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Article #198Re: California dining advice needed.
From: Steve Pope
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:16
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:16
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Karen O'Mara <ksoa650@yahoo.com> wrote: > mccomb@medieval.org (Todd Michel McComb) wrote >> The Grapevine, which is a mountain pass just north of Los Angeles, >> is indeed spectacular, but that's a very short portion of the drive. >> The rest of I-5 is as dreary as a highway can possibly be. >Grapevine is the name of a town at the base of the mountains, in the >southern part of the central valley. I don't think the naming of the >town had anything to do with the road, did it? But, since the road >curves up like a grapevine, a lot of people call it The Grapevine. I >don't think Southern Californians refer to this stretch of road as The >Grapevine, though... am curious to know what others say out there. Well, when I lived in SoCal, me and others around L.A. would refer to the steep stretch of the 5 (from the valley bottom to at least the first crest, if not the highest pass) as the grapevine. I think it's pretty common to do so, or was. Steve > >Karen
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110204,29810a57afa062f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid110204,public X-Google-Thread: fe8e7,29810a57afa062f8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe8e7,public X-Google-Thread: 115ce9,29810a57afa062f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid115ce9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-04 14:16:42 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!news.lightlink.com!wasp.rahul.net!blue.rahul.net!spp.a2i!spp From: Steve Pope <spope33@speedymail.org> Newsgroups: dfw.eats,ba.food,la.eats Subject: Re: California dining advice needed. Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: a2i network Lines: 25 Message-ID: <bvrqvq$6g9$1@blue.rahul.net> References: <3METb.614$JA5.75@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com> <1pGTb.645$n86.162@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com> <bvnd1d$1qh6$1@machaut.medieval.org> <2d2a67aa.0402041138.541e22fe@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net X-Trace: blue.rahul.net 1075932986 6665 192.160.13.9 (4 Feb 2004 22:16:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: support@rahul.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:16:26 +0000 (UTC)