Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

[Frank Mayhar]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:38:56 -0800, cryptoguy wrote:
> On Dec 12, 10:49 pm, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
> > In the hills east of Los Angeles there used to be a Nike missle
> > base.  I don't know how far east; I've never been there.  But I
> > have a copy of the brochure they have for it now, when it's part
> > of the state (county?) park system.  Nothing left but the
> > foundations, but you can see where they were, and the brochure
> > explains what they were.  It starts by explaining to the kids
> > what the Soviet Union and the Cold War were.
>
> Those exist all over the place, to the north of major cities. There's
> one in Bedford, MA, which I've visited. The site is now used by
> Harvard for large animal research.
>
> I think there's even a Google Earth overlay that shows them.

There are actually two not too terribly far from where I live here in
LA. One in Redondo Beach where Wilderness Park is now (near Prospect and
El Camino Real) and the other on Palos Verdes up the hill from Long
Point, where Rancho Palos Verdes city hall is.

(The coolest thing I've seen in this vein, though, was the Farm That
Wasn't a Farm right on the coast in Northern California. It was a WWII
radar facility made up to look like a farm; I discovered it by accident
on a vacation there a number of years ago.)
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