There are many different places called Thrift Street, Thrift Lane, etc. Just for fun, let's list them, and if possible dig up the details about who (or what) they were each named after.

Bonus points: Mozart's family lived on Thrift St. in London, but the name was later named to Frith St. Usually, in other examples of the names changing, it goes the other way, changing from Frith to Thrift. Why was Thrift St. renamed Frith St?

There was a Thrift Street in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. Several cool pictures can be found if you do a web search.

Also in the UK,
Thrift St, North Tyneside
Thrift St, Irchester, Northamptonshire
Thrift St, Wollaston, Northamptonshire
Thrift St, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire
Thrift Rd, Branston, Staffordshire
Thrift Rd, Heath And Reach, Bedfordshire
Thrift Ln, Cox Green, Windsor and Maidenhead

In the USA,
Thrift Street is in Kingland, GA, due east of the Okefenokee Swamp.
But even closer to the swamp is Thrift St in Folkston, GA.
Nearby is Thrift Rd, Woodbine, GA

Thrift Rd, Blackshear, Pierce Co, GA
Thrift Rd, Garfield, Jenkins Co, GA
Thrift Rd, Cowpens, SC
Thrift St, Greenville, SC
Thrift St, Pittsboro, NC
Thrift St, Madison, VA
Thrift Ln, Hopewell,VA
Thrift Ln, Woodbridge, VA
Thrift Ln, Chestertown, MD
Thrift Rd, Clinton, MD
Thrift St, Gaithersburg, MD

Others?

Richard Thrift

Here are a bunch of Thrift streets I found by searching online (i.e., the lazy man's way). I doubt if I got them all. These are sorted by state and town. I wish I knew how they got named, but I don't have a clue. It's interesting how the southern states have the most.

Bob
Robert L. Thrift
Masonville, CO

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AL, Mobile, Thrift St.
CA, Malibu, Thrift St.
CA, Merced, Thrift St.
CA, San Francisco, Thrift St.
CA, San Jose, Thrift St.
FL, Crystal River, Thrift St.
FL, Macclenny, Harley Thrift Rd.
FL, Macclenny, Londa Thrift Rd.
FL, Port Saint Lucie, Thrift St.
GA, Blackshear, Thrift Rd.
GA, Cobbtown, Pat Thrift Rd.
GA, Cobbtown, Thrift Rd.
GA, Collins, Duke Thrift Ln.
GA, Collins, Green Thrift Rd.
GA, Decatur, Thrift Pl.
GA, Folkston, Billy Thrift Rd.
GA, Folkston, Thrift St.
GA, Garfield, Thrift Rd.
GA, Kingsland, Thrift St.
GA, Macon, Thrift Ln.
GA, Nahunta, Thrift Loop
GA, St. George, Alfred Thrift Rd.
GA, St. George, Bob Thrift Rd.
GA, Swainsboro, Thrift Dr.
GA, Waycross, Elmer Thrift Rd.
GA, Waycross, Harvey Thrift Rd.
GA, Waycross, Mose Thrift Rd.
GA, Waycross, Susan Thrift Rd.
GA, Woodbine, Thrift Rd.
MD, Chestertown, Thrift St.
MD, Clinton, Thrift St.
MD, Gaithersburg, Thrift St.
MO, St. Louis, Thrift Ave.
NC, Charlotte, Thrift Rd.
NC, Gulf, Thrift Rd.
NC, Hendersonville, Thrift Ln.
NC, Lenoir, Thrift St.
NC, Lincolnton, Thrift Dr.
NC, New Hill, Lower Thrift Rd.
NC, Pittsboro, Thrift St.
NC, Shelby, Thrift Rd.
NC, Siler City, Boggs Thrift Rd.
SC, Charleston, Thrift Ln.
SC, Fountain Inn, Thrift Dr.
SC, Greenville, Thrift St.
SC, Landrum, Thrift Cir.
SC, Mountain Rest, Thrift Dr.
SC, Mountain Rest, Thrift Lake Dr.
SC, Seneca, Thrift Ave.
SC, Tamassee, Thrift Dr.
SC, Westminster, Brent Thrift Dr.
SC, Westminster, Thrift Dr.
SC, York, John Thrift Rd.
TN, Memphis, Thrift Ave.
TX, Burkburnett, Thrift Rd.
TX, El Campo, Thrift St.

Here are a few Friths I picked up as well.

Bob
Robert L. Thrift
Masonville, CO

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AL, Ashford, Frith Hill Rd.
AL, Cowarts, Frith St.
AL, Dothan, Frith Hill Rd.
AL, Foley, Frith Rd.
AL, Gulf Shores, Frith Ave.
AL, Woodstock, Frith Rd.
AR, Rison, Frith Ln.
FL, Land O Lakes, Frith St.
FL, Perry, Ellison Frith Rd.
GA, Jakin, Frith Rd.
IL, Kankakee, Frith Ave.
LA, Abbeville, Frith Rd.
LA, Merryville, Billy Frith Rd.
ME, Bingham, Frith Rd.
MI, Columbus, Frith Rd.
MI, Saint Clair, Frith Rd.
MI, Vermontville, Frith Rd.
MS, Macon, Frith Lake Rd.
MS, Morton, Frith Rd.
NC, Asheville, Frith Dr.
OH, Medina, Frith Ct.
SC, Cassatt, Frith Hill Ln.
TN, Nashville, Frith Dr.
VA, Ridgeway, Frith Dr.

OJ must not be paying attention, or he'd point out that Thrift Rd, Garfield, Jenkins Co, GA is not really in Garfield. It takes off from Elam Rd in the northeast part of the outskirts of Garfield, and turns north northeast. The point where it intersects Highway 23 is a place called Thrift, GA, so small that google maps can't even find it, unless you zero in on it yourself. In Luther Thrift's 1989 book, The Thrifts of Okefinokee, it is mentioned. Shortly after Robert Thomas Thrift's death in 1837, his children moved from Washington County in Georgia to Tattnall County. During their migration they "settled for a short time (probably less than a year) in an area that became known as Thrift, Georgia. In later years, the building of a railroad through the area kept the name alive. Today, Thrift, GA is in present Jenkins County between Garfield and Millen on State Hiway 23."

Richard

Richard, Here's some information on my Great Uncle. He never had any children but named many streets and Developments for his family. I believe the Chesterville was named after my Grandfather Dr. Chester Bird Thrift.

Untied States Department of the Interior
National Park Service

National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet

Maywood Historic District. Arlington County, Virginia(VDHR 000-5056)

Born in Boonesboro, Iowa, in 1873, Hugh Thrift was a veteran of both the Spanish-American War (1898) and World War I (1914-1918). Thrift moved to Washington, D.C. in 1902, and over the next forty years was responsible for eight residential developments in the Washington, D.C. area between 1902 and 1942, including Michigan Park in northeast Washington, D.C. and Jefferson Village in Arlington.
24 Thrift was also the developer for Woodmont, located directly adjacent to Maywood on the north side of Lorcom Lane. Maywood and Woodmont would together become known as “Thrifton Village,” in honor of Hugh Thrift. Thrift married John Harsha’s daughter, Margaret “May,” for whom Maywood is said to have taken its name.
25 During the early development of Maywood, Thrift and his wife lived with John Harsha at 1602 17th Street, N.W. and had his offices in the Union Trust Building at 1405 New York Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C.26 Thrift served on the board of directors of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association and the National Mortgage and Investment Company.27 In his later years, Thrift was an active philanthropist and participated in charitable and religious ventures through his participation in the YMCA, the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church, and Children’s Hospital.28 Hugh Thrift died of leukemia in 1962 at the age of 89.29

End notes
24 “Hugh A. Thrift, Builder, Active in YMCA, Church,” Evening Star, March 13, 1962, Record Group Maywood
Community Association, Virginia Room, Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, Virginia.
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26 Silberman and Baker.
27 “Hugh A. Thrift, Builder, Active in YMCA, Church.”
28 “Hugh A. Thrift, Builder, Active in YMCA, Church.”
29 “Hugh A. Thrift, Builder, YMCA Leader is Dead,” Washington Post, March 12, 1962, Record Group