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Thread Number: 78395
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
Streets named after appliances/manufacturing |
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Post# 1024198 , Reply# 1 2/10/2019 at 10:27 (1,894 days old) by Tomturbomatic  (Beltsville, MD) |
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There is a Kenmore Plantation in Fredericksburg, VA that was a home of George Washington's sister Betty and her husband Fielding Lewis. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Tomturbomatic's LINK | ||
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Post# 1024215 , Reply# 2 2/10/2019 at 14:28 (1,894 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 1024222 , Reply# 3 2/10/2019 at 15:25 (1,894 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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Post# 1024225 , Reply# 4 2/10/2019 at 15:41 (1,894 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula) |
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Hobart St in Los Angeles. There's also a Bissell Avenue in East LA/Whittier | ||
| Post# 1024236 , Reply# 5 2/10/2019 at 18:42 (1,894 days old) by iej (.... ) | ||
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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 | ||
| Post# 1024245 , Reply# 6 2/10/2019 at 19:55 (1,894 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Homan avenue In Chicago and another street made up Homart, Sears plumbing and heating line. | ||
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Post# 1024264 , Reply# 8 2/11/2019 at 00:24 (1,894 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 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. | ||
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Post# 1024275 , Reply# 9 2/11/2019 at 01:36 (1,894 days old) by abcomatic (Bradford, Illinois) |
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Peoria, il North Peoria has a street named after the ABC washing machine company. Altorfer Drive. The logo stood for: Altorfer Brother's Company. | ||
| Post# 1024291 , Reply# 10 2/11/2019 at 07:15 (1,893 days old) by Blackstone (Springfield, Massachusetts) | ||
There was a Westinghouse plant in Springfield, Mass. | ||
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Post# 1024294 , Reply# 11 2/11/2019 at 09:17 (1,893 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago) |
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Admiral Drive, Harvard Illinois | ||
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Post# 1024296 , Reply# 12 2/11/2019 at 10:24 (1,893 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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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 | ||
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Post# 1024301 , Reply# 13 2/11/2019 at 11:26 (1,893 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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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. | ||
| Post# 1024339 , Reply# 14 2/11/2019 at 21:39 (1,893 days old) by cycla-fabric (New Jersey (Northern)) | ||
Westinghouse Blvd | ||
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Post# 1024340 , Reply# 15 2/11/2019 at 21:56 (1,893 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Post# 1024348 , Reply# 16 2/12/2019 at 01:07 (1,893 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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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. | ||
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Post# 1024357 , Reply# 17 2/12/2019 at 06:20 (1,892 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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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
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Post# 1024370 , Reply# 18 2/12/2019 at 09:37 (1,892 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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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 | ||
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Post# 1024371 , Reply# 19 2/12/2019 at 09:38 (1,892 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago) |
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Magnavox Way | ||
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Post# 1024381 , Reply# 20 2/12/2019 at 11:34 (1,892 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Speaking of Vacant, Cold, and Deteorating: | ||
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Post# 1024453 , Reply# 21 2/13/2019 at 08:25 (1,891 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Post# 1024461 , Reply# 23 2/13/2019 at 10:16 (1,891 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.) |
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Hey Blackstone, | ||
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Post# 1024499 , Reply# 24 2/13/2019 at 18:39 (1,891 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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| Post# 1024506 , Reply# 25 2/13/2019 at 20:08 (1,891 days old) by Blackstone (Springfield, Massachusetts) | ||
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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:
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Post# 1033862 , Reply# 26 5/29/2019 at 10:49 (1,786 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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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 CLICK HERE TO GO TO DaveAMKrayoGuy's LINK | ||
| Post# 1033866 , Reply# 27 5/29/2019 at 13:21 (1,786 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Homan ave Homart, Tower Sears tower | ||
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Post# 1033885 , Reply# 29 5/29/2019 at 17:11 (1,786 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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 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.
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Post# 1033889 , Reply# 30 5/29/2019 at 19:18 (1,786 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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| Post# 1034179 , Reply# 31 6/2/2019 at 02:53 (1,783 days old) by Fluidriver (South Australia) | ||
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.
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