Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <248@gymble.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:51:32 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.248 Posted: Wed Aug 14 00:51:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 01:14:15 EDT References: <268@inuxm.UUCP> <8505@watarts.UUCP> <333@baylor.UUCP> <314@tove.UUCP> <225@gymble.UUCP> <3468@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 33 > From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > Subject: Re: bizarre place names > Message-ID: <3468@dartvax.UUCP> > > There is also the sign somewhere around Baltimore MD for: > > North East > Rising Sun > > Two distinct towns, I believe... ``Rising Sun'' is indeed a town in Maryland. It is, if newspaper accounts are to be believed, a hotbed of Klu Klux Klan activity. I don't know of any town in Maryland called ``North East'', but ``Rising Sun'' is north-east of Baltimore, which may explain the sign. Also near Baltimore, in the Golden Ring area (how's that for strange) there's ``Yellow Brick Road''. About ten miles east-northeast of Baltimore is ``Aero Acres'', a residential area where all the streets have names like: ``Right Wing'', ``Left Aileron'', ``Fuselage'', ``Altimiter Court'', etc. It was built during WWII by the Glenn L. Martin plant, to house their employees who were furiously building planes for the war effort. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred