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The main street is still called Calle Principal in some old Spanish cities like Monterey CA and Las Cruces NM. Also in Monterey, the famous Cannery Row.
French Quarter streets are signposted as "Rue Bourbon", with no mention of Street.
In and around Lexington KY, streets that eventually lead to another city are callled, for example, Nicholasville Pike.
* For example, Avenues traditionally were purposely lined with trees, while Streets were not, and the definition of "Road" is a bit cryptic - in New England and Old England, the "places" that Roads connected were typically cities, towns and villages. The road heading out of Boston towards Salem was the Salem Road heading out of Boston, and the Boston Road heading out of Salem; somewhere between, it might have been called the Boston-Salem Road. Roads connecting major towns might have started out as pikes/turnpikes before the grant of toll revenue expired.
Crescents were a fashionable form of urban street in non-grid city/town plats circa 1750-1850: they were arced, often with a park of some sort and with "terraced" row houses, which themselves begat the Terrace designation. E.g., Boston's Tontine Crescent (a victim of the Great Fire of 1872), though the street still arcs:
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During the late 1990s Lexington KY designated Cooper Ave - the road the Univ of Kentucky football stadium is on - as Hal Mumme Pass. At the time Mumme was a successful coach there with a pass happy offense. It officially remained Cooper Dr though. After Mumme was fired in disgrace the designation was removed.
Oh yeah, there's the Bowery (no designation) in Manhattan, and Broadway in Manhattan and a bunch of other cities like Seattle.
Was just scrolling around Palatine, IL (Chicago NW suburbs) and they have a White Willow Bay and Spring Willow Bay --- not "Way". These are just in a random subdivision, not abutting any lake.
Spanish street terms are very common out West and really as a result not that unusual. It's interesting, however, that even in Cajun country in Louisiana or the very Acadian towns in Northern New England there aren't really French street names. I mean you might get a French name/word and then Street/Road added to it, but you don't get "Rue".
Though north of the border, Queen’s Quay in Toronto is what immediately comes to mind.
Edit: Actually along those lines there are several “Wharf” designations in Boston.
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