 bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA | reply to Loco
Re: 405 Freeway Closure This is how I know that LA is overrun with interlopers.
1. Refering to a freeway as an expressway.
2. Calling it "THE 405." It's "The San Diego."
If I still lived there, my head might explode. |
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 spgGrrrr
join:2001-10-31
NOT Texas! | Ive got to agree. It's the San Diego, the Golden State, the Hollywood, etc.
Aren't Expressways in New York? These are Freeways!
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 TheRulWhy Not You?Premium
join:2007-09-18
Gilroy, CA
kudos:1 | Unless you have been in SoCal, you do not know what a Freeway is.
Kick the rest of them out!
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 SteveI know your IP addressConsultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
kudos:5 | reply to bobrk
said by bobrk:2. Calling it "THE 405." It's "The San Diego." I don't know anybody who actually leaves their house that calls freeways by the names: they change as you travel about, and if you're going to jump on the 405, you're not thinking of the 47 different names, including the 400 yard stretch known as the Det. Barney Fife Memorial Thruway.
Referring to freeways by name is unhelpful. |
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 PhilRojo SolPremium
join:2001-06-11
Downers Grove, IL
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| said by Steve:Referring to freeways by name is unhelpful. Concur. As a native to Southern California I've always used the 101, 405, 5, etc. when referring to freeways. |
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TheRulWhy Not You?Premium
join:2007-09-18
Gilroy, CA
kudos:1 | The announcement for the 405 being closed was as far north on the 5 as Santa Nella |
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 dogmaXYZPremium
join:2002-08-15
Boulder City, NV
kudos:1 | reply to Phil
Referring to freeways by name is traditional.
Those short memorial named stretches are a recent occurrence. Growing up everyone I recall referred to them by name.
Take the San Diego to the Santa Monica to the Harbor to the Pasadena to the Hollywood to the Ventura... of course one would really have to be a true native to know that the Harbor and Pasadena were both technically the same (110), and the Hollywood and Ventura freeways were both the same as well (101). Same with the Santa Ana and the Golden State, the Santa Monica and the San Bernardino.
We tried our best to keep you interlopers from moving in by attempting to confuse your commutes...but it didn't work. 
Wonder what Steve  calls "The four level"? |
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bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA Reviews:
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said by Steve:said by bobrk:2. Calling it "THE 405." It's "The San Diego." I don't know anybody who actually leaves their house that calls freeways by the names: they change as you travel about, and if you're going to jump on the 405, you're not thinking of the 47 different names, including the 400 yard stretch known as the Det. Barney Fife Memorial Thruway. Referring to freeways by name is unhelpful. Oh, I'm certain things have changed since 1978 when I last lived there. In those days, the entire stretch of the 405 was called "The San Diego Freeway" because that's where it went. Easy peasy. Did they really start naming random sections of freeways after people? I don't think I'd be flattered by that, nor would the cop who got killed on that stretch, either.
But it's your town now, have at it. I have a GPS now, who needs names?
Erm, apparently I've just repeated dogma who is exactly correct. Those of you whippersnappers who say you've grown up there and use the numbers were certainly not alive and living in LA during her heyday in the 50's, 60's or 70's. |
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PhilRojo SolPremium
join:2001-06-11
Downers Grove, IL
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| said by bobrk:Those of you whippersnappers who say you've grown up there and use the numbers were certainly not alive and living in LA during her heyday in the 50's, 60's or 70's. Born 1975 at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, so your statement is on target in my case. Anyways, I'm debating on taking the 1 or 101 for the ride home after work. I could even jump on the 23 south instead of taking the N9 like I normally would if I went 101. |
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 jig
join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA | reply to dogma
traditionally, women were whores if they wore red after 10pm, and anyone thinking the earth was flat was burned at the stake.
hinted-at nostalgia for unhelpful notions is extremely, detrimentally conservative. NV has had a very dramatic effect on you, dog.
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bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA | reply to Phil
I'm riding my bike for 50 minutes to get home. |
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PhilRojo SolPremium
join:2001-06-11
Downers Grove, IL
kudos:2 | What kind of bike? |
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dogmaXYZPremium
join:2002-08-15
Boulder City, NV
kudos:1 | reply to jig
Must be the heat out here. Or perhaps I'm gettin' old? And us old geezers like to pontificate on how it was when we were young (and more alive):
"See all those buildings over there? Back in my day, them's was bean fields. And that new housing development, wasn't nothin' there but a big open sand lot we used to play baseball on... kids now-a-days don't know nuthin 'bout actually playin' baseball...with all their computer games and what not. Back in my day, we would risk getting a spanking if we weren't back home by the time the street lights came on, now-a-days, ya gotta threaten your kids with a spanking just to get the little bastards outta the house!" |
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 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1 | reply to dogma
said by dogma:Referring to freeways by name is traditional.
It doesn't make you any better however, then those who refer to the 405 freeway, as the 405.
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Where I grew up, they're still bean fields. |
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bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA | reply to Phil
Mountain. |
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dogmaXYZPremium
join:2002-08-15
Boulder City, NV
kudos:1 | Nope! Gotta' refer to it by it's "model number". |
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jig
join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA | reply to dogma
there's nothing unhelpful about bean fields?
strike that. there's nothing unhelpful about notions of bean fields. much better.
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bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA Reviews:
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said by dogma:Nope! Gotta' refer to it by it's "model number". 2007 Novara Bonanza.  |
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said by dogma:Referring to freeways by name is traditional.
Don't know who started your tradition but... I was born in 1964 in Landcaster, moved to San Clemente and then El Toro by 1966 and have never called the freeways by name.
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