There is a street in Fort Wayne named for a long time mayor, Harry Baals.
Off topic, as she does not have a street named after her to the best of my knowledge, the First Lady of Texas was philanthropist Ima Hogg. She never married, but if she had married into the family of Texas grocers H-E-B, she would have been Ima Hogg Butt.
Gabby Street Boulevard is in Joplin, Missouri.?ÿ Gabby Street was a professional baseball player who was on the same team as Walter "Freight Train" Johnson.?ÿ His greatest fame came from the following incident.
"Gabby Street was perhaps better known for catching a ball dropped from atop the Washington Monument on August 21, 1908. Senators fans Preston Gibson and John Biddle had made a wager of $500 on whether the feat could be done. After all, the ball would travel 555 feet, and at a high rate of speed. Gabby was never one to be deterred from a challenge and set his place at the foot of the monument. Gibson and Biddle climbed to the top with a basket full of baseballs, and constructed a wooden chute so the ball would slide to arc away and clear the wide base of the enormous structure. The first 10 baseballs caromed off the base of the monument, so the chute was discarded and the pair of fans took turns throwing the ball from their perch. Gabby, dressed in street clothes, with arms outstretched over his head as if to corral a pop fly, made the successful catch on the 15th attempt. It was calculated that the baseball had picked up 300 pounds of force by the time it landed in Street??s mitt, which almost hit the ground from the impact. ??I didn??t see the ball until it was halfway down,? said Gabby. ??It was slanting in the wind and I knew it would be a hard catch.?
Dadeville, Alabama - This Ain't It Rd. ?????ÿ
300 pounds of force
The force is indeterminate at the instant it hits the mitt, and can't be calculated from readily knowable information, as it depends on how much the glove resists versus yields and how much the ball deforms.?ÿ
You could calculate an average force needed to stop the ball in the distance the glove moved after impact, given the ball's speed before impact and mass. Speed would depend on any vertical component of the throw (slightly), the height it fell, and mostly its air resistance vs weight.
@larry-best - A friend of ours has a sister who has lived in St. Thomas for 40 years and is married to a Bryan. I guess that family name is very common on the island, as is my last name although we have no kin there.
Somewhere around here is an intersection of Thisa Way and Thata Way.
Now try giving someone directions in that neighborhood: First you turn off Bubba Boulevard and go Thisa Way, not Thata Way, but Thisa Way...
It could be the new "Who's On First?"
Old Fred's Road is a dirt road down in a dusty corner of a sleepy county not far from here.?ÿ Story goes Old Fred was a cantankerous mule that stood guard in the road and wouldn't allow anyone to pass unless they paid up an offering of some oats or a carrot or apple.
A lady called today about ordering a survey for their property on Harper Road.?ÿ "Which Harper Road, Ma'am", I had to ask.?ÿ She then learned that her county, the one to the east and the one to the southeast all have a Harper Road at approximately the same location within each county.?ÿ All run north and south.
Once we confirmed the correct spot, she happened to mention the name of a nearby landowner.?ÿ I said, "You must be just a little to the north of the old alfalfa pelleting mill."?ÿ She said, "Is that what that giant iron tube was for?"?ÿ She then learned a bit about alfalfa, the dehyrdator and the press mill that formed the pellet for livestock feed.?ÿ When it is freshly pressed it smells good enough to eat.............but, I've never sampled it.?ÿ Maybe in a bowl with some milk and sugar.?ÿ Nah.?ÿ I'd have to be very, very hungry.
Somewhere in Kansas one can find roads named, Last Chance, Hawaiian Beach, Frisbee, Roach and Unique.?ÿ There is even a Gravy Train Lane.
We've got some duplicate named roads around here and a few that go by several different names.?ÿ Sometimes identifying a location by phone can be a challenge.?ÿ A common conversation:
"You mean you're off of 36th. Av. south of town?"
"Yep."
"Isn't that called Burkett Rd. down there?"
"Yep.?ÿ Until you get south of the river.?ÿ There it's called Trail Rd."
"I know exactly where you're at..."
she has plenty named after her, if not a street (I haven??t looked.)
I went to see Norman Mailer give a talk at Ima Hogg auditorium at UT once. The Hoggs were rather prolific philanthropists...
A little off topic.?ÿ If you ever are in the Philly area you should visit the Amish country. I'd?ÿ recommend spending a night in Intercourse at The Inn at Kitchen Kettle.
The Inn at Kitchen Kettle, 3529 Old Philadelphia Pike, Intercourse, PA 17534
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Found it.?ÿ Head south on 36th Avenue, keep going while it's known as 8th Street, then jump over a stretch with no road to hit Burkett Road, then jump the river to get to End of Trail Road, then hang a right on Carl Stokes Road to get to the other side of Purple Heart Trail, then hang a left onto Highway 74. to keep going south.
Helps to be a local, doesn't it?
We have a development with a street named after the landowner "Harebell". And we have a jokester draftsman who snuck in the name "Hairball" on the recorded plat. No one in county planning caught it
There is a small hamlet just down the road from my office called "NO PLACE". Looks good on the road sign!
54.8739N -1.6619W
There are about five thousand streets with those names all over the place in FL. ?????ÿ
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For the city folk here, the definition of barrow:?ÿ A?ÿbarrow?ÿis a male pig that has been castrated or rendered incapable of reproducing before he reaches sexual maturity. Castration usually takes place while the pig is very young, at about two or three weeks of age. If a male pig is allowed to become sexually mature and then is castrated, he is called a stag.
