Posted on 12/06/2017 12:53:49 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: We hear stories about fires in southern California all the time. They usually happen in the spring, late spring and the early summer, and they happen frequently enough that people don’t pay a whole lot of attention the farther away from the fires they live. But a fire started at 5:30 this morning out in California. I mean, this is Los Angeles, this is Bel-Air, this is Brentwood, potentially, this is Beverly Hills, potentially, Hollywood.
This is the 405, which is the busiest highway in America on certain occasions. It’s essentially a north-south artery. Your navigation system in your car will call it the 405, but locals call it the 405. It basically runs north-south, but it’s more north-northwest, south-southeast. It runs right by the Getty Center, and the fire is right across the interstate, right across the highway from the Getty Center. The Getty Center is one of the primary art museums in the area.
I take the route when I’m out there. This is the route that I take going to work every morning at 5:30, five a.m. straight out of Beverly Hills, hit the 405, zip up there. I’m not gonna tell you the final destination, ’cause that means the next time I’m there, there will be crowds outside the building. But that’s the highway I take to get where I’m going. They’re smirking in there on the other side of the glass.
But, folks, this is not out in some wilderness area. This is Bel-Air, the northern reaches of Bel-Air south of Sherman Oaks to what would be the east of the 405. Reagan lived in Bel-Air. I joke that the average home price in Bel-Air is $30 million.
There’s a guy named Gary Winnick who made a whole bunch of money in a funny way during the Clinton years. He was part of a fiberoptic company that was involved in some sort of shenanigans. He bought a $65 million home that overlooks the Bel Air Country Club. Every time I play the course, we all point it out, there it is, wonder what Winnick is doing up there. Similar, Michael Jackson’s home that he lived in when he died, Holmby Hills, are just right down the road from where this is taking place.
Now, the fire has not reached, at least when the program started, hadn’t reached far enough south to get to Beverly Hills or even the Bel-Air Country Club. You can look at this on a map.
If you find Mulholland Drive, which is big, Nicholson lived there, if you look at Mulholland Drive where it intersects the 405, you’ll see Sherman Oaks to the north and Bevery Hills, you’ll see where this is. This is not out in the valley. This is Hollywood. This is LA. This is bad.
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I don’t know, I was raised in the Bay Area and always said “the”.
Maybe it was my mother’s Turlock upbringing.
I liv in Bakersfield and we have kind of a mixture. 99 is just 99. She lives right off 99. I-5 is I-5. Take Taft highway out to I-5. 58 is just 58. But when we get down south we refer to everything as the. The 405. The 5
We kind of mix it up. Lol
Even then it depended on which way you were going, if you were headed north on the 101 it was called the Ventura freeway, if you were headed south it was called the Hollywood freeway, just depended on where you were and where you were going.
Old Route 66 was actually Colorado Blvd in Pasadena and old Foothill Blvd. in Fontana.
When I first got to LA in ‘73, the signs didn’t have North, South, East and West on them. They only had city names. I still remember getting on a freeway and the only signage was “Santa Monica” and “San Bernardino.” Then another day it was “Long Beach” and “Pasadena.” I was driving, fuming, cursing the idiots that thought everybody knew where things were based on city names and fumbling with huge paper maps.
It took a long time to figure all that out. After a couple of years, I knew my way around pretty well and I relished the idea that other newcomers would “enjoy” their arrival as much as I did. I figured it was part of a sneaky initiation rite to see if you could really hack it in SoCal. Eventually, I got smart and moved to the SF Bay Area.
Wow, bi-lingual without knowing any Spanish! I’m impressed.
It’s ignorance to think that your sin will reap less punishment from God than someone else’s will.
Haha. Yep!
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Wow sorry to hear that. I was just kidding about the fire.
It was a joke.
Interstate Four hundred and five. Locals call it Four O Five... yes not Four Zero Five.
My people from the Hunter and Bailey lines sprung from Merced and Turlock. My daughter and grandbabies live in Delhi.
I wish I could spirit them out of that place and let California fall in the ocean.
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