In Las Vegas Tract, Southland City Names Are Tread All Over

The names sound familiar: Cerritos Court, Hollywood Hills Avenue, Pico Rivera Street, Buena Park Street, Alhambra Valley Street, Glendora Valley Street....

But they’re not in the L.A. area; the streets are in the new Mountain’s Edge development in Las Vegas.

“Geez, not only are Southern Californians moving to Las Vegas,� columnist Tom Gorman of the Las Vegas Sun told me, “but now even our streets have been hijacked by you guys.�

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Air of unreality (cont.): The Vegas development even took liberties with its own name.

Gorman points out that Mountain’s Edge isn’t near mountains.

A neighborhood with Cerritos Court, Hollywood Hills Avenue and Pico Rivera Street cries out for a name more colorful than Mountain’s Edge, anyway. How about L.A. L.A.?

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Marquee hijacking? Either PTAs are less conservative than they used to be or someone altered a sign that Lois Sheridan of La Crescenta spotted in front of a local school (see photo).

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Fumble! Warren Ferrer noticed that a story on Pepperdine University’s website had John Wooden coaching the wrong sport (see accompanying).

I’m sure the Wizard of Westwood would have been a “legendary football coach� if he had tried that sport, but his specialty was the one where people throw balls through baskets.

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“Duh!� warning: John and Michelle Anderson enclosed some instructions that would seem to discourage the common practice of tanning oneself with a floor lamp (see accompanying).

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Thanks for the warning: Joy Chow of Anaheim hoped that one restaurant’s notice didn’t mean that the food was prepared at the table (see accompanying).

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Which reminds me: A friend was dining out when he bit into his chicken sandwich and tasted something suspiciously tough. He checked and pulled out a green piece of plastic -- a “best if served by ... “ tag. It had apparently come from the package that originally held his sandwich bread. He was somewhat consoled by the fact that the date was March 25 (and that the restaurant paid for his meal).

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miscelLAny: On the Santa Ana Freeway, I observed a car with the license plate PRIV EYE. I assume that’s not the car he uses on an undercover job.

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