Truth in City Names! (Los Angeles, San Francisco: houses, shop, train station)

[Winston Smith]

Manteca = Lard. Truth or fable? I always wonder about names like Fairview, Grandview, Planeview. Or is that Plainview? Planeview I guess is on top of the parking garage at Burbank Airport. What the heck is a "bur-bank" anyway?? It's next to Glendale, which from what I'm told is neither a "glen" nor a "dale"! And what about all of the San and Santa cities? Any saints left or is it all Sodom and Gomorrah? God knows Los Angeles is hardly that!

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Thousand Oaks = Have not counted them all lately but they used to have a lot of them.

[ProgShred]

I know how Long Beach got it's name. I've seen pictures of LB from the 1920s I think, and that section of Shoreline Drive where they have the Gran Prix, was not there. All of that area is landfill. Before that, it use to be a long straight beach from one end of LB to the other.

I think Montebello means "Mountain View." Well, there is a view of the SG Mountains.

Mesa Verda must've looked like a Green Table at one time.

I've never seen a seal at Seal Beach, but I've seen one at Redondo Beach.

Eagle Rock got it's name because at a certain time of the day, the shadow of some big rock is supposed to look like an eagle.

[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by ProgShred

I've never seen a seal at Seal Beach, but I've seen one at Redondo Beach.

Redondo "round" Beach. Is it?

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

For that matter, so are Orange County and, if translated from the Spanish, Los Angeles.

Yeah, and I doubt if Los Angeles ever had many angels. Strangely, though, Orange county has a whole team of 'em!

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by Winston Smith

Manteca = Lard. Truth or fable? I always wonder about names like Fairview, Grandview, Planeview. Or is that Plainview? Planeview I guess is on top of the parking garage at Burbank Airport. What the heck is a "bur-bank" anyway?? It's next to Glendale, which from what I'm told is neither a "glen" nor a "dale"! And what about all of the San and Santa cities? Any saints left or is it all Sodom and Gomorrah? God knows Los Angeles is hardly that!

Burbank was named for Luther Burbank, who did a lot of work in horticulture. He even has a potato named for him which, strangely enough, is not grown in Burbank.

[Gidget]

Actually, Burbank was named for Dr. David Burbank who was a dentist. Yet, oddly enough, one of the junior highs is "Luther Burbank," instead of "David Burbank." Go figure.

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by Den Mathias

Hey, and Oakland has very few oaks. Maybe it should be named Portland or ?

Oakland is well named. It has 3,183 acres of parkland. To put that in perspective, Manhattan is approx. 15,168 acres.

Half Moon Bay is so permanently overcast that your chances of seeing any moon are pretty remote.

South San Francisco is not contiguous to San Francisco and has very little in common with it.

East Palo Alto is actually geographically north of Palo Alto. They should go back to the "Ravenswood" name.

El Sobrante means "the leftover." I always thought that was amusing, but it's accurate as it's the part of the Richmond hills that Richmond didn't care to take.

Concord once produced lots of grapes, but not so much anymore. They should keep the name as a reminder of what once was.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by Gidget

Actually, Burbank was named for Dr. David Burbank who was a dentist. Yet, oddly enough, one of the junior highs is "Luther Burbank," instead of "David Burbank." Go figure.

Really? I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Gidget

Actually, Burbank was named for Dr. David Burbank who was a dentist. Yet, oddly enough, one of the junior highs is "Luther Burbank," instead of "David Burbank." Go figure.

"The town of Burbank, California, does not take its name from Burbank, but from the Los Angeles dentist David Burbank."

from

Luther Burbank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia