🚀 go-pugleaf

Lee wrote:
> 
> Arne Adolfsen wrote:
> > IClast@JPS.Net wrote:
> > > I can write "101" or "110" or "010" or "011" having no idea whether any
> > > is right or wrong. I can write Jaliwud or Holiwod or Holliewould or any
> > > of many other spellings and know that, perhaps none is correct, each
> > > might be accurate for the road to take. Digital designations don't do
> > > dat.
> >
> > Huh?  Is Icono on drugs?  I know that the 101 is the Hollywood Freeway
> > southbound from downtown LA until it rather dramatically becomes the
> > Ventura Freeway (still as the 101) through that whole Cahuenga Pass
> > deal.  Fun fact: my father had to drive over Cahuenga Pass -- pronounce
> > that correctly, idiot moron -- from the San Fernando Valley to go to
> > work before the HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY was finished and got to see a whole
> > lot of the outdoor filming of "Spartacus" in the early 1960's on the
> > slopes of the Universal lot.
> >
> > Fun Question: What is the significance of, and where is, Campo de
> > Cahuenga?  (Hint for the location: cartoons.)
> >
> >
> > Arne
> > adolfsen@earthlink.net
> 
> Well, I used to drive Cahuenga Blvd. while they were building the
> Hollywood freeway.  BTW, the streetcar tracks had to be removed to put
> the freeway in.  Campo de Cahuenga is directly across Lankershim Blvd
> from Universal Studios and adjacent to the Red Line station.  It is the
> place where the Capitulation at Cahuenga took place and also known as
> the Treaty of Cahuenga that ended the secession of California from
> Mexico and it is the unofficial Birthplace of California.

Bravo!  I live two blocks away from a former diagonal pass-through for
the streetcars against the right-angle grid (it's now an alley, although
it has a street name) -- from Hollywood Blvd. to Santa Monica Blvd. --
but I'm really happy that they're going to reuse the rights-of-way on
Exposition for the new trolley from downtown to Santa Monica.

Arne
adolfsen@earthlink.net