Everyone gets a good laugh at Dork Street – except for some of its residents, of course – but its etymology is unknown. The road was named on a 1936 tract, long before the slang term “dork” was coined in the 1960s. The tract was owned by the Banta brothers: Earl Lott Banta (1886-1973) and George Henry Banta (1895-1980). I assure you, I found no “Dorks” in their family tree. What did the word mean to them? Was it someone’s nickname? A pet? An acronym? A private joke? We may never know.
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