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In Southern California, housing developments get names like Winery Ridge and Snow Creek. Apparently, truth in advertising doesnât apply to real estate developments.
Canât recall which thing has an ad that mentions âand ingredients you can actually pronounceâ or about like that.
We still do a lot of our own food prep, even pizza⊠though we buy the cheese, bacon, and even sometimes pre-made dough or canned sauce⊠though we make our own pesto every other year or so (it freezes very well).
Anyway, that means we mostly shop the farmers market, and âaround the edgeâ of the grocery, with only the occasional foray into the âcanned food aislesâ
Nothing quite as fine as HOME MADE pizza w/ garden onions, eggplant, garlic etc. and home-made pesto-alfredo sauce.
I think Caulfield is having his own Career Day." No one there, Frazz included, will ever be able seriously to guide him.Heâll just figure it out himself.
Itâs the residential subdivisions in which the streets are named after the trees that were cut down and the birds that were chased away.Industrial parks have street names like âEnterprise Avenueâ and âCommerce Way.â
Well, you canât use macadam street, asphalt avenue, concrete road, gravel gulch, clearcut throughway, etc, but one time. Using numbers would become confusing and too long. Alphabets the same. So you have to get âem from somewhere. After all, lot of people need to be able to find you when they need your contribution to the public trough where they all feed.
Thereâs a development in Spokane (Spo-KAN) thatâs called Partridge Ridge. Very snooty, and now that itâs there, itâs a guarantee that there are no partridges.
Around here developers name streets after their kids. I always wondered whether the guy who put in a Lois Lane purposely named his little baby girl that just so he could use it as a street name.
I would like to build an underwear factory in the Soggy Bottom Mud Park in Florida, but I suspect the park owners would throw wet blankets on that idea.
When one of my hospitals built a new medical office building, it included a spa called â23 Treesâ in honor of the trees that were moved elsewhere in town to make room for the building.
Sometimes youâll even see a rational road naming scheme, though, as many have already noted, not often. But there are occasional exceptions⊠in Mesa county around Grand Junction (on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies) there is a very logical scheme for naming the county roads.
All the north/south running roads are numbered, starting at the Utah border and going east. If you are heading north or south on 32 Road, you are roughly 32 miles east of the Utah border. And there are roads in between the even miles that are labeled things like 19 1/2 Road or 18.3 Road.
For the east/west running roads they picked an arbitrary spot just south of Grand Junction and made that A Road. Then as you head north the letters increment for each mile. So at K Road you are about 10 miles north of A road. And, of course, there are odd fractions on these road as well, like J 3/8 Road. A mile past Z Road you came to AA Road⊠and so on.
I had a lot of fun with that when I went in the service in 1974. At the time my family lived at 2182 K1/2 Road. I went thru the explanation every time I had to give my address to someone. But it boiled down to that I lived roughly 21.82 miles east of Utah and about 10.5 miles north of A Road.
When you came into a town the street naming was just like anywhere else, including a lot of names of trees that were torn down to build the homes.
Because I had to explain it so often I came to the conclusion itâs not a common scheme for road naming. And, in all my travels Iâve not seen it anywhere else, but then I havenât been everywhere, just a lot of wheres.
My deed still lists my 73 year old house as being in âThe Riverviewâ developement. There is a river 1/2 mile awayâŠdown the hill, into the valley. People in 1948, must have had some remarkable vision.
Kiba65 about 4 years ago
Heâs only speaking the truth.
GreasyOldTam about 4 years ago
In Southern California, housing developments get names like Winery Ridge and Snow Creek. Apparently, truth in advertising doesnât apply to real estate developments.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Canât recall which thing has an ad that mentions âand ingredients you can actually pronounceâ or about like that.
We still do a lot of our own food prep, even pizza⊠though we buy the cheese, bacon, and even sometimes pre-made dough or canned sauce⊠though we make our own pesto every other year or so (it freezes very well).
Anyway, that means we mostly shop the farmers market, and âaround the edgeâ of the grocery, with only the occasional foray into the âcanned food aislesâ
Nothing quite as fine as HOME MADE pizza w/ garden onions, eggplant, garlic etc. and home-made pesto-alfredo sauce.
Kind&Kinder about 4 years ago
I think Caulfield is having his own Career Day." No one there, Frazz included, will ever be able seriously to guide him.Heâll just figure it out himself.
DonLee2 about 4 years ago
Itâs the residential subdivisions in which the streets are named after the trees that were cut down and the birds that were chased away.Industrial parks have street names like âEnterprise Avenueâ and âCommerce Way.â
Sanspareil about 4 years ago
Names should be âclear cut avenueâ and âstrip mine boulevardâ
Reality tv or truth in advertising!
Soooo Not going to happen!
Ninette about 4 years ago
You are they.
Doug K about 4 years ago
Whatâs the name of this Industrial Park? âIsnât it âIronicââ?
cornshell about 4 years ago
Or âHickory, Walnut, and Pine,â as per the song by the Poâ Ramblinâ Boys.
Yermo Adam about 4 years ago
Caulfield strikes again.
Darrell Patton about 4 years ago
I knew a development called âHidden Springsâ. No one could find the running water, so I guess it was named honestly.
sandpiper about 4 years ago
Well, you canât use macadam street, asphalt avenue, concrete road, gravel gulch, clearcut throughway, etc, but one time. Using numbers would become confusing and too long. Alphabets the same. So you have to get âem from somewhere. After all, lot of people need to be able to find you when they need your contribution to the public trough where they all feed.
rlaker22j about 4 years ago
Lake Forest, has neither
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 4 years ago
And nobody said
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinginâ hot spot
Donât it always seem to go
That you donât know what you got âtil itâs gone
Came across a bunch of 35mm I took of Joni back in the 60âs when she was starting
trainnut1956 about 4 years ago
âPave paradise, put up a parking lotâŠâ
Snowedin about 4 years ago
Thereâs a development in Spokane (Spo-KAN) thatâs called Partridge Ridge. Very snooty, and now that itâs there, itâs a guarantee that there are no partridges.
Cactus-Pete about 4 years ago
Career day? Thatâs supposed to be when kids learn about possible careers, not the kids speculating on things they know nothing about.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 4 years ago
Around here developers name streets after their kids. I always wondered whether the guy who put in a Lois Lane purposely named his little baby girl that just so he could use it as a street name.
Richard Perry about 4 years ago
Surfside 500 Apt building in Denver.
Richard Perry about 4 years ago
Surfside 500 Apt building in Denver.
evilsofa about 4 years ago
I would like to build an underwear factory in the Soggy Bottom Mud Park in Florida, but I suspect the park owners would throw wet blankets on that idea.
asrialfeeple about 4 years ago
Will they take all the trees, and put em in a tree museum, and charge the people a dollar and a half to see them?
gcarlson about 4 years ago
When one of my hospitals built a new medical office building, it included a spa called â23 Treesâ in honor of the trees that were moved elsewhere in town to make room for the building.
sml7291 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Sometimes youâll even see a rational road naming scheme, though, as many have already noted, not often. But there are occasional exceptions⊠in Mesa county around Grand Junction (on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies) there is a very logical scheme for naming the county roads.
All the north/south running roads are numbered, starting at the Utah border and going east. If you are heading north or south on 32 Road, you are roughly 32 miles east of the Utah border. And there are roads in between the even miles that are labeled things like 19 1/2 Road or 18.3 Road.
For the east/west running roads they picked an arbitrary spot just south of Grand Junction and made that A Road. Then as you head north the letters increment for each mile. So at K Road you are about 10 miles north of A road. And, of course, there are odd fractions on these road as well, like J 3/8 Road. A mile past Z Road you came to AA Road⊠and so on.
I had a lot of fun with that when I went in the service in 1974. At the time my family lived at 2182 K1/2 Road. I went thru the explanation every time I had to give my address to someone. But it boiled down to that I lived roughly 21.82 miles east of Utah and about 10.5 miles north of A Road.
When you came into a town the street naming was just like anywhere else, including a lot of names of trees that were torn down to build the homes.
Because I had to explain it so often I came to the conclusion itâs not a common scheme for road naming. And, in all my travels Iâve not seen it anywhere else, but then I havenât been everywhere, just a lot of wheres.
christelisbetty about 4 years ago
My deed still lists my 73 year old house as being in âThe Riverviewâ developement. There is a river 1/2 mile awayâŠdown the hill, into the valley. People in 1948, must have had some remarkable vision.