Re: Odd Names and Places

06/06/23 - posted by Tim Dineen

GuernEEville is like the spelling of dilemNa or the extra N on the end of HermanN's deli. Greater minds than mine have tried to figure out the what and the why...

I LOVE the story about Quinn and Tara! Your father and mine would have been fast friends!

The alphabetical streets were all named after Spanish explorers and the like, but I guess they couldn't find a Q... The Parkside Realty Company did a lot of things - making up a name is the least of them! Heck, they sold off land that had been labelled as uninhabitable because of sand and fleas!