DavidE
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I-5 Northbound BUTTONWILLOW Delays All Summer
So says the news. Supposedly laying down lots of new concrete. "They" report backups of four miles but neglected to say if it occurred on a weekend,
or what time of day. Supposedly necks down to a single lane.
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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thebajarunner
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99 is a better highway anyway,
Not so chopped up by trucks, and it has lots more pit stops, etc.
Easy crossover at Chowchilla,
or in South Stockton
The mileage is identical on I-5 and 99 to my home,
I would never, ever consider 5,
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Marc
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Thanks. Good to know. When do they finish it up??
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redhilltown
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My friends got caught up in this going north this last Sunday and said it was brutal brutal brutal......sounds like good advice to steer clear for a
while.
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TMW
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The work will probably go into the fall as least. Stay off the 5 if you can. Take the 99 to the 46 but be very carefull on the 46 as there are many
headons by stupid driver. Or go further north on the 99.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by redhilltown
My friends got caught up in this going north this last Sunday and said it was brutal brutal brutal......sounds like good advice to steer clear for a
while. |
A buddy drives a set of doubles from downtown L.A. to Kettleman City. every day and says it's not too bad, one lane northbound from about 5 miles
south of Buttonwillow. Also southbound has 1 lane from Maricopa turn off for about 5 miles. I could imagine how the weekend must be.
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Just drove from El Segundo, CA to Fresno, CA using the 5 to the 99 and was wide open the whole way.
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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thebajarunner
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That "5" is not the problema
| Quote: | Originally posted by Howard
Just drove from El Segundo, CA to Fresno, CA using the 5 to the 99 and was wide open the whole way. |
You have to take 5 north over the hill
the problem is at the split at the bottom of the Grapevine,
5 north about 100 miles can be ugly
99 is always open
besides, from the split north for 250 miles......
I-5 has exactly one In N Out
99 has eight in that same stretch
I rest my case....
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J.P.
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I traveled that road 5days a week from Sac. to L.A, for 3 years I-5 was too rough I always went 99
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DianaT
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But I miss the old Orange Juice Stands on 99. 
Thanks for the heads up about the 5.
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bajaguy
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Orange Juice
| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
But I miss the old Orange Juice Stands on 99.
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Pixley, CA.................cold and delicious!!!!!!
Some Giant Orange trivia:
http://www.janeland.com/rootalph.html
Lonnie Marie Frago: My maternal grandmother. Daughter of Antonio C Frago and Docia May Jinkerson. Born 9 June 1901 in Two Dot, Meagher County,
Montana. Married to Lonzo McKinley Chapman. Mother of:
1. Hazel Marie Chapman Cleveland (my mother)(1918 )
2. Derwood Orville Chapman (1920 1998)
3. Patricia Lorraine Chapman Swanhart (1926 )
Lonnie married young (16) though she had been warned that Lonzo was a little wild and had "been to California." She worked in a shoe factory in St
Louis Missouri; during the Great Depression she worked as a cook for a wealthy St Louis family; and in the 1950's she and grandpa owned 2 "Big Orange"
juice stands, one in Pixley, California, and the other, a larger drive-in restaurant Big Orange with a fancy neon sign, in Ukiah California. Maria
Conceção Fragueira
And (with photos):
http://www.parzanese.net/weird/location.php?location=134
[Edited on 7-18-2012 by bajaguy]
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thebajarunner
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They were called "Giant Orange"
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
But I miss the old Orange Juice Stands on 99.
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Pixley, CA.................cold and delicious!!!!!! |
Our Modesto LIncoln-Mercury dealer, Elmo Wilson, got infatuated with them and bot a bunch, right at the end of their era.
Last one I saw was East side of 99 between Madera and Chowchilla.... they have been widening 99 thru their and I think it is gone,
Good memories.
Late 40's I was a little bitty lad, and I remember seeing them as the Old Man bombed down the old 99- we were from Washington and that was the first
four lane highway we had ever seen....
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DianaT
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As a small child when we had no a/c and it was HOT --- a time when it was VERY easy to overheat the car on what was the real Grape Vine, those orange
juice stands were a welcome site --- and it was a very healthful refreshment long before healthful was in vogue!
Thanks for that bit of local history!
[Edited on 7-18-2012 by DianaT]
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bajaguy
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Photos
Added a link with photos
^^^^^
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