We’ve seen the future, but where is...

We’ve seen the future, but where is it? Metrolink, a rail system planned for L. A. and surrounding counties, will be centered at L. A.’s Union Station. We just wonder how much it’s going to cost to move Union Station east of the Golden State Freeway (I-5). The Metrolink map seems to envision Union Station where the Glendale Amtrak station is currently located.

On the brighter side, several freeways are apparently going to be eliminated or shortened under the Metrolink plan.

Semi-uplifting news: Lingerie for Less says that “customers can trade in their old bras for a 50-cent credit toward any purchase” at the store in April. The L. A. retail chain “will then donate the trade-ins to the L. A. Mission women’s outreach for the homeless.”

List of the day: The most common last names among buyers of homes in L. A. County in 1991, as compiled by John Karevoll of Data Quick Information Systems in San Diego:

1--Lee.

2--Smith.

3--Garcia.

4--Martinez.

5--Gonzalez.

6--Rodriguez.

7--Johnson.

8--Kim.

9--Hernandez.

10--Williams.

So much for keeping up with the Joneses.

Once a Dorsey second baseman, always a Dorsey second baseman: The former law firm of attorney Howard Weitzman reached a settlement with ex-client John DeLorean on Monday, ending a dispute over legal fees. The public was thus deprived of what could have been a colorful trial.

Before the settlement, Weitzman, a former high school baseball player, had spikes flying when he came in for his deposition, which was reprinted in the L. A. Daily Journal.

--Edward Freidberg, DeLorean’s current attorney: “You did a brilliant job in the (DeLorean defense) case, but there are lots of attorneys that could do a job of that nature.”

--Weitzman: “You couldn’t hold my jock in that case.”

But will she speak in Bart? One of the celebrities in the L. A. Public Library’s “Night (and Day) of a Thousand Stars” today is actress Nancy Cartwright, who’ll be the guest reader at the Fairfax branch, 161 S. Gardner St., at 4 p.m. Cartwright is better known as the voice of TV’s Bart Simpson.

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The first transcontinental flight was made in 1911 by Calbraith P. Rodgers, who flew from Sheepshead BayY., to Long Beach in 84 days.