Geographic Map Needs Updating

I’d have thought that the National Geographic, of all publications, could chart the location of a city as well known as Anaheim. But, no, the magazine is in the dark, judging from the card that Joe Ann Cantrell of Irvine received in the mail (see accompanying). Maybe it’s time for the Geographic to outfit an intrepid team of explorers to map the wilds of Orange County.

Possible explanation: It could be that, when the Geographic put together that mailing, it was working from a 19th century map, one that dated to the time when Anaheim was part of L.A. County.

Hair-raising discovery: Carole Reifer of Torrance noticed a salon that evidently specializes in tinting locks an unusual color (see photo).

Now that I think about it...: A while back, I published a snapshot of a young lady who might have had an appointment at the Green Hair Salon (see photo).

Sober thought: “Was the sign maker paid in cocktails ... in advance?” asked Joel Davis of the spelling on the outside of an L.A. saloon (see photo).

Why you can’t drive those 26 miles: A discussion here of tourists’ unusual questions about Catalina reminded Fred Miller of Harbor City of a brain-teaser that an acquaintance was asked: “Is there water on the other side of the island?” (Answer: “Yes. Actually, that’s what makes it an island ... “)

We play requests: Robert Sharp of South Pasadena notes that when KPCC and other radio stations give freeway reports, they announce, “Traffic brought to you by ... “ one sponsor or another. Sharp would like to ask those sponsors not to bring so much traffic.

Redundant infraction: The crime log of the Daily 49er newspaper at Cal State Long Beach said that “officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle at Whaley Park.

According to Capt. Skipworth: ‘The couple was found coupling.’

MiscellAny: You think T.J. Simers is rough on Southland teams? When the hapless Chicago Bulls left the Midwest to play (and lose to) the Lakers at Staples Center, a circus appeared in the Windy City.

“The circus comes to Chicago and the clowns leave town,” wrote the Chicago Tribune.

Added the Chicago Sun-Times: “And in an unusual twist, the elephants are the ones complaining about the stench left by their predecessors.”

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