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> Jeez, now I feel like a geezer.  I've always called 'em by their
> names:   [ Santa Monica ...  Bernardino ...  Ventura ...  Hollywood ...
> Foothill ...  Pomona ...  Glendale ...  Simi Valley ... ] etc...
> Pasadena Fwy

Of course, the Pasadena should properly be listed first, since it's the
oldest one ...

> The names are not only mnemonic but for the most part tell you
> something about where you're going or coming.  I280 in the bay area is the
> "Junipero Serra Fwy" from San Jose to San Francisco -- pretty name and
> road but not descriptive.

Yeah, few of the official names for Bay Area freeways or bridges are
helpful at all: they're mostly named after dead guys that no one has
ever heard of:  John Foran, Arthur H Breed Jr, Bagley, Sinclair,
Rumford, Luther Gibson, Robert T Monagan, John B Williams; and several
are named after dead guys that I actually *had* heard of:  Luther
Burbank, Nimitz, Portola, Earl Warren, J Arthur Younger, James Lick, and
of course the abovementioned Serra.  But nobody uses those names.  Which
made for a pretty cool match-em-up trivia quiz for those of us who drive
too much, in the Bay Area.

Which by the way I wrote up a few years ago and I'd be willing to send
out or post if there is any interest (ca.driving seems like a more
appropriate newsgroup, though, and I've directed followups there).
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