Streets named after appliances/manufacturing

[paulg]

Magnavox Way

Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I once stayed at a Ramada on Magnavox way while representing one of Magnavox's competitors.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Speaking of Vacant, Cold, and Deteorating:

There is also PACKARD (on and near where that very plant was) in Detroit...

-- Dave

 

[askolover]

There's a Rayon Drive and Rayon City near the DuPont plant in Old Hickory, TN

 

[kate1]

There’s a tiny town about fifteen miles from the city I live in that prides itself on being where Philo T Farnsworth grew up. He was one of the major contributors to the invention of television. One of the major streets there is Farnsworth Way. It runs almost the entire length of the town, parallel to the highway and runs diagonally while the other streets are laid out in a grid.

Philo Farnsworth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[appliguy]

Hey Blackstone,

The Springfield Mass. Westinghouse plant did indeed make appliances, small appliances like fans, mixers etc. PAT COFFEY

 

[askolover]

There was a Ford plant in Sheffield, Alabama for years and that area is called Ford City.

 

[blackstone]

Westinghouse plant

At one time, I had a Westinghouse fan made in Springfield. The Westinghouse plant was the site of the original WBZ radio station; later it changed to WBZA, when the parent station moved to Boston. The transmitting tower was torn down only a few years ago.

The site of the Westinghouse plant is now the CRRC railcar manufacturing plant. The Chinese company just started building railcars for Boston, with Philadelphia and Los Angeles cars in the pipeline. Largest (perhaps only) railcar plant in the U.S.

They did preserve the office building fronting on Page Blvd.

Chinese flag flying over Springfield:

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Here is KENMORE Street in Berkley, MI which starts at 12 Mile Rd. and runs to Webster Rd. bordering at the edge of Royal Oak...

Here is the corner of Cornwall (maybe known as “Cornwall Bend”) where I could get a good picture...

— Dave

 

[norgeway]

Homan ave

Homart, Tower Sears tower

 

[thomasortega]

Los Angeles area

I think I posted something here before but just in case....

Honeywell Dr. in Torrance
Bissell St. in Compton
Westinghouse Dr. in San Pedro (a tiny alley behind the Westinghouse Building)
Whirlpool Blvd. near the John Wayne airport in Irvine
Hobart St. in Hollywood (it actually cuts the city)
Amana Rd. in Calabasas
Boeing Dr. (Not appliance related) in Long Beach, behind the LGB airport
Target Way (El Segundo)
Beyond Dr. (Bed, Bath and Beyond) in Santa Monica
Apex St. in Bel Air
Bendix Ln. (the alley right behind the Bendix factory which is now a luxury apartment complex in Downtown LA
Douglas St. (I'm not sure but I think it somehow relates to Douglas (later McDonell Douglas, later merged with Boeing)
Toyota Dr. in Torrance (It's a small street right in the middle of the former Toyota headquarters complex.)
Roebuck way (a small alley right behind a Sears store that already closed, in West Hollywood

 

[gansky1]

Amana appliance company was named for the area of Iowa that was settled by German immigrants called the Amana Colonies.  They lived a secluded and nearly self-sufficient life until they decided to incorporate as a for-profit in 1934 which included the newly formed appliance company.  

 

Newton, Iowa was home to more than a few washing machine manufacturers (Automatic, One Minute, etc.) but was the headquarters for their most famous and largest manufacturer, Maytag.  The Maytag name is woven into the town, Maytag Park, event center, etc.

 

 

Amana Colonies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[jamiel]

There was a subdivision in Fenton, MO (which was the home of the Chrysler plant which went in roughly in 1965) with street names like Fury, Chrysler and Satellite.

 

[fluidriver]

Lots of streets named after cars.

In Croydon Park, South Australia.

I don’t know whether there was car assemblers in this area, but a lot of the names are from the 20s before Australia manufactured cars.

Now we only import cars, with GMH, Ford and Toyota all ceasing manufacturing in the last couple of years.

 

[vacerator]

Yes, Australian govt. has

stopped all subsidies for vehicle manufacture which were in place since roughly 1950. GM supported Holden via partnership, Ford partnered with Nissan, Mitsubishi with Chrysler, absorbing ownership in about 1981, when Chrysler was bankrupt.
AMM built Ramblers, etc under license in Port Melbourne. British Leyland had a plant there, Then came Toyota, Honda, etc. much the same as in the UK.
The button plan of the 1980's forced Holden badged Toyotas, etc. and visa versa.
You have about 23 million people, not certain how many licensed drivers on a continent where cars don't rust rapidly. Holdens best sales year was 1973, with 200,888 units made. I'm reading that from GM's 75 year anniversary book. Even Oldsmobile produced 918,119 units that year, and it was defunct in 2004.
Times have changed for sure. Asia does most manufacturing today, with Mexico in second, at least in parts making, if not final assembling. Most of GM's manufacturing capacity seems to be from China, and Thailand. Even the Daewoo/GM plants in Korea have stopped production I believe. They were building the Malibu.
Ford just made global salaried staff cuts, mainly out of the USA. Very likely many down under.