Los Angeles has a strip only as wide as the Harbor Freeway connecting it to the port and San Pedro.
In the UK, the “thing with burners” (or more likely a ceramic surface with induction magnets) is called a hob. Ovens seem to work on both sides of the Atlantic, but “range” here usually means a larger appliance with one or more ovens and five or more “burners”.
From Wiki:
At the turn of the century, Dr. Henry S. Durand owned a summer camp in Irondequoit. He and his friend George Eastman saw a need for a public park in the area, and towards this end, bought a number of farms around the Durand property. On January 28, 1907, they offered their land to the city of Rochester, “to be used as a public park forever, a tract of land of about 484 acres situate in the Town of Irondequoit on Lake Ontario”, thus giving the common citizen rights to nearly a mile of public beach and adjacent lands on the Lake’s shoreline. One year later the land was transferred to the city.
An easement through Irondequoit was needed when the land was transferred. Then the city decided it wanted to control access to the park and it included Culver Rd. (the orange line going north) and Woodman Rd. in the authorization package. Just the roads were sufficient. The homes and buildings are part of Irondequoit. Not sure why Wiki says that was one year later. Everything took place in 1907.
The little bump to the east of Culver Rd. is a sewer line to Irondequoit Creek that the city also acquired in 1907 as part of the package. I’d say deal, but it was a seizure and the town of Irondequoit was bitterly opposed. Sea Breeze and its amusement park are in Irondequoit, however, because the city turns west from Culver to Woodman a mile earlier.
That gave Rochester a second public beach on the lake, the first being what is now Ontario Beach Park, a port area that was in the separate village of Charlotte, which Rochester annexed, along with a corridor on both sides of Lake Ave. north to the beach. That corridor does include land as well as the road.
Ontario Beach Park is a literal name, as Rochester definitely borders Lake Ontario.
In January, 1938, the village of Bonfield, Illinois, banned a variant of Rummy. Which forced the card sharps to go underground.
The researchers were unable to determine what happened to any of the involved parties, or the law, after those few days in January.
The long history of bizarre town ordinances reminds me of the petty despotism of HOAs. For a libertarian, the local ordinance is at least as great a threat to freedom as any overweening tyrant’s dictates.
Wouldn’t a local ordinance decided by a small group of locals be the preference of a Libertarian over a Federal mandate?
“whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy”
No doubt there are some anti-federalists who are also libertarian, but the typical anarchist is just as concerned about local tyrants and those far away in Washington.
But that’s not usually what happens at an HOA. It’s Karen, the HOA President, not allowing deliberation at meeting, enforcing rules that may not even exist and if they do beyond reasonableness (see previous as to why stupid rules never change) and install herself and her husband as HOA President & Vice-President for life. It ain’t no city council.
What usually happens at an HOA (99.99%) is they share in paying for road maintenance, sewer and landscaping in the common area. Those crazy Karen stories are exceptional so they go viral.
According to this Wiki page, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand and Bobby Fischer were classmates. Must have been something in the water.
Not Susan and her cousin again? It’s better, I guess than listening to Linda from accounting yammer about her dog!
My wife did daycare when our kids were small. One of the mothers was going through a rough patch and would often pay us in her surplus government cheese. It was amazing! Government peanut butter was even better! I would gladly pay for those products on the open market.
Yes, I’m a board member of my townhouse complex’s HOA and at least 99% of what we discuss is how to maintain and pay for maintenance of the common areas.
Did that water extend from Brooklyn to Berkeley, California, since Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin were also in the same high school class (in another school), as is mentioned in a previous post?
Exercise treadmills often have an adjustable incline to simulate hill climbing. I had always thought that this feature was rather silly, because it seemed obvious to me that climbing a real hill is much harder than running on an inclined treadmill, since in the former case you’re actually doing work to raise your body against Earth’s gravity, while on a treadmill you’re just staying at the same altitude and doing no vertical work.
I recently ran across this video by Steve Mould in which he discusses this issue and to my surprise he convinced me that I was wrong. Running on an inclined treadmill is just as much work as running up a hill with the same slope (ignoring minor effects like wind resistance). It still seems very counterintuitive to me and I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around it.
I don’t run, but I walk for exercise, often on a treadmill at the Y. I can tell you that walking on even a slight incline is more work than walking on the flat walking track!
“High Street is the most common street name in the UK, which according to a 2009 statistical compilation has 5,410 High Streets, 3,811 Station Roads and 2,702 Main Streets.” - Wikipedia.
“The most common street name in the U.S. is Second Street, followed by Third Street and First Street. The prevalence of “Second” is often due to many towns having a “Main Street” instead of a “First Street”. Among unnumbered names, “Park” ranks 5th, and “Main” 7th. Among Presidents. “Washington” is 17th, and “Lincoln” is 26th. What’s The Most Common Street Name In America? | FiveThirtyEight
(it seemed that almost every hotel I stayed in in western Europe was on “Rue de la Gare” or “Bahnhofstrasse”) 
I’ve seen that before, but I have to wonder about it. Are there many towns which have a Second Street but no Third Street? I’d expect that if there are only two numbered streets, you’d call them something other than numbers to begin with. On the other hand, I have seen at least one town (Bozeman, MT) with a Third Street but no Second Street, because the streets that would have been First and Second both had other names.
That’s a variation on Opal’s Rule
Santa Barbara has a Quinto (Fifth) but no other number street. All of the others were apparently renamed over time.
In Canada, Calgary has a “Centre St” (N & S) dividing the E and W quadrants. Various streets (including “Centre Ave” (E & W), and the Bow River divide the N and S quadrants. Streets and avenues numbered “1” exist in all quadrants.
Edmonton is centred by 100th Ave and 100th St.
Montreal has several sets of numbered streets (dating back from annexed/merged towns), and they all seem to have “1”s.
Vancouver has only E/W numbered streets, and it has a “1” (E & W).