad has to meet with a certain Japanese gentleman. Mr. Takeshita. Dibs on the upstairs bathroom."
Really no mention of Promenade de Anglais in Nice and Boulevard de la Croisette Cannes
Buchered those names hard
What's with the street "Reeperbahn" in Hamburg or the "Kurfürstendamm" (often shortened to "Ku'damm") in Berlin?
I'm from Philly. Lombard is a simple straight street in the Center City (old) part of the city.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street_(Philadelphia)
Are Little Name Streets a uniquely Australian thing because i know of some in Adelaide too and at least 1 in sydney. Didn't seem unusual to me growing up but now i have no idea
Came here to say exactly this! I’ve seen several all over the country and it never occurred to me that it was an Australian thing...
8:36 If you're traveling west on Sunset at sunset, you will not be able to see a thing but glare and bumpers. No mountains that way to block the sun. It's harsh. Same is true on pretty much any street or highway, though.. the mountains are to the north.
They used to call me Soy Cowboy in college.
With or without the cow?
@@jakubpociecha8819 OUCH
@@femmesammy8768 My reaction to the comment above mine was the exact same
@@jakubpociecha8819 STOP HE'S ALREADY DEAD
@@femmesammy8768 Yeah I guess you're right,there's no point in beating a dead horse
name explain: dosnt mention armory square
syracuse: angry snow noises
What, no Pennsylvania Ave. In DC? Or my city's most famous thoroughfare, State St, a k a "that great street" in the lyrics of "Chicago".
I knew you'd talk about Paseo de la Reforma!!! And yes, it's still called "Paseo"
Is the street on 8:04 the inspiration behind a similar street in GTA San Andreas?
I'm referring to the safe house over a similar winding street, in San Fierro, close to Chinatown.
Almost assuredly. San Fierro was based off of San Francisco, which is where Lombard Street (the winding one) is located.
Review the avenues and streets of Santo Domingo. They have names of foreign dignitaries.
One of the most famous streets in the US - DC's Pennsylvania Avenue. For a similar reason as how Downing Street is famous. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the address of the White House.
As far as I know, the streets in Ulan Bator have no names.... at least they hadn't when a friend lived there about 20 years ago. Maybe that changed as it did in Amman about 30 years ago (but almost none is using them except tourists).
You forgot the best one. In Glasgow, an entire Street was renamed to Nelson Mandela place because at the time the South African Consulate was there and Nelson Mandela was in prison, so whoever suggested it thought that they ought to be reminded of him whenever they received their post.
Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street not 22
I would have assumed "Lt Collins" was Lieutenant Collins not Little Collins and confuse locals when asking for directions.
I had hoped to get an explanation of the Ginza, but this was otherwise great
All the streets in my quasi famous town are named after pilots who landed here. (2 exceptions)
Where is easy street? I want to be on that street
There is a Easy Street in Bridgewater, New Jersey. It's one of the Easy Streets out there.
Antartica technically has a highway, but it's for penguins.
Interestingly, both of Israel's two most famous streets -Allenby street in Tel Aviv, and Balfour street in Jerusalem- are named after British people.
I would have mentioned Via Dolorosa
Fun fact about 221B Baker street, it didn't exist until the 1930's
Does anyone live on Downing St. besides the PM and the PM's family? If it's a row of connected houses, it seems really odd to me that the PM might have neighbors right on the other side of the wall. (Imagine if the White House in the US was like that? No way.)
I think the houses around are for other important political position holders. Like I think next door is the Chancellor of the Excheckers house.
@@Nikki-tx6kh oh, cool, that makes sense. Thanks!
There is also EASY Street.😷✌️
Don’t forget Sesame Street
4:29 is that Mumbai? At first glance I thought it was Kuala Lumpur
Oudezijds Achterburgwal [aodəzɛits ɑχtərbYrxʋɑl]. Your pronunciation was... not entirely correct, but also not bad for a non-Dutch.
Also: 'oude' does mean 'old', but I think you forgot to mention that 'zijde' means 'side', so 'oudezijds' = 'of the old side'.
Downing Street, named after Stewart Downing
Fidel's Cafe? Huh I guess that's where he resurrected
He’s everywhere.
I am related to Sir George Downing. He is my uncle. He is also Aaron Burr’s uncle.
If anyone would try to make roads in cities more messy they would not be successful
I have hopes that lakeshore drive or another chicagoan street in this video
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carlot of belgium ? charlotte of belgium you mean :)
it pains my ears when i hear someone say "melBORN" 🇦🇺🤦🏻♂️
the last bit of Melbourne sounds like bin or burn (if you pronounce it with a silent r)
Pihlajakatu
Los Angeless. Not Los Angeleez. Christ.
Red light districted
Oh come on, Patrick. By now you're not even trying to pronounce anything right, you're just throwing random syllables in words! :P
Chicago massasoit