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Where is LAGOL, CA
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Larry Scholnick
Dec 11, 2012, 7:30:51 PM12/11/12
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I like to think that I know where everything is in Southern California, but I was watching the 11PM News on one of the L.A. network affiliates recently and they gave the weather for Lagol. Lagol? Where the heck is Lagol? And if I don't know, is there anyone out there in the stations's audience who does?
Indeed, a quick visit to Google Maps (or others) finds that Lagol, CA is just west of Moorpark, CA (about where the railroad tracks cross CA-118 between Grimes Cyn and Balcom Cyn).
Is there anyone in our reading audience who actually knew where Lagol was without consulting a map or GPS? Was there ever anything there such that anyone might remember the name LAGOL?
I have occasionally seen local weather reports include weather for Sandberg, but at least there was once a hotel there (southeast of Gorman, CA near the intersection of Old Ridge Route and Pine Canyon Road), so some longtime Angelenos (local term for L.A. resident) might remember where Sandberg was.
For the rest of you (outside of Southern California), does your local TV news give weather reports for places that you (as a geographically-aware person who follows this newsgroup) have never heard of?
Indeed, a quick visit to Google Maps (or others) finds that Lagol, CA is just west of Moorpark, CA (about where the railroad tracks cross CA-118 between Grimes Cyn and Balcom Cyn).
Is there anyone in our reading audience who actually knew where Lagol was without consulting a map or GPS? Was there ever anything there such that anyone might remember the name LAGOL?
I have occasionally seen local weather reports include weather for Sandberg, but at least there was once a hotel there (southeast of Gorman, CA near the intersection of Old Ridge Route and Pine Canyon Road), so some longtime Angelenos (local term for L.A. resident) might remember where Sandberg was.
For the rest of you (outside of Southern California), does your local TV news give weather reports for places that you (as a geographically-aware person who follows this newsgroup) have never heard of?
Paul D. DeRocco
Dec 17, 2012, 1:26:04 AM12/17/12
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in the desert, where there are few actual towns to confuse things, there
are names shown on the maps every five miles or so. Most were just
places where they could pick up water or coal for the locomotives, but
the RR companies gave them all names.
Lagos is one of those. A 1903 USGS topo map shows Lagos Siding, Ternez
Siding and Fremontville between Somis and Moorpark. Fremontville was an
actual neighborhood.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
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Kenny McCormack
Dec 17, 2012, 8:47:15 AM12/17/12
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In article <T8WdnWLYnbiNJlPN...@earthlink.com>,
Interesting stuff.
Out of curiosity, is there any connection between this Lagos and the one in
Nigeria?
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"The anti-regulation business ethos is based on the charmingly naive notion
that people will not do unspeakable things for money." - Dana Carpender
Quoted by Paul Ciszek (pciszek at panix dot com). But what I want to know
is why is this diet/low-carb food author doing making pithy political/economic
statements?
Nevertheless, the above quote is dead-on, because, the thing is - business
in one breath tells us they don't need to be regulated (which is to say:
that they can morally self-regulate), then in the next breath tells us that
corporations are amoral entities which have no obligations to anyone except
their officers and shareholders, then in the next breath they tell us they
don't need to be regulated (that they can morally self-regulate) ...
Out of curiosity, is there any connection between this Lagos and the one in
Nigeria?
--
"The anti-regulation business ethos is based on the charmingly naive notion
that people will not do unspeakable things for money." - Dana Carpender
Quoted by Paul Ciszek (pciszek at panix dot com). But what I want to know
is why is this diet/low-carb food author doing making pithy political/economic
statements?
Nevertheless, the above quote is dead-on, because, the thing is - business
in one breath tells us they don't need to be regulated (which is to say:
that they can morally self-regulate), then in the next breath tells us that
corporations are amoral entities which have no obligations to anyone except
their officers and shareholders, then in the next breath they tell us they
don't need to be regulated (that they can morally self-regulate) ...
Larry Sheldon
Dec 17, 2012, 11:17:38 AM12/17/12
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Idioten aangeboden. Gratis af te halen.
h/t Dagelijkse Standaard
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Harry K
Dec 17, 2012, 11:53:15 AM12/17/12
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It is odd how those names show up. I was a county dispatcher for 10
years working with a far more experienced one. Got an accident
callone night on an "LP Johnson Rd". Neither of us had ever heard of
it, finally located it on the county map. Short road, 2 residences.
Within a month we had two more calls for that location. Then never
heard of it again.
Same for what was a small town back in the days of settling hte
country. Was down to one house and a crossroads the first time I got
a call for the location. Couple weeks later got another one there.
Never heard of again.
Harry K
Kenny McCormack
Dec 18, 2012, 12:11:53 PM12/18/12
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In article <aj8ut2...@mid.individual.net>,
Larry Sheldon <lfsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
...
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Modern Christian: Someone who can take time out from
complaining about "welfare mothers popping out babies we
have to feed" to complain about welfare mothers getting
abortions that PREVENT more babies to be raised at public
expense.
Larry Sheldon <lfsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Out of curiosity, is there any connection between this Lagos and the one in
>> Nigeria?
>>
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>"Lagos" is Spanish for "Lakes".
Thanks. That explains that.
>> Nigeria?
>>
>
>"Lagos" is Spanish for "Lakes".
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Modern Christian: Someone who can take time out from
complaining about "welfare mothers popping out babies we
have to feed" to complain about welfare mothers getting
abortions that PREVENT more babies to be raised at public
expense.
Charles M.
Jul 18, 2022, 3:10:46 PM7/18/22
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Lagol was a coal & water stop for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and my wife and I own the northern 45 acres of the former "town". All that's left of the original buildings is an abandoned bunkhouse on the south side of 118 (not ours), where the water tower once stood, and some sort of storage for coal. On our side is the foundation and septic tank from another bunkhouse that burned to the ground around 1910 from what I understand. At least this is the info that I have, and so far I've found nothing that disputes it.
Charles & Kay (Thunderbolt Farms)
Charles & Kay (Thunderbolt Farms)
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