Streets named after appliances/manufacturing

[fan-of-fans]

In Topton, PA (where the former Caloric range company factory is) there is a Klein St (Klein was the original name of Caloric). Off of Klein St there is a Caloric Cirle.

In Boonville MO (former home to Toastmaster/McGraw Edison small appliances) there is an Al Bersted Dr. Al Bersted was the founder of Bersted appliances which were sold under many names and eventually became McGraw Edison and then Toastmaster.

Not related to my town, but here there is a neighborhood with all car streets. Two of them, Sunbeam St and Singer St remind me of appliances rather than cars. It helps that the two are next to each other.

In Chicago IL there is a Kenmore Ave, not sure if it is related to Kenmore appliances in any way or not.

Any others?

 

[tomturbomatic]

There is a Kenmore Plantation in Fredericksburg, VA that was a home of George Washington's sister Betty and her husband Fielding Lewis.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60824-d1832334-Reviews-Kenmore_Plantation_and_Gardens-Fredericksburg_Virginia.html

 

[goatfarmer]

Tappan Zee bridge.

 

[supersuds]

There’s a Hardwick Street in Cleveland, Tennessee.

 

[thomasortega]

Hobart St in Los Angeles.

There's also a Bissell Avenue in East LA/Whittier

 

[iej]

Two famous german appliance makers are on streets named after their own founders.

Miele
Carl-Miele-Straße 29
D-33332 Gütersloh
Germany

Robert Bosch Gmbh (Bosch)
Robert-Bosch-Platz 1
D-70839 Gerlingen
Germany

 

[norgeway]

Homan avenue

In Chicago and another street made up Homart, Sears plumbing and heating line.

 

[gizmo]

I know some car ones...

In Clayton, a suburb of Melbourne, there was a VW assembly plant and one of the adjoining streets was Kombi Road. (Kombi is the name given to Type 2 VWs in Australia, I think they are called VW Van in the USA.) Even modern VW vans are colloquially known as Kombis, though I think VW officially call them Transporters.

In Abbotsford there was a car sales yard bounded by Valiant St and Hunter St. It was an Alfa Romeo dealer when I knew it in the 1980s, but I'd assume it used to be a Chrysler dealer in the 1960s, when Chrysler Valiant was their big car and Hillman Hunter was their small car.

The Leyland factory at Zetland in Sydney lives on in the name of Leyland Grove, on the site of the former factory.

 

[askolover]

We have Saturn Parkway in Spring Hill, TN where the Saturn car plant (now Cadillac/GMC) is.  There's Mercedes drive in Tuscaloosa, AL.  Hannon Drive in Lawrenceburg, TN named after CW Hannon..the son-in-law of the founder of Murray Ohio Mfg Co, former builder of bicycles and lawnmowers right there in Lawrenceburg (I used to work there).  There was a Heil/Quaker drive in Lewisburg, TN from the furnace company.

 

[abcomatic]

Peoria, il

North Peoria has a street named after the ABC washing machine company.
Altorfer Drive. The logo stood for: Altorfer Brother's Company.

 

[blackstone]

There was a Westinghouse plant in Springfield, Mass.

but I don't think they made appliances there. However, next to its location is Eureka St., and nearby is Hobart St.

Springfield does have Duryea St. and Knox St., named for car manufacturers; and Wason Ave., named for streetcar manufacturer.

 

[paulg]

Admiral Drive, Harvard Illinois

Harvard was once home to a large Admiral electronics plant.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Radio Shack as it was initially known as Allied/Radio Shack (owned by Allied Electronics) was headquartered on Allied Drive...

Of course, I'm equally curious about how Alcoa Tennessee is home to Alcoa Steel, as the name seemed to advanced-modern to be what the town was founded as more than to have been just named after the company famous for making steel...

-- Dave

 

[tomturbomatic]

Possibly, the ALCOA  (Aluminum Company of America) plant was built after TVA brought abundant power to the area, 30s--40s, and a lot of aluminum was needed for planes and other war uses.

 

[cycla-fabric]

Westinghouse Blvd

There is a Westinghouse Blvd around the Charlotte, NC area, as I have ridden down it.

Doug

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'; color: #0000ff;">One Panasonic Way</span>...</span>

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[supersuds]

Excessive background about Alcoa...

The Alcoa Aluminum (not steel) plant in Alcoa, Tennessee was built in 1913, after the Aluminum Company of America obtained the rights to build hydroelectric dams on the Little Tennessee River. It's been said that aluminum is congealed electricity, since electric power is the most expensive variable in smelting costs. The company developed the town around the smelter. The plant was greatly expanded in the defense buildup prior to WWII. The Alcoa dams didn't have enough capacity to work the smelter year round, so Alcoa entered into a pooling agreement with TVA so they could have a steady supply of electricity.

A severe drought in 1941, BTW, caused a huge defense production crisis, with businesses across the southeast being ordered to shut off all window and sign lighting so there would be enough electricity available to keep Alcoa production rolling. At one point, the government was saying that Christmas tree lighting would be forbidden, as well.

About ten years ago, Alcoa demanded a price for electricity that TVA thought was uneconomical (details not revealed, but it would probably have been less than the cost of production) so Alcoa closed the smelter and sold the dams to an outfit called Brookfield Renewable Power. The remaining parts of the plant belong to the Alcoa spinoff Arconic, and as I understand it they make aluminum sheet for the auto industry, maybe airplanes. They used to sell a lot of sheet for cans, also.

 

[moparwash]

In Wilmerding, PA, founded by George Westinghouse as home to his Airbrake Company and as an ideal worker town, his Airbrake company, now known as Wabtec, sits in Airbrake Avenue. Other streets in Wilmerding are the requisite Westinghouse Avenue, Hermann Avenue, named for his brother, and Margurite Avenue, named for his wife. In nearby East Pittsburgh, the former Westinghouse plant is near streets of Electric, Dynamo, and Cable

 

[justjunque]

Springfield, MA

Good ones, Fred.
You beat me to Duryea. Right next to it is Stevens St. (Stevens/Duryea)
Also, over near the former armory in Springfield, is Rifle St.
Not too far from Stevens and Duryea Steeets is Hendee St.
Named for George Hendee, of early motorcycle fame. I believe their factory was on that street.
There used to be so much manufacturing in this area.
So sad that it's all gone now, and most of the once great factories are either long gone, or sitting dark, vacant, cold, and deteriorating.

Barry