Newsgroups: alt.folklore.suburban
From: Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1997/12/16
Subject: Re: Nomenclature Follies

kay.shap...@salata.com (Kay Shapero) writes:

> Local legend hath it someone from out of the area came in to map the
> place and label all the streets.  At one point, he pointed across the
> ditch and asked someone what the name of the stret over there was. the
> resident replied "Alla?" (meaning "there?") and the guy wrote it down
> as the name of the street.

What I want to know is if anyone can explain the presence of a street
named "Dan Hoey Drive" in Dexter, Michigan.  People have brought me
photographs, but I still can't help feeling a bit skeptical.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil