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Anonymous Riot Nrrd said...

There are two cities named Brentwood in California, one (famous for two certain murders and one possible one) in the LA area and one up near San Francisco.

5/18/07, 1:17 AM

Anonymous New Yorker said...

In New York City, the only people with the words "New York" listed in their postal address are people living in Manhattan. This is a legacy of the fact that the city consolidated only in 1898, and everyone kept whatever their preconsolidation address. A plurality of New Yorker's still use "Brooklyn" as their mailing address.

5/18/07, 5:57 AM

Blogger Steve Setzer said...

A dale is a valley. So "Glendale" is also "Valley valley".

5/18/07, 6:06 AM

Anonymous Peter said...

The much bigger city of Glendale also means "valley valley," as dale is a dialect word from northern England that means valley (as in the expression "hill and dale.")

5/18/07, 8:13 AM

Blogger Ross F said...

The Australian city of Townville springs to mind.

5/18/07, 8:58 AM

Anonymous Peter said...

In New York City, the only people with the words "New York" listed in their postal address are people living in Manhattan. This is a legacy of the fact that the city consolidated only in 1898, and everyone kept whatever their preconsolidation address. A plurality of New Yorker's still use "Brooklyn" as their mailing address.

People living in Queens have it even more complicated. They can't use "New York" as the city name in their mailing addresses, for as you note that applies only for Manhattan, and unlike the residents of Brooklyn, the Bronx or State Island they can't use the borough name either. Queens is divided into three sections for postal purposes: Long Island City, Flushing, and Jamaica.

5/18/07, 1:03 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't forget the ever popular "La Brea Tar Pits." La brea of course means "the tar," so you're visiting the The Tar Tar Pits.

5/18/07, 1:53 PM

Blogger Anthony said...

Riot Nrrd - there is one city in California known as Brentwood, in the Central Valley (far eastern Contra Costa County). The other Brentwood is just a neighborhood of LA.

Speaking of redundancy, there is an incorporated city, near Palo Alto, called "Los Altos Hills".

5/18/07, 4:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

People living in Queens have it even more complicated. They can't use "New York" as the city name in their mailing addresses, for as you note that applies only for Manhattan, and unlike the residents of Brooklyn, the Bronx or State Island they can't use the borough name either. Queens is divided into three sections for postal purposes: Long Island City, Flushing, and Jamaica.

I'm in the trucking business, and I was going to say this. Whenever freight gets shipped to NYC, Manhattan is "New York, NY" The
Bronx is "Bronx, NY" Brooklyn is "Brooklyn" and Queens is always broken down further. I'm looking at a bill of lading right now to Long Island City, NY 11107.

5/18/07, 4:27 PM

Anonymous REO Spudwhacken said...

Anthony posits:

Riot Nrrd - there is one city in California known as Brentwood, in the Central Valley (far eastern Contra Costa County). The other Brentwood is just a neighborhood of LA.

but consider:

Date of Birth:
19 May 1959, Frankfurt, Germany more
Date of Death:
12 June 1994, Brentwood, California, USA. (homicide) more

However, another imdb entry has been apparently corrected from "Hawthorne, CA" (and not Hawthorne, NJ, home of another bleach blonde) and "Brentwood,CA", as such:

1 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Date of Death:
5 August 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA. (drug overdose) more

I have an uncle who lived in the Canarsie section of, I believe, Brooklyn (or was it the Bronx? Both starting with B, it confuses me...) who always used Canarsie, NY on his mail. It got there.

5/18/07, 7:06 PM

Anonymous Riot Nrrd said...

I think the "other bleach blonde" was born in Miami. Trick question: which made more movies?

The Beach Boys were, incidentally, from Hawthorne, CA, as well.

Most back of the tracks kids from the LA area will have "Hawthorne, CA" as their COLB city because that's where the public hospital is. Or was, for many decades. See John Gilmore's latest book.

5/19/07, 2:30 PM

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