My understanding is that “speed bumps” are illegal under the California traffic code, thus the places that put them in have to play little legal terminology games. You see “undulations” and “uneven pavement” and “raised crosswalks” and such instead.
The main industry is government, meaning the population is 90% state workers, who as a class make the prototypical Levittowner of the '50s look cultured and intellectual. Indy restaurants and stores can barely survive the stampedes to Olive Garden, Outback, Macaroni Grill and Target.
I won’t disagree that Lodi is a boil on the bull’s ass that is the central valley (I rescued Mrs. B. from there.) But the CCR song is indisputably about Lodi, California - I heard it from straight from Doug “Cosmo” Clifford, along with the back story of driving all day (and then all night, home) to play a shitty little club whose patrons kept yelling at them to turn it down. They were basically humming along with unpowered guitars by the end.
There is, or was a sign outside of Lodi that read something like “Green River ordinance enforced.” I forget what it was supposed to refer to - actually, I think it was something a bit “sundown town” and racist, but barely legal - but the common story was that it meant it was illegal to play CCR music there.
Oh, yes. The height of California freeway culture. Never could understand it myself.
