Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 12, 2021

He’s only speaking the truth.

In Southern California, housing developments get names like Winery Ridge and Snow Creek. Apparently, truth in advertising doesn’t apply to real estate developments.

Can’t recall which thing has an ad that mentions “and ingredients you can actually pronounce” 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 “around the edge” of the grocery, with only the occasional foray into the “canned food aisles”

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.He’ll just figure it out himself.

It’s 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 “Enterprise Avenue” and “Commerce Way.”

Names should be “clear cut avenue” and “strip mine boulevard”

Reality tv or truth in advertising!

Soooo Not going to happen!

You are they.

What’s the name of this Industrial Park? “Isn’t it ‘Ironic’”?

Or “Hickory, Walnut, and Pine,” as per the song by the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys.

Caulfield strikes again.

I knew a development called “Hidden Springs”. No one could find the running water, so I guess it was named honestly.

Well, you can’t 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 ’em 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.

Lake Forest, has neither

And nobody said

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin’ hot spot

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone

Came across a bunch of 35mm I took of Joni back in the 60’s when she was starting

“Pave paradise, put up a parking lot…”

There’s a development in Spokane (Spo-KAN) that’s called Partridge Ridge. Very snooty, and now that it’s there, it’s a guarantee that there are no partridges.

Career day? That’s supposed to be when kids learn about possible careers, not the kids speculating on things they know nothing about.

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.

Surfside 500 Apt building in Denver.

Surfside 500 Apt building in Denver.

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.

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?

When one of my hospitals built a new medical office building, it included a spa called “23 Trees” in honor of the trees that were moved elsewhere in town to make room for the building.

Sometimes you’ll 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 it’s not a common scheme for road naming. And, in all my travels I’ve not seen it anywhere else, but then I haven’t been everywhere, just a lot of wheres.

My deed still lists my 73 year old house as being in “The Riverview” developement. There is a river 1/2 mile away…down the hill, into the valley. People in 1948, must have had some remarkable vision.