Re: Father's Pad Thai, Santa Monica

Article View: la.eats

Article #676

#676

From: Lee
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:26

36 lines
3018 bytes

Arne Adolfsen wrote:
> Julian Macassey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:50:16 GMT, Arne Adolfsen <adolfsen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > And science tells us that Vanowen (one word, doll)
> >
> >         You really should do more reserach before you flail
> > around here. If you drive down Van Owen (runs past Frys), you
> > will be amused to see that some street signs say Van Owen and
> > some say Vanowen.
> >
>
> I grew up a couple of blocks from Vanowen -- one word, boyfriend -- in the '50s
> and '60s and lived there until the mid 1970s.  (You want to know: near the corner
> of Woodman and Saticoy; Valerio and Sherman Way and Roscoe were the next big
> streets.)  I couldn't give a fuck about some electronics geek store in Burbank.
> You were clearly writing about some restaurant in North Hollywood:
>
[snip]
> Arne
> adolfsen@earthlink.net

Much as I don't want to, I have to say Arne is right.  It is "Vanowen"
not "Van Owen".  Like Arne I grew up in this area, (was in the first
class to graduate from James Madison Junior High).  I just recently
drove length of Vanowen from Buena Vista in Burbank to White Oak in
Reseda,  no signs say "Van Owen".  It is not a persons name, it is a
contraction.  From America's Suburb:

"Vanowen Street
Coined because it was the direct route across the Valley between the
towns of Van Nuys and Owensmouth."

Lee

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1136399166.368131.146460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail

References:

<qo80r15csc9m6nmm2piuf25532v13g577b@4ax.com> <dorq24$c7t$1@news.Stanford.EDU> <dorus5$44r$1@agricola.medieval.org> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512281539150.27810@flora02.slac.stanford.edu> <dovhto$n0n$1@news.Stanford.EDU> <slrndr81th.8e1.julian@bongo.tele.com> <k738r1pkmb8avf950hskg9m1k1tc8r7374@4ax.com> <43B413A9.2E3255D2@earthlink.net> <slrndr87ln.db0.julian@bongo.tele.com> <43B5BB17.B72F9BBB@earthlink.net>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Thread: 115ce9,47b6c943597bea0f
X-Google-Thread: fe8e7,6f2fb8fb4608d8ac
X-Google-Attributes: gid115ce9,gidfe8e7,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: "Lee" <leem@znet.com>
Newsgroups: la.eats,ba.food
Subject: Re: Father's Pad Thai, Santa Monica
Date: 4 Jan 2006 10:26:06 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 37
Message-ID: <1136399166.368131.146460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
References: <qo80r15csc9m6nmm2piuf25532v13g577b@4ax.com>
   <dorq24$c7t$1@news.Stanford.EDU>
   <dorus5$44r$1@agricola.medieval.org>
   <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512281539150.27810@flora02.slac.stanford.edu>
   <dovhto$n0n$1@news.Stanford.EDU>
   <slrndr81th.8e1.julian@bongo.tele.com>
   <k738r1pkmb8avf950hskg9m1k1tc8r7374@4ax.com>
   <43B413A9.2E3255D2@earthlink.net>
   <slrndr87ln.db0.julian@bongo.tele.com>
   <43B5BB17.B72F9BBB@earthlink.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.79.37.57
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1136399182 20584 127.0.0.1 (4 Jan 2006 18:26:22 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:26:22 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <43B5BB17.B72F9BBB@earthlink.net>
User-Agent: G2/0.2
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.79.37.57;
   posting-account=1HFl_gwAAAAnOLHeYr_UkhrC4H4MbFjC

Reply to Parent Message