Make/take a left/right, etc.

FRITZ JUENGLING juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US
Thu Oct 3 19:09:27 UTC 2002


Peter,
you remember that nearly every exit off I-5 used to point the driver toward "Ocean Beaches."  I don't know whether this is true, but alledgedly some out-of-staters thought that Ocean Beaches was a town.  Of course, it's not--it's the beaches that are on the ocean.  Well, I have not seen Ocean Beaches in a while. I think all the signs now read "Oregon Coast."
Fritz (who goes to the 'beach,' not the 'coast')



>>> pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU 10/03/02 11:43AM >>>
On US Hwy. 26 heading west into Portland from Mt. Hood and points east,
there is a sign for an exit that takes you to Oregon City and the town of
Boring.  You guessed it--the sign reads:

Boring
Oregon City

As a resident of the latter locality, I'm always inclined to comment, as
The New Yorker might once have done, "Just give the directions, please!"

Peter Mc.

--On Thursday, October 3, 2002 8:00 AM -0400 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> On the JFK Parkway in Maryland north of Baltimore (just north of the
> Susquehanna River if I remember correctly) there is a sign
>
>      NORTH EAST
>      RISING SUN
>
> designating an exit for the towns of North East and Rising Sun.
>
>
>        - Jim Landau



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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