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What’s in a Town’s Name?

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COMMENT 48365	2009-12-05 09:55 AM
Oxnard has had a long-time movement to change the name to Channel Islands Beach. Another movement to have the southern and western portion of that city secede (split) has been on and off during the past few years.
COMMENT 48389	2009-12-05 11:15 AM
Where were those photos of oil seepage taken?
COMMENT 48396	2009-12-05 11:52 AM
The tomol (Chumash plank canoe) that John P. Harrington built with Fernando Librado has been on continuous exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, NOT the Smithsonian Institution, since the late 1970s. You can find out more about Harrington and the Chumash at the Santa Barbara Museum website http://www.sbnature.org or visit in person -- and don't miss the wonderful research library
POWDRELL	2009-12-05 12:21 PM
Thank you for the update, Comment 48396, regarding Harrington's tomol being at the SB Museum of Natural History, not the Smithsonian Institute. I better get over there.
COMMENT 48400	2009-12-05 12:21 PM
But then where would all the Oxnerds live?..:-)
POWDRELL	2009-12-05 12:25 PM
...oh...and the photos of the tar seepage were taken at Tar Pits Park in Carpinteria near the state campground.
COMMENT 48407	2009-12-05 01:13 PM
"What's an 'Oxnard?'" -- Johnny Carson
COMMENT 48413	2009-12-05 01:55 PM
Ah, gee, Oxnard is fine. 50 years ago the first time I heard it I thought it was peculiar, like Lom-`poke', and La Jolla (that was a fun one to learn to pronounce).
COMMENT 48429	2009-12-05 05:33 PM
Keep towns with funny names! I've been quite fond of the name 'Oxnard' ever since a friend of mine who lived there named the scum eating bottom fish in her fish-tank 'Snard.'
COMMENT 48437	2009-12-05 06:33 PM
I must say I'm in favor of no change. The last city name change I remember was Grover City to Grover Beach. I think they should have kept it as Grover City. Ox Nard is perfect for this area.
PROGRESS	2009-12-06 06:43 AM
And according to a linguistics professor, I learned that "Ojai" is the Chumash word for "moon." Another Chumash derivative of that is "Auhay", a street in Noleta.
COMMENT 48460	2009-12-06 07:09 AM
South-Central Ventura.
COMMENT 48463	2009-12-06 07:21 AM
hmmm...someone named Powdrell suggests a name change for someone else?
COMMENT 48464	2009-12-06 07:22 AM
I like the nicknames we all come up with for our area towns. A few from my circle are: Santa Barbara: Santa Babylon, Babeylon Solvang: The Vang, Slovangria, Skeevervile, Mayberry Oxnard: The NardCore Carpinteria: Carp, tarpiteria
COMMENT 48467	2009-12-06 07:45 AM
I don't know, Oxnard kind of fits.
COMMENT 48471	2009-12-06 08:38 AM
Oxnard is also well known as "The 'Nard". When I was growing up in LA we all thought Oxnard not only sounded funny but was at the end of the civilized world, beyond the Pale so to speak. How about "Snob a Babara"?
COMMENT 48472	2009-12-06 09:02 AM
I like "BULLNUTS"
COMMENT 48474	2009-12-06 09:28 AM
Back in the 70s there was a funny DJ named Dr. Demento, who came up with bizzare recordings. On was "Oxnard"; it had the touching refrain: "...under a Port Why-nee-me Moon".
COMMENT 48484	2009-12-06 11:19 AM
I've always felt that Santa Maria and Goleta should swap names. Goleta is such an ugly sounding word compared to the beauty of its land (yes I know what it means) while Santa Maria is a beautiful name for a not so beautiful place. Oxnard sounds like what it is...A place to avoid.
COMMENT 48485	2009-12-06 11:22 AM
Santa Maria was Central City California untill the civic boosters got the name changed to the more romantic Santa Maria.
SBJULES	2009-12-06 11:49 AM
I was born in Oxnard. I say keep the name!
COMMENT 48507	2009-12-06 01:06 PM
Central City sounds like something out of my favorite Steinbeck novel, "The Wayward Bus."
COMMENT 48597	2009-12-07 11:10 AM
Why put lipstick on a pig?
COMMENT 48603	2009-12-07 12:00 PM
Lipstick on a pig....that's one of my favorite sayings. Last night my wife and I were in the CVS on State St. near Figueroa. This used to be a Longs, and it has always been one of my least favorite drug stores. Very depressing, poor layout. I have to say that after CVS took over Sav-on and Longs, they did a good job improving almost all of the stores. This one on State St. is the exception. Like my wife said last night, the changes they made were like putting lipstick on a pig.
COMMENT 48604	2009-12-07 12:08 PM
Sorry...that had nothing to do with the topic. I like "Oxnard"...it's funny to say. When I lived in Massachusetts there was a nearby town called "Athol", and you pronounced it just like a__hole, but with a lisp.
COMMENT 48779	2009-12-08 10:37 AM
I've lived in Lompoc since 1961, my wife, her Mother and our children were born here. Funny that the name Lompoc was fine, no mention of changing it up until the early / mid 90's. That's when all of you Santa Barbarians (my name for it) couldn't afford to live there so what did they do? Moved to Lompoc, then they started with the towns to small, no cultural events, no expensive stores, no malls, the wind blows to much or whatever else these transplants could find to complain about. Yup, that's the first time in my almost 50 years of living here that someone wanted to get on the bandwagon and change the Lompoc name. Leave it to the people of SB to want to change things to suit themselves, always on a mission, even though it doesn't concern them.
SEEDLADY	2010-03-29 08:23 AM
how DO Lompocians pronounce the town's name? Always been confused about it... Lahm-poke? Loam-poke?

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