Cocktail Inspired Street Names

Crown Royal is often incorrectly identified as a bourbon, rather than a Canadian Rye. Maybe that’s why the late Jim Bening used both “Rye” and “Bourbon” when he named four Coeur d’Alene streets after the liquor in 1970. Rye Avenue and Bourbon Drive are accompanied by Crown Avenue and Royal Street in a north Coeur d’Alene neighborhood between U.S. Highway 95 and Government Way. Bening was a member of an investment group, called DECEM Inc., and was tasked to submit street names to Kootenai County officials prior to development of the land. Jim’s son, Frank Bening, told The Press Monday that the street names came from necessity rather than a love of Crown Royal. “He came up with some names and, for whatever reason, the county didn’t like them,” Frank said. “He went round and round and round and every time he came up with another series of names, they were already taken.” Bening was losing his patience with the process, Frank said. But inspiration finally came from an unlikely source/ Keith Cousins , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here . (Coeur d’Alene Press photo: Shawn Gust)

Question: If you named streets after a favorite cocktail, what names would you come up with?