Daisy's home address

[juicymcduck]

Donald has had a few known addresses in Duckburg; I can think of 1313 Webfoot Walk, 13 Quack Street and Oak Street, and that's in Barks’ work only! Now, can any of you remember any mention of Daisy's home address? 

[Matilda]

Hmm, just checked the Barks-drawn "Daringly Different," which is all *about* Daisy's house, and repeatedly shows her mailbox(es), but no, no indication of a street name or number!

[LP]

When I read through Al Taliaferro's run of daily strips, I took note of any mention of adresses and phone numbers and such. While both Donald and Scrooge's adresses were mentioned, it seems like Daisy's never was.

There is however one strip in which she moves to a new house. We're not given an adress, but at least we get a name. It used to be known as Stony Hill Villa due to all the rocks on the property, but Daisy has them removed and renames it Grassy Knoll Manor. I'll post the strip below. Unfortunately, I didn't think to record this strip's INDUCKS-code.

[Rrr]

Feb 5, 2024 10:56:14 GMT LP said:

When I read through Al Taliaferro's run of daily strips, I took note of any mention of adresses and phone numbers and such. While both Donald and Scrooge's adresses were mentioned, it seems like Daisy's never was.

There is however one strip in which she moves to a new house. We're not given an adress, but at least we get a name. It used to be known as Stony Hill Villa due to all the rocks on the property, but Daisy has them removed and renames it Grassy Knoll Manor. I'll post the strip below. Unfortunately, I didn't think to record this strip's INDUCKS-code.

Should be YD 49-07-05

Rune

[RobbK1]

Feb 5, 2024 11:26:08 GMT Rrr said:

Feb 5, 2024 10:56:14 GMT LP said:

When I read through Al Taliaferro's run of daily strips, I took note of any mention of adresses and phone numbers and such. While both Donald and Scrooge's adresses were mentioned, it seems like Daisy's never was.

There is however one strip in which she moves to a new house. We're not given an adress, but at least we get a name. It used to be known as Stony Hill Villa due to all the rocks on the property, but Daisy has them removed and renames it Grassy Knoll Manor. I'll post the strip below. Unfortunately, I didn't think to record this strip's INDUCKS-code.

Should be YD 49-07-05

Rune

So, maybe if I use her house as a location in a story, I'll show a street sign reading: "Stony Hill Road" crossed out, with "Grassy Knoll Drive" written clearly by hand, above the original painted street name.

[berri]

Now I <i>really</i> wanna know Daisy's address.

[LP]

In Making the Grade, we see a package with Daisy's address on it. I can't make out the name of the street, the the numbers seem to be either 1010 or 10101. Below are the relevant panels in no particular order.

[RobbK1]

Mar 9, 2024 23:13:21 GMT LP said:

In Making the Grade, we see a package with Daisy's address on it. I can't make out the name of the street, the the numbers seem to be either 1010 or 10101. Below are the relevant panels in no particular order. 

It looks like a DIFFERENT street name and street number in each view.  I assume that was done purposely.  But, I can't imagine why.  10101 ?   161110 CA..,   106 , 108?1 Pizza.   Why not use just one same address that can be viewed and recognised and understood on all views?  Barks and several other writers and artists were not afraid to "invent" funny or appropriate street addresses for stories for Donald, Gladstone, Scrooge, and others.  Why not for Daisy?  I thought I remember her residing on "Shady Lane" in Duckburg in one story.  That's the street name I'd have used.  Barks usually had her living in a suburban neighbourhood in Duckburg, lined with lots of tall trees, providing lots of shade.

[juicymcduck]

Truth be told, I started this thread because I was asked to translate (among other things) a Dutch one-pager in which the name of Daisy's street is mentioned. Before I came up with something, I wanted to know whether there existed an established address in English, but as you all know, it was all to no avail.

Edit: I see that Don Rosa uses the USPS abbreviation "CA," which normally is for California, right? I would've thought he would've come up with something like "CL" for Calisota.

[juicymcduck]

Mar 10, 2024 4:17:39 GMT RobbK1 said:

Mar 9, 2024 23:13:21 GMT LP said:

I thought I remember her residing on "Shady Lane" in Duckburg in one story.  That's the street name I'd have used.  Barks usually had her living in a suburban neighbourhood in Duckburg, lined with lots of tall trees, providing lots of shade.

As far as I can tell, "Shady Lane" is from Barks' ten-pager Boxed-In. It's not a street, though, it's a park (Shady Lane Park), and it's not quite where Daisy lives; it's rather a place between Daisy's neighborhood and "Bugwood Park."

[Matilda]

Mar 10, 2024 12:33:16 GMT juicymcduck said:

Edit: I see that Don Rosa uses the USPS abbreviation "CA," which normally is for California, right? I would've thought he would've come up with something like "CL" for Calisota.

Not to mention that the two-letter abbreviations for states weren't used until 1963. They were proposed by the Postal Service a few months after the zip codes came into use, in order to be able to fit city, state, zip code all on one line. So if we want to be That Guy, we could point out that the two-letter abbreviations wouldn't have been used in Rosa's Duck-present.

I suppose one could theorize that in the alternate universe in which there exists an additional state within the continental US, different abbreviations would have been developed for the states with some shared letters. Maybe California in that universe got the abbreviation CF!

[LP]

Mar 10, 2024 20:37:55 GMT Matilda said:

I suppose one could theorize that in the alternate universe in which there exists an additional state within the continental US, different abbreviations would have been developed for the states with some shared letters. Maybe California in that universe got the abbreviation CF!

Not to derail the thread or anything, but does BOTH Calisota and California exist as two separate states in the Duck universe? I guess I always assumed that they were one and the same, just with a different name. If both really do exist separately, then the Duck-USA would have 51 states. Is there any argument for or against 51 states in the comics?

[juicymcduck]

Mar 10, 2024 21:58:01 GMT LP said:

Mar 10, 2024 20:37:55 GMT Matilda said:

I suppose one could theorize that in the alternate universe in which there exists an additional state within the continental US, different abbreviations would have been developed for the states with some shared letters. Maybe California in that universe got the abbreviation CF!

Not to derail the thread or anything, but does BOTH Calisota and California exist as two separate states in the Duck universe? I guess I always assumed that they were one and the same, just with a different name. If both really do exist separately, then the Duck-USA would have 51 states. Is there any argument for or against 51 states in the comics?

Well, as you know, Donald and the triplets go sightseeing in California in Bark's aptly titled story... well, Old California. I believe that, in the Duckverse, Calisota basically replaces the Northernmost part of real-life California, roughly the Shasta Cascade region and half of the North Coast region. Anything below that is Duckverse California.

[RobbK1]

Mar 10, 2024 14:08:38 GMT juicymcduck said:

Mar 10, 2024 4:17:39 GMT RobbK1 said:

As far as I can tell, "Shady Lane" is from Barks' ten-pager Boxed-In. It's not a street, though, it's a park (Shady Lane Park), and it's not quite where Daisy lives; it's rather a place between Daisy's neighborhood and "Bugwood Park."

Shady Lane Park would be located adjacent to Shady Lane, which would be then major road leading to that park.  It could be a long enough street/road to span the distance from Daisy's house to the park (and possibly even more in both directions).  In most of Barks' depictions, Daisy lived in a suburban neighbourhood seemingly near the edge of Duckburg, near forested areas.  I think it would be an appropriate name for her street, and see no reason why anyone's saying it is not the same street and road holds any water.  Streets in USA and Canada can start as streets inside cities and towns, and continue outward from them for many miles/kilometres into rural areas.  They rarely last only one or two blocks, like they do inthe centres of old cities in Europe.  I see now that Donald and Daisy have leftb Daisy's house, and The Nephews say they will soon get to Shady Lane.  So it is unlikely that they would have started from Daisy's house (if it were on that same street) and then leave that street, and then return to it.  There ARE situations in USA where that might actually happen if that streetbwere twisty and go in several directions.  But very unlikely.  So, I guess I probably would NOT have Daisy reside on a street with that name in a story I write, unless I would want to intimate that she moved there from a former residence.