Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: what do you call the freeway Message-ID: <1792@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 23:38:36 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1792 Posted: Mon Oct 29 23:38:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Oct-84 00:27:38 EST References: <869@ihuxe.UUCP> <207@zinfandel.UUCP><> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Western Annex Lines: 24 Summary: In article <484@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> matt@oddjob.UUCP ( Crawford) writes: >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. Uh, one errata, Matt-- the Newport freeway doesn't go to Newport Beach, it stops in Costa Mesa. Also, it is officially known as the Costa Mesa freeway now because it will never GET to Newport. Unfortunately when they changed the name they didn't bother to spend any money changing the signs, so the FREEWAY still thinks it is the Newport Freeway. It's wrong, of course. chuq (someone who lived in LA a little longer...) -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA I'd know those eyes from a million years away....