Suggest Street Names Please.

[lindaetterlee]

I've nearly finished laying down the decor and homes for my new Ellington Township. Now i need street names to go back to name the homes. Anyone have any suggestions.

I don't want anything that really sways to one gender or the other. I would like normal but yet unique names. Anyone know what i mean? Because All i am coming up with is main street. 1st 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. lol

[vilia]

Ideas:

Trees e.g. Oak, Elm, Pine
Famous explorers e.g. Flinders, Stuart, Cook (these are just Australian examples)
Famous inventors e.g. Edison, Bell, Wright, Deere
Wines e.g. Merlot, Shiraz, Cabernet, Pinot
Rivers e.g. Rhine, Seine, Danube, Elbe, Rhone (these are just European examples)


I've just done some houses on one street named after a roman emperor - when I get the energy, I'll finish off the rest of the Julio-Claudians. Personally, I might do a series of houses/streets named after famous poisoners after I've done my romans - but then I'm odd.

[J. M. Pescado]

Why not name your streets after MATYians?

[Roux]

"Ellington" makes me think of Duke Ellington and jazz.  If it were my neighborhood, I'd name streets after jazz legends like Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Wynton Marsalis, etc.

Dammit, now you've inspired me - I may have to use this in one of my own future neighborhoods. 

[Ancient Sim]

OK, I'm going to sound really retarded now, but how do you name streets?  Do you just add it to the house name or what?  I tend to give my houses names associated with the residents, so would I not be able to do that if I named the streets?  Would I have to put something like 101 Ancient Street, rather than Broke Barracks?  Or is there a facility to put Broke Barracks, 101 Ancient Street?  I am really confused now.

[Simsbaby]

I wish you could make custom signs that get layered over the road like in Simcity.

[vilia]

It would show up as 'Broke Barracks, 101 Ancient Street' instead of

'Broke Barracks
101 Ancient Street'

[TaWanda]

 How about the ever popular Sherwood Forest theme? I think it's a law that every American town have at least one Robin Hood Lane 
 Our downtown has streets named after all the early presidents...

[cwieberdink]

Why not name your streets after MATYians?

A creative idea!      

C

[Jelenedra]

Where I live streets go alphabetical then numerical and then back again. Makes it really easy for newbies.

Anyways, Memorial, Sheridan, Mingo, Garnett, Yale, Lewis, Cincinnati, Peoria our some of the major streets.

[ZiggyDoodle]

Here's a few from our local north woods phone book:

Champlain Avenue
Trillium Trail
Island Drive
Brentwood Drive
Peanut Hill Road
Pine Briar Lane
Juniper Court
Birch Manor Drive
Artesia Beach Drive
Berrywine Road
Shore Orchid Road
West Shore Drive
Prudence Parkway
Whipperwill Way
Cherry Creek Road
Foothills Trail
Balsam Street
Beech Road
Marquardt Road
Campfires Trail
Blue Heron Place
Birch Valley Drive
Willows Road
White Pine Drive
Whispering Pines Court
Clearwater Court
Timberline Trail
Swift Deer Trail
Ironwood Road
Breezy Lane
Aspen Commons
Bent Tree Drive
Fairway Court
Kingfisher Court
Goldenrod Drive
Woody Bridge Road
Pettifour Shores
Honey Dew Lane
Whitehouse Trail
Maple Valley Road
Fallbrook Court
Fantasy Drive
Silverwood Trail
North Straits Highway
Bob White Way
Whitetail Road

[MaximilianPS]

the great musician too !!
Rossini (he is born in my town ) Bheetoven, Verdi, Bach & C.

[Ancient Sim]

It would show up as 'Broke Barracks, 101 Ancient Street' instead of

'Broke Barracks
101 Ancient Street'

So how do I get it to show up as two separate lines?

[Chienne]

You've gotten a lot of good suggestions, but I'd ask -- what do you like?

If you like a particular sport, you can name streets after players (some sports have famous male players AND famous female players, such as golf and tennis).

If you like a particular style of music, you can call streets after musicians or songs.

Characters from your favorite books/movies/TV shows?

Places you've lived in the past?  Places you'd like to visit?

The names of all your friends?

I like science, so my university usually has Newton, Edison, Einstein, etc. halls. :-)  I'm thinking of naming my streets after moon locations.

[Ambular]

In my old home town we had lots of tree names and Native American tribe names, as well as names of the founding fathers of the town.  And variations on the names of the Great Lakes (I live in Michigan.)  And of course Presidents and famous political figures--there was a big debate some years ago when they changed the name of one of the main roads from 24th St. to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

[Metalkatt]

It would show up as 'Broke Barracks, 101 Ancient Street' instead of

'Broke Barracks
101 Ancient Street'

So how do I get it to show up as two separate lines?

You can't.  It doesn't work like that.  I do this with my street names, too.  Before I settle down on any families at all, I always lay out the lots and name them appropriately.  I usually draw out a little diagram with the names and odd/even sides to help me in case I get interrupted.  Then again, I'm such a media whore that I use names from movies and video games.  Pirate's Cove, Sparrow Walk, Turner Pass, Hyuga Lane, Valentine Road, Cardinal Street, things like that.

[starrling]

I'm partial to the lovely and quaint names of streets in the UK (of course, I'm partial to most anything from the UK).  Here are a couple of nice lists:

http://knowledgeoflondon.com/streetnames.html
http://www.maybole.org/history/books/CarricksCapital/streets.htm
http://www.brand-dd.com/burntisland/streets.html

And each of my "towns" have to have a High Street, where all the businesses are

[lindaetterlee]

I love all the suggestions. I think I am going to use a bunch off the UK list mixed with the some of the famous Jazz players. And possible a street in the slum part of the hood for one very special Matyville Sim. *grins*.

I will try and post a pic of Ellington Township later.  It is coming along quite nicely. Once i finish the mainhood. i have to go and work on Waters Edge. and Endless Winter. Both of these are my Vacation hoods. Waters Edge is a beach hood, and Endless winter is like the north pole. (with a custom santa's house and various winter themed shops, including a christmas tree farm.)

[ElfPuddle]

I just must add the two I love to play with...
Alphabet Street (Prince, anyone?)
Sesame Street (123 is the home of Big Bird, but I've forgotten where Bert & Ernie live.)

[lindaetterlee]

lol Elf. I can only imagine what "Bert and Ernie" do in their spare time

[vilia]

You could name them after painters e.g. Monet, Vemeer, Renoir etc

[liegenschonheit]

I usually name a neigborhood something thematic, then name the streets something to do with that theme.

So if I had a neighborhood called "montmartre" then I could do street names based on parisian landmarks, artists that lived in that district, popular things during that time frame, etc. I think it adds for a wider variety of streetnames, while retaining a certain continuity.

[Chienne]

Good ideas, liegenschonheit!

[paranoidandroid]

I have a lot of city maps and I like to pick names from the indexes.  I grew up in a very Catholic town that had street names like Fatima Street, Lisieux Drive, Lourdes Avenue, St Patrick Street, Notre Dame Avenue.  Around here (E. Ontario) there's almost always a King Street, a Queen Street, or some street named after royalty--Prince Arthur, King Charles, Princess Louise, Queen Elizabeth, etc.  Plus names of important foreigners like Sydenham, Brock, Wolfe, Johnson, Hull, Dalhousie, and Durham.

[Tyyppi]

Murder Street! Street of Eternal Suffering! Well, maybe not...

I had problems with coming up with good street names too, but after watching how my sims behave, I decided to name my streets after vegetables.