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Re: Looking for good July 4th celebrations in Bay area and LA area

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From: Sheila Wallace
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1992 18:02
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In article <1992Jun25.210420.380@unocal.com> stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>In article <128686@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> mauvais@fastrac.llnl.gov (Paul Mauvais) writes:
>>
>>I'm looking for suggestions on good fireworks/music displays in the Bay
>>area and also down towards LA -- if anyone could make suggestions, I'd
>>appreciate it greatly....
>
>One idea is to find a nice hill and watch a dozen shows from it.
>I used to go on hill behind Stanford, with a zillion other people,
>and watch up to 16 separate shows as far away as Half Moon Bay and Crissy
>Field San Francisco.  It can be chilly or mosquitos up there.
>
>This idea probably does work in the LA haze, although I saw a gorgeous
>sunset from a hill in Diamond Bar, San Gabriel Valley yesterday.
>As for fireworks, I just have to pop outside at 9:30 every night and
>catch the Disneyland show :-)

This does work for LA.  I once watched the fireworks from Palos Verdes,
on the northwest facing part of the hill.  It was fantastic -- you could
see about a dozen different fireworks displays at once.  I can't remember
the exact location, but I remember it being near an elementary or junior
high school.

Sheila


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Sheila Wallace		(shla@spf.trw.com)
TRW, One Space Park, R2/2162, Redondo Beach, CA 90278
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