We were not disappointed in our hunt for this Myopia Road sign in Hyde Park.
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Adorable!
By anon
Fri, 08/19/2016 - 4:28pm
Adorable!
There Aren't Very Many Ophthalmologically Named Streets
By Elmer
Fri, 08/19/2016 - 6:31pm
[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/cataract-st.jpg[/img]
[sup] Cataract Street, Cohoes — Google Maps[/sup]
[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/eyeball-ave.jpg[/img]
[sup] Eyeball Avenue, Jupiter — Google Maps[/sup]
I (can't) see what you did
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 08/19/2016 - 6:32pm
I (can't) see what you did there.
That explains a lot
By Roman
Fri, 08/19/2016 - 7:50pm
actually.
Perhaps the sign maker was nearsighted
By bulgingbuick
Fri, 08/19/2016 - 7:58pm
or became intolerant of lesser font.
Curable!
By anon
Sat, 08/20/2016 - 5:57am
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Names after hunting/country clubs
By Windypig
Sat, 08/20/2016 - 8:21am
I live on Myopia Rd.
Myopia Road also intersects with Braeburn road.
Myopia Road I think is named after "Myopia Hunting Club" A Mass fox hunting club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia_Hunt_Club
and Braeburn Road is named after "Brae Burn Country Club" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brae_Burn_Country_Club
My theory is that these roads (both next to the George Wright Golf course) were intentionally named after local Mass clubs....
Which leaves the question of
By SamW
Sat, 08/20/2016 - 8:35am
Which leaves the question of why a fox-hunting club is named after the condition of near-sightedness. Rather appropriate, actually, but one wouldn't expect the founders to have been so far-sighted when coming up with a name.
It seems
By Windypig
Sat, 08/20/2016 - 6:25pm
That the answer was in my own linked-to wikipedia article: It states:
The name "Myopia" is due to some of its founding members having come from the Myopia Club in Winchester, Massachusetts, which had been founded by four brothers with poor vision, or myopia"
There's also a Myopia Road
By jmeltzer
Sun, 08/21/2016 - 2:27pm
at the Arlington-Winchester border (I think it's on the Arlington side) that used to go to the Winchester club (which moved, is now the Winchester Boat Club and, I presume, is open to people with all kinds of vision).
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