Danny Gomez, age 3, accused of driving...

Danny Gomez, age 3, accused of driving without a license, driving without proof of insurance and running a stop sign, appeared before San Pedro Municipal Judge Pro Tem Sebastian Ernandez Friday.

“Danny said, ‘It wasn’t me. I don’t drive,’ ” said his mother, Kathy Gomez.

Ernandez threw out the ticket.

Danny’s mother still hasn’t figured out who was joy riding in her Mercury Monarch when it was stopped by police in April. Neither, for that matter, have the police, who are reviewing the paper work. The driver, who said he was 20, told officers that he was Danny Gomez and gave them the youth’s address.

Coincidentally, Gomez’s 13-year-old son Carlos has also been in the news recently. He received a Courageous Citizens Award from the district attorney’s office for helping capture a purse snatcher.

“I guess,” she joked, “I’ve got a gangster and hero for kids.”

Frank Sinatra, Gerald Ford and George Burns have streets named for them in Southern California. KLOS-FM disc jockeys Mark and Brian settled for a driveway.

“They mentioned it (their wish to be immortalized) on the air about a year ago,” said spokesman Steven Smith, “and a lot of people said they’d do it, but there was always too much red tape involved.”

Unable to find any available concrete in L.A. County, the duo got their wish when Rick Andres, owner of the Village Meadows apartments in Santa Ana, re-christened a driveway there as the “Mark and Brian Expressway.”

Maybe someday Mark and Brian will be enshrined by KABC’s Ken and Bob in the Ken and Bob Starfish Walk of Fame on the Redondo Beach Pier.

You never know who--or what--is going to be parked next to you in a mini-mall, as Marian Tanaka noticed the other day in Culver City (see photo).

Congratulations to 13-year-old Sonya Wang of Camarillo, and Steven Wang, 14, of Palos Verdes Estates, who were among 226 youngsters to reach the finals of the National Spelling Bee in Washington.

Each bowed out in the fourth round, Sonya tripping on jeremiad (a tale of woe) and Steven flubbing tagraggery (a collection of heterogeneous people or things).

Still, their performances were impressive when you consider that 9 million kids entered the competition, a tagraggery if ever there was one.

The latest bumper-sticker backlash:

You may have noticed this vulgar vehicle banner, more often seen on trucks: “---- Happens.”

Well, a car on the Pomona Freeway Friday displayed a rejoinder:

“Good Stuff Happens.”

It was a station wagon.

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There were no saloons or bars in Whittier between 1887 and 1953.