That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Street names typically follow a particular theme ; for example, the streets of Duffy are named after Australian dams and reservoirs, the streets of Dunlop are named after Australian inventions, inventors and artists and the streets of Page are named after biologists and naturalists.

Coronation Street became known for the portrayal of strong female characters, with characters like Sharples, Walker and Tanner, and Hilda Ogden, becoming household names during the 1960s.

Visitors starting on East Main Street, follow Jell-O Brick Road, whose stones are inscribed with the names of former factory employees.

The novels were titled with the street names Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street.

Roller Hockey ( Inline ) is referred to by many names worldwide, including Ball Hockey, Inline hockey, Roller Hockey, Longstick hockey, Deck hockey, Road hockey, Street hockey and Skater hockey depending on which region of the world in which it is played.

Regional peasantry supplied the city with food and raw materials, while the craftsmen in the city produced handicrafts, most of whom lived by the central square Stortorget or by the oldest two streets in Stockholm, the names of which still reflects their trade: Köpmangatan (" Merchant's Street ") and Skomakargatan (" Shoemaker's Street ") in the central part of the city.

These company names are listed on the upper story windows of what is now the Main Street USA section of Walt Disney World:

Also, two large tracts totaling $ 1. 5 million were sold, and smaller tracts of flatlands and cattle pastures were purchased by exotic-sounding companies such as the Latin-American Development and Management Corporation and the Reedy Creek Ranch Corporation ( Some of these names are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in the Magic Kingdom ).

This is because there was already a Main Street in Osceola County, and street names cannot be duplicated in the county.

The town centre is fairly compact and mainly focused on a wide pedestrianised High Street, housing most familiar names such as Waterstones, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, T. K.

Over the centuries the name of this exclusive and elegant street has taken on a number of different names ; Choroszcz, Nowolipie, Lipowa, Jozef Pilsudski, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, once again, to return, after the end of World War II, to its original name – Lipowa Street.

Some streets have names, such as State Street, which would otherwise be known as 100 East.

Other streets have honorary names, such as the western portion of 300 South, named “ Adam Galvez Street ” ( in honor of a local Marine corporal killed in action ) or others honoring Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., César Chávez, and John Stockton.

Some of the streets of Kingston have military names because the garrison used to be located there, e. g. Parade Street, Barrack Street and Fort Street.

Street names in Taipei were changed from their original names to Chinese names that reflected the geography of China and Kuomintang ideals.

Street routings in San Francisco are more commonly referred to by their street names rather than the route number.

While Oscar receives new names in international dubs, Sesame Street international co-productions have often created their own version of the character.

Numerous signs of Huguenot presence can still be seen with names still in use, and with areas of the main towns and cities named after the people who settled there, for instance the Huguenot District and French Church Street in Cork City, D ' Olier Street in Dublin named after a High Sheriff, and one of the founders of the Bank of Ireland.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.

As early as 1900 a Wall Street combination acquired detail patents with the intention of exacting heavy tribute from automobile manufacturers.

They range from the Soviet Embassy on Sixteenth Street, a gray shuttered pile suggesting a funeral-accessories display house, to what Congressman Rooney has called `` that monstrosity on Thirty-fourth Street '', the modern cement-and-glass chancery of the Belgians.

That wasn't too far from Fifth Street, and should allow him to make Scotty's Bar by midnight.

Mr. Phillips had only to signal from his doorway to summon aid from the ubiquitous bilingual children who played on the sidewalks of Mission Street.

In another attack, Samuel Verstandig, 41, proprietor of a food store in the 2100 block Aiken Street, told police two Negroes assaulted him in his store and stole $150 from the cash register after choking and beating him.

The division said it would be impossible to work on the line until then because of the large amount of acid sewage from jewelry plants in the area flowing through the line, heavy vehicle traffic on Eddy Street and tide conditions.

A two-family house at 255 Brook Street has been purchased by Brown University from Lawrence J. Sullivan, according to a deed filed Monday at City Hall.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Intersection of North Terrace and King William Street viewed from Parliament House, Adelaide | Parliament House, 1938.

King William Street, Adelaide | King William Street, named in honour of King William IV, looking south from North Terrace, Adelaide | North Terrace in 2006 before the extension of the tram line.

By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.

In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.

Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Three major arteries parallel to each other cut across the entire borough: Atlantic Avenue, which is a 6 lane 4 km avenue by the beachside, Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue and Barata Ribeiro / Raul Pompéia Street both of which are 4 lanes and 3. 5 km in length.

The Marx children grew up on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.

* December 9 – The world's first traffic signal lights are installed at the junction of Great George Street and Bridge Street in the London borough of Westminster.

Many sites commonly associated with London are located in the borough, including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, and 10 Downing Street.

The borough is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster around the Palace of Westminster ; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street ; and the night time entertainment district of Soho.

42nd Street is a major crosstown street on the Island and New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square.

St Thomas ' was founded in the mid-12th Century in the borough and parts of it remain at St Thomas Street ; Guy's was founded opposite this in 1725.

Hoxton to the north of Old Street was historically part of Shoreditch parish and borough and is still, often, conflated with it.

Both sites are on the Roman road Watling Street from London ( Londinium ) and St Albans ( Verulamium ) which now forms the western border of the borough.

The borough council offices and chamber are located at York House, York Street, Twickenham and in the adjacent civic centre.

Latymer Upper School, an independent co-educational school, is also in the borough, on King Street in Hammersmith.

Parts of the A503 ( Camden Road ) and A400 ( Camden High Street and Camden Street ) are designated as Red routes which are major routes into London administered by Transport for London not the borough.

The name is often applied to the areas of the borough close to Upper Street such as St Mary's, St Peter's, Barnsbury, and Canonbury, developed in the Georgian era.

Streets at the southern end of the borough start at 11th Street, as the ten streets below it have been washed out on the delicate barrier island.

The first numbers ( before the dash ) correspond to block-distances from Broadway ( on streets that run North-South ) and to the numbered streets in the borough ( example: 2nd Street, 17th Street, etc.

The trail runs northeastward from the center of the borough ( at the junction of Main Street and Church Street ) towards Califon, through a scenic area outside the borough limits, known as the Ken Lockwood Gorge.

The major thoroughfare in the borough is Main Street which connects with Monroe to the southwest and Spotswood to the northeast.