Thieves Keep Stealing Sign For Glory Hole Drive In Camino

CAMINO (CBS13) — A street name that shares its name with a secretive sexual double meaning is the target of sign thieves looking for a wall trophy.

Residents who live on Glory Hole Drive in Camino say their street sign is being repeatedly stolen, and replacing it is expensive.

Up among the tall trees in the El Dorado County mountains, there's a hole in the ground where a street sign once stood on Glory Hole Drive. Residents suspect whoever stole their sign is probably gloating and giggling.

"I think the juveniles or young people think, it's a sexual connotation, so they're going to take the sign, who knows where it went," he said. "Some kid's got it in his bedroom or college dorm room or I don't know."

The glory hole the street is not named after refers to a hole in a wall that allows for anonymous sexual gratification. The road is in fact named after a former gold mine camp—a hole in the ground that offered glory to those who struck gold.

It's far from the first time the sign has been stolen. In fact, Google Street View shows another time it was stolen. Neighbors say it's been stolen at least five times, and twice since Smith moved in two years ago from another double entendre road.

"We moved out from Alaska and our street name was Smoke Bowl," he said. "I don't know who took the sign but they wanted it pretty bad. We had the Smoke Bowl sign in Alaska taken twice," he said.

With no street sign in the mountain community, inviting first-time guests can be trouble.

"It's difficult, we live in this little strip right here there's four driveways," said Casey Hanson. "So trying to get people to take the middle one, but not the paved one."

Those looking for Camino's Glory Hole will have to look for a hole in the ground instead.

Replacing the sign costs residents on the private street $300 each time it's taken.