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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: what do you call the freeway
Message-ID: <484@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 11:55:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: oddjob.484
Posted: Wed Oct 10 11:55:37 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:44:17 EDT
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Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP ( Crawford)
Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Summary: 

Re: phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai)'s:
> > In article <> tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> > >If you are ever in Pasadena, try the Pasadena Freeway ( The 11 ).
> 
> This is interesting. I have been to LA and thought most people there
> called the Freeways by their names (Hollywood Freeway, San Diego
> Freeway, Santa Monica Freeway, Golden State Freeway, etc) while
> people in the San Francisco bay area called freeways by their numbers
> (101, 280, 580, 17, etc).

Yes, everyone in Southern California uses the names; let's assume
Tim Smith was being helpful to strangers.  One reason that may
contribute to the difference in usage between the South and the 
North is the names themselves.  From L.A., the Pasadena Freeway
takes you to Pasadena, the San Diego Freeway takes you to San
Diego, The Riverside Freeway takes you to Riverside, and so on.
Sometimes those freeways which don't pass through L.A. fail to
have such descriptive names, but still the Foothill Freeway is
near the foothills and the Newport Freeway has Newport Beach at
one end.

Does anyone remember the "Richard M. Nixon Freeway"?
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