Posted on 12/06/2017 12:53:49 PM PST by Kaslin
Bump
I don’t know, I was raised in the Bay Area and always said “the”.
Maybe it was my mother’s Turlock upbringing.
I liv in Bakersfield and we have kind of a mixture. 99 is just 99. She lives right off 99. I-5 is I-5. Take Taft highway out to I-5. 58 is just 58. But when we get down south we refer to everything as the. The 405. The 5
We kind of mix it up. Lol
Even then it depended on which way you were going, if you were headed north on the 101 it was called the Ventura freeway, if you were headed south it was called the Hollywood freeway, just depended on where you were and where you were going.
Old Route 66 was actually Colorado Blvd in Pasadena and old Foothill Blvd. in Fontana.
When I first got to LA in ‘73, the signs didn’t have North, South, East and West on them. They only had city names. I still remember getting on a freeway and the only signage was “Santa Monica” and “San Bernardino.” Then another day it was “Long Beach” and “Pasadena.” I was driving, fuming, cursing the idiots that thought everybody knew where things were based on city names and fumbling with huge paper maps.
It took a long time to figure all that out. After a couple of years, I knew my way around pretty well and I relished the idea that other newcomers would “enjoy” their arrival as much as I did. I figured it was part of a sneaky initiation rite to see if you could really hack it in SoCal. Eventually, I got smart and moved to the SF Bay Area.
Wow, bi-lingual without knowing any Spanish! I’m impressed.
It’s ignorance to think that your sin will reap less punishment from God than someone else’s will.
Haha. Yep!
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Wow sorry to hear that. I was just kidding about the fire.
It was a joke.
Interstate Four hundred and five. Locals call it Four O Five... yes not Four Zero Five.
My people from the Hunter and Bailey lines sprung from Merced and Turlock. My daughter and grandbabies live in Delhi.
I wish I could spirit them out of that place and let California fall in the ocean.
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