Name Game Pointless Prize

[wheelswings]

Name Game Pointless Prize

Is there a street or place that bears your name? Or maybe a coffee shop? Anything at all?
For this prize, the goal is to find a location or an establishment that bears your name (even in mutated form), ride there, and take a picture to show you were there. Please note the location, too.
It can be your first name or last name or nickname or Forum name or any other names you go by. If your name has a meaning or translation, feel free to find something connected. For example, my first name is Cynthia… there’s a Cinthia’s Bakery on Columbia Pike. It’s a Greek name meaning Goddess of the Moon so I could also visit Moon Street in Alexandria. My middle name is the name of a cigar (yuck) so maybe I could find a store named after the cigar. And my last name is Palmer. That’s a toilet tissue dispenser designed for high-traffic public restrooms (yay?) so maybe I could find a storefront that bears the name of the Palmer TP company. I could also go with my Forum name, Wheels&Wings, and find places or establishments that have wheels or wings in the title.

If you can’t find anything that bears your name in any form, then try your letters backward or scrambled, or try just your initials. Some names are far harder than others, but use that to your advantage… you’ll get bonus points for creativity! Post your findings on this thread. Multiple submissions welcome.

Optional hashtag: #namegame
(The judges will be checking this Forum thread rather than the hashtag data. )

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[Nadine]

3/2/33 On the way to Nadine Drive I noticed my last name

…. with a li’l editing courtesy of Mark. (It was Norbeck St.) My name is Nadine Beck

[Nadine]

3/2/22

Nadine Joyce Beck actually [emoji1]

[consularrider]

Given name in the Village of Lyons, then a surname variant in Oak Park

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[Nadine]

I was half adopted when I was 10. Before age 10 my last name was Silver. I just recently realized that’s a viable name for this game!

Took this one on Friday – first chance I’ve had to upload it

[Nadine]

Got another Silver yesterday riding through Silver Spring
Silver was my last name until 1973 – and is currently the last name of my surviving parent & my half brother

[lordofthemark]

Given the history of our area I wanted this one. There are plenty of things here named Fairfax, but not so many named Lord Fairfax

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[bikedavid]

There is a club in Shaw called Flash, which is also my nickname in college. Interestingly there is no big sign with the name, just this from the license. Not sure how people find it other than through Google Maps and word of mouth.

[CBGanimal]

3/10/2022 my maiden name in lights. Buchanan

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[Sophie CW]

My married name at this local park on Bauer Drive in Rockville:
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[consularrider]

The last time I rode the Monon Rail Trail in Indianapolis (3 years ago?) I stopped here for coffee and ice cream. Now it is being converted into additional space for the veterinarian next door

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[Sophie CW]

NeedWOOD golf course located on Needwood Road in Derwood, MD:
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[Henry]

Finally got over to DHS to get this posted in the final week of BAFS:

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[Sophie CW]

Saw this sign with my last name today. Will have to go to the actual school this week!
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[CBGanimal]

3/15/2022 my middle name is Rose

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[Sophie CW]

Wood is the second part of my last name.
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