Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Signs of the Bay Area... Even Here!

Every now and again, I see something here in Cody that reminds me of the Bay Area.

Tonight I made that dreaded trip to Walmart. I wanted to go tonight instead of tomorrow night to try to avoid the mass of people that will undoubtedly be there tomorrow shopping for Thanksgiving. In the parking lot, I saw one of the few other BMW's that inhabit this area besides mine. This particular car is a late 80's E30 325i Convertible. The license plate frame on the rear of the car is proudly advertising for Allison BMW in Mountain View. Mountain view is on the Peninsula, North of San Jose and Sunnyvale. Mountain View is also home to Moffat Federal Airfield, and NASA Ames Research Center. Moffat is also home to one of the very few remaining Derigable Hangars, Hangar #1. Hangar #1 is about 250 feet tall and nearly 700 feet long, it's doors are so immense, that they ride upon what are essentially railroad flat cars. It also generates it's own weather, and it has been known to rain inside of it. I digress...

One day downtown, I saw a mid 90's Ford Bronco, it's license plate frame proudly advertising for Burlingame Ford. Burlingame is on the Peninsula as well. My good friend Sergei lives there in a quiet little neighborhood, where tiny little houses are worth 7 figures. Burlingame was originally a community made up of summer homes for people who lived in San Francisco way back in the day. It's just North of San Mateo, but yet far enough down the Peninsula to get out of the FOG that covers The City, South City, Daly City, San Bruno, and Pacifica during the summer, however it isn't nearly as hot as it gets in the South Bay near San Jose and Los Gatos where I used to live.

I also see this Black Chevy Stepside pickup here and there that has a bumper sticker on it for KSJO radio. The morning show DJ's, Lamont & Tonelli, as well as their comedy relief in the form of an Indian (dots not feathers) guy who was a former convenience store clerk, are very popular, mainly because of the madness that they inspire in the form of what used to be called Whip'em Out Wednesday. Wednesdays were a special day for commuters throughout the bay area. Somehow, these guys had convinced many young hotties to bare their breasts while in commute traffic to cars that were displaying the KSJO bumper sticker. I had one on my Ford Ranger for a while when I first moved there, but alas, no boobs for me... Lamont and Tonelli were a hit, and they wound up getting a better deal from a classic rock station further up the Peninsula, so now Whip'em Out Wednesday (W.O.W.) is now Ta Ta Tuesday (TTT). KSJO wasn't much without those guys, and their programming was most preferred by mullet headed Camaro and Trans Am drivers, which is why even though KSJO had been around for 30 some years as a rock station, it is now a Spanish language station!

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