{"id":276,"date":"2008-10-21T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-10-21T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T19:19:11","slug":"unusual-town-names-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2008-10-21\/unusual-town-names-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Town Names in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving to Pennsylvania a few years ago, I discovered that, unlike Virginia, not all places are named after English nobility or geographic features. I have collected some of the more amusing\/unusual place names I discovered in Pennsylvania into a Google map.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117500442804721762146.000459c7a58737cce32ec&amp;ll=40.27598,-77.605877&amp;spn=0.537222,3.017464&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJrllPBqjRv7HGv0M0V59JrsbKeKWw\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117500442804721762146.000459c7a58737cce32ec&amp;ll=40.27598,-77.605877&amp;spn=0.537222,3.017464&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I love how the triangle of Paradise, Intercourse, and Fertility are so far removed from Climax.<\/p>\n<p>Many coal towns in Western PA were named by the mining companies. Uninventive names like &#8220;Mine 71&#8221; are common. But I think the best is &#8220;Revloc&#8221;. This is the next town over from Colver, and whoever named it just decided to spell Colver backwards.<\/p>\n<p>Cambria county doesn&#8217;t allow outdoor advertising of pornography; so immediately outside of the county on U.S. route 22 (near Climax PA) there are a group of video stores and strip clubs. One sign in particular has a rather amusing mis-use of quotation marks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Live&#8221; girls!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving to Pennsylvania a few years ago, I discovered that, unlike Virginia, not all places are named after English nobility or geographic features. I have collected some of the more amusing\/unusual place names I discovered in Pennsylvania into a Google map. View Larger Map I love how the triangle of Paradise, Intercourse, and Fertility are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[171,170],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-untagged","tag-humor","tag-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}