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Mapping America's Most Embarrassing Addresses
Wednesday, November 28, 2012, by Rob Bear
http://curbed.com/archives/2012/11/28/mapping-americas-most-embarrassing-addresses.php
Yes, four lucky families share a cul-de-sac called Broomrape Lane.
Every city has its coveted streets, blocks, and addresseslike Park and Fifth Avenues in New York, Broadway in San Francisco, Chicago's Gold Coastbut this map has nothing to do with those storied bastions of taste. Instead, this is an exploration of the far from prestigious, the sometimes mortifying, the always entertaining worst addresses in America. Welcome to a world where directions include "take a left at Poopoo Place" and "go down Psycho Path."
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MineralMan
(146,351 posts)It's a member of the yarrow family. I'm betting the people who live there know that. Knowledge is a wonderful thing. If it weren't for that, this would be funny. But, there is that, so it's not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomrape
gcomeau
(5,764 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)who lived on Lois Lane. Funny enough.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)I should have taken a camera to take pics of all the foreclosed houses on them..