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Detroit_stylin
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 7:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This was a thread that I did a couple of years ago, however let's see if some of the newer members of the forum can ID if the know some of the streets in the D named after states as well as their location...
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Esp
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wyoming, Nevada, Montana
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Motorcitymayor2026
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wisconsin
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Jiminnm
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Washington Blvd, that grand throughway downtown.
Georgia, site of AL Holmes, my elementary school.
Alaska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Wyoming - all clustered just north of Tireman near Dearborn.
Virginia Park, Delaware & Pennsylvania on the lower east side.

I'll come up with more.
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Rrl
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Uh, how about Michigan, from CM to the Dearborn border.
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Esp
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:26 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Michigan Ave
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Rrl
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esp, too slow bro, but welcome anyway.
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Hooha
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does State street count?
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Detroit_stylin
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Right about now I know about Florida street that crosses Michigan near the dearborn border, and Hawaii that crosses Livernois below Warren...

BTW correction on Michigan... it goes out MUCH farther than Dearborn's border
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Wmuchris
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Ohio Street near Grand River and Oakman
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Wmuchris
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh yeah and Wisconsin, Indiana and Ketucky Streets in the same area just a coupla blocks west of Ohio
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Livernoisyard
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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Huh? Florida crosses (meaning - continues across) Michigan? Where might the part of Florida south of Michigan be hiding?

Florida

A numbered-street question: What is the highest numbered street in Detroit, e.g., 32th Street?

If my guess is correct, it is the street on which there was a Catholic school where I once taught its fifth grade. [I haven't checked this one out, though.]
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Detroit_stylin
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Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

OK it doesnt neccessarily cros Michigan but it does terminate there. I know I see the sign everyday...lol
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 2:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

New York Street, off Cadiuex north of Mack.

There's an Ontario Street there too, but that's a province.

This is an extensive area of streets named after foreign places, like Munich and Cornwall.
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Greenolives
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Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 2:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oooh, oooh, I know some!
Arizona Ave and Dakota St. by Palmer Park, there's also an Oregon somewhere.
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Gary
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Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 4:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm going by memory so I could be mistaken, but isn't there a Maryland St. on the far east side?
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Jjw
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Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 4:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

streets named after states in Detroit: Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinios, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
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Mackinaw
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Yeah Gary, I'm suprised I missed that. It is two blocks east of Alter and runs from Jefferson near St. Ambrose church north through GPP and then into Detroit after Mack.
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Jjw
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Maryland and Alaska also--but isn't Arizona technically in Highland Park?
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Fishtoes2000
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Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 5:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

To bad Detroit doesn't have a Main Street. :-)

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