At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
As George Bush prepares to move out of the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, and Barack Obama prepares to move in, I thought I’d take a virtual trip around the country and see what’s going on at other locations with the same address.
The following photos come via Google Street View:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Baltimore, MD
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Glendora, CA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Wilmington, DE
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Bremerton, WA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Savannah, GA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Terre Haute, IN
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in West Mifflin, PA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Los Angeles, CA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Croydon, PA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Brooklyn, NY
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Des Moines, IA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Oreland, PA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Prospect Park, PA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Colton, CA
1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Dallas, TX
Note: For my British readers, here’s where else you can find Number 10 Downing Street
Comments
I think it’s great that all those homeowners decided to paint their houses white. They were probably tired of bad jokes from their neighbors.
Posted by: Mike | November 12, 2008 8:37 AM
Here’s a list of all the 10 Downing Streets in the UK:
10 Downing Street, HALESOWEN, B63 3TA
10 Downing Street, SMETHWICK, B66 2PA
10 Downing Street, South Normanton, ALFRETON, DE55 2HE
10 Downing Street, LIVERPOOL, L5 4TQ
10 Downing Street, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 4EF
10 Downing Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG6 8JU
10 Downing Street, NEWPORT, NP19 0JJ
10 Downing Street, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9LR
10 Downing Street, PRESTON, PR1 4RH
10 Downing Street, LLANELLI, SA15 2UA
10 Downing Street, CHIPPENHAM, SN14 0AA
Non-residential:
John Lewis, 10 Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3DS
Games Pod, 10 Downing Street, FARNHAM, GU9 7PB
Prime Minister & First Lord Of The Treasury, 10 Downing Street, LONDON, SW1A 2AA
Posted by: Simon Powell | November 12, 2008 9:49 AM
I love how so many of the residential addresses are white houses.
Posted by: romulusnr | November 12, 2008 12:34 PM
Pennsylvania Ave in Dallas is a far cry from the Preston Hollow area, where the Bushes are rumored to be buying a place, home of such notables as Ross Perot and Mark Cuban.
Posted by: joejoethedogfaceboy | November 12, 2008 3:49 PM
Heh, indeed. Never mind all those other cities. Washington is a N/S/E/W grid and Pennsylvania Ave runs diagonally from NW to SE. So there’s also a 1600 Pennsylvania Ave SE in Washington, DC to compare to its ritzier NW brother.
Take a look at THAT, if you dare.
Posted by: David | November 12, 2008 5:38 PM
Oh, yeah, 1600 Penn. Ave in Baltimore is nothing special… also not the kind of place GW would want to find himself…
Posted by: kvh | November 12, 2008 5:51 PM
Wow, congrats on gettign on Buzzfeed with this post; I saw it on the home page of Huffington Post.
Sniff! And I knew you when.
Posted by: Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer | November 12, 2008 7:49 PM
Awesome post!
Posted by: Coco | November 13, 2008 12:17 AM
david: there is no 1600 pennsylvania ave SE in DC. if there was, it would fall approximately where there is a used car lot just off of barney circle right now.
not sure why you say IF YOU DARE, like there’s something terrifying about that location. it’s on the edge of capitol hill, in a pretty nice neighborhood. a brand new condo building with a harris teeter grocery store just opened across the street a couple months ago…
Posted by: IMGoph | November 13, 2008 11:51 AM
Really loved this post,thanks!
Posted by: Gail | November 13, 2008 12:35 PM
Brilliant!!
Posted by: Jeff | November 13, 2008 1:07 PM
Pennsylania Avenue in Elizabeth NJ is a prostitution area, or “ho stroll”.
Google map it as Pa ave and Mary st.
lol
Posted by: kat | November 13, 2008 8:38 PM
I’ve actually done a photo essay on this very subject, you can see at my site, http://www.mimages.com . Most of the addresses listed here are not actually 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but only where the address would actually be. I traveled cross country to find them all.
Posted by: Mike | November 14, 2008 9:58 AM
Funny how there’s a moving truck outside 10 Downing Street, New York, New York! A sign for Gordon Brown, perhaps?
Posted by: Izz | November 14, 2008 11:27 AM
There’s a 1600 Pennsylvania in Denver. It’s probably an apartment complex, or maybe a restaurant underneath it.
Posted by: Scoop | November 16, 2008 8:10 PM
I think it’s great post and very informative. I also loved the “Number 10 Downing Street” post. Pennsylania Avenue in Elizabeth NJ is a prostitution area, is this true??
Posted by: Sujan P | January 13, 2009 1:57 AM