Explain To Me "Inflation" Again?
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Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
DeathTrap (405)
DeathTrap II (105)
DeathTrap III (10)
DeathTrap IV (110)
DeathTrap V (91)
DeathTrap VI (710)
How did I do?
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Yeah they do, but they don't get used often by people under 70 lol.
101 = Bayshore Freeway
280 = Juniperoserra Freeway
580 = Nimitz Freeway
380 = 280/101 Interchange
1 = Pacific Coast Highway
17 = US Route 17
ect
Unlike LA, we don't say "the", and since people stay in at night in most of the Bay Area, I've done 55 miles at night on 280 between the SFO and the Southern tip of the SJC metro and not passed a single damn car probably 50+ times in my life. Gets real quiet in the wee hours on week nights on the Peninsula, but the East Bay is always hectic since everyone can afford to live there(ish) haha. That is something that tripped me out about SoCal, there isn't much "privacy" in much of it as warmer weather + lower cost of living + much more dense population sprawl + no fear of the homeless boggeyman = people up and out all the time.
By 2300 here, it feels like a walking dead set to explore in the hills above SFO where I can do anything. Hell, a metro of about 10 million and most bars are closed by 1AM on Saturday night. Even MSP stays open later than SFO, but...then again anything open past 1AM without security quickly becomes a homeless encampment here. That is why we no longer have a single 24 hour Starbucks within an hours drive of SFO (in fact Starbucks decided to curb the homeless issue by also making the problem stores take out ONLY so you can't even sit and study at them). The secret is steep hills. The steep hills ward off the homeless because that is 900% effort on heroin. Its never sketch atop the hills. Sucks for the peons below.
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San Diego, Ventura, Hollywood. No idea what numbers go with them either, as I’ve never lived in L.A. I just know those three because I still watch reruns of CHiP’s! LOL!
sorrygottarunway
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to mentor a few area kids here in NYC, and while I can help them with the PHAK/AFH stuff, and general "career path" advice, I'm at a loss at how to connect the dots of "how do I pay for this, and how do I get to farmingdale/HPN/CDW each day." It's a dollar number that I would have not been capable of paying when I was their age.
CHiPs was cool in that they did all the episode filming on parts of the freeway system that were being built at the time and hadn’t opened yet. Kind of neat trivia.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Same with Speed. 110/105 intersection.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Yeah that would be the 110.
Truth. Watching the reruns you can really tell. Some of the lines aren’t painted yet, and some of the exits are closed.
Ooh! I hadn’t noticed those details. Rerun episodes are on in the middle of the night here, I’ll have to watch some of them.
Always have to have the episode opening sequence with the mass vehicle accident that usually involves some 1970s custom van in some dramatic rollover accident that causes a mega pileup.
A300Capt
Freight Dawg
I was right there with you! 1978 for me…
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
This is the key nut to crack; have foreseen similar roadblocks here.
No matter how much time you donate as an instructor and a mentor, there is no getting around how goddamn expensive it is to put a aviation appliance in the air.
knot4u
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I used to fly the old Rotax powered Katanas just for fun and to stay proficient. The problem is SoCal can get pretty hot in the summer, it was always a bummer when I'd schedule one and I'd show up at the airplane and that temp sensitive sticker in the cockpit attached to the spar was the wrong color. I was never charged for it but I was willing to put up with the greenhouse on the ground to get up in the air, those were fun little airplanes.
knot4u
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That was THE 210 and sometimes THE 118.
knot4u
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The 710 is the Long Beach Freeway. They both start near the downtown LA area and end down in the San Pedro/Long Beach Harbor area. They just take different routes to get there.
knot4u
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I think the fact that all of the freeways in SoCal have actual names is the reason why people historically didn't refer to a freeway numbers very often and if they did it would feel awkward to say it that way, everyone grew up referring to the Ventura freeway (101), the Foothill freeway (210), the Harbor freeway (110), the Golden State freeway (I-5) or any other freeway by their name and not their number. These days many folks don't even know the names of the freeways and refer to them by their numbers but they still use the old vernacular of "the". Sometimes it makes no sense, when the 118 was built it was named the Simi Valley-San Fernando freeway, that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue so everyone just referred to it as the 118, in '94 unbeknownst to almost everyone that didn't commute daily on it the name was changed to the Ronald Reagan freeway. Simi has always leaned a bit conservative with a higher than average percentage of first responders and other conservative folks so I'd suspect the majority of the folks commuting were not put off by the name change. The Ronald Reagan freeway, boy I'll bet that gets some people salty these days.
I would only remember names when I’d hear KFI 640’s Eye in the Sky Bruce Wayne, or after his fatal plane crash, Mike Nolan, when they’d use the names and sometimes numbers, in their traffic reports.
knot4u
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Were you listening to those broadcasts in Phoenix? You spent some time doing traffic reporting from an airplane didn't you? I'd imagine studying up on what was happening in the bigger radio markets was probably smart. There might've been some smoke and mirrors back then. I'm not going to say who, where or any other identifying info but I might've worked in a hangar that might've also rented space to a news helicopter and sometimes when the June gloom set in it was not uncommon to walk by their office and hear helicopter noises and someone pretending to yell into a headset about a traffic jam 30 miles away, I'd look over the wall of the mezzanine and see the aircraft sitting on its pad in the hangar and just shake my head and continue on with whatever I was doing.