How to get around in Chico.
Chico is, in case you didn't know, is "The City Where A Map Does No Good."
Here's an explination:
1) Saying to meet someone "on the corner of Second" is no good. You see, a lot of cities have numbered streets (First Street, Second Street, etc.) or numbered Avenues (First Avenue, Second Avenue, etc.) Chico, not being satisfied with one or the other, went on ahead and decided to have both numbered streets and numbered avenues. To top this off, First Street and First Avenue are less than a mile apart than each other. Thankfully, they run laterally to each other and don't intersect. That could make the problems even worse. ("Meet me on the corner of Fourth and Fourth." "WTF?") The Chico State campus lies between these two numbers throughfares.
2) So, you're crusing along Ivy Street in the Streets. That's cool, until you start driving through the campus. Then, when you get close to the Avenues, you look at a street sign and mumber "What the..." because now it's says you're on Warner Street. Congrats, you've discovered this street's dirty little secret: It magically changes name through campus from Ivy to Warner. This was done to kiss the figurative heinie of Warner Bros. Studios after they shot "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Eroll Flynn in Chico's own Bidwell Park (not to be confused with coffee shop chain Bidwell Perk).
3) Thought the Ivy/Warner street fiasco was bad? It can get worse. Imagine you're cruising into Chico from the freeway by way of Highway 32. All of a sudden, bang...now you're driving on Nord Avenue. You shrug your shoulders, since cities often give state highways street names through town...but does it switch the names without warning? Chico does. A couple of miles after Nord Avenue pops up, the street magically becomes Walnut Street. That's three miles, three different names.
4) Like trees? You'll love the names of Chico streets. Because there's a whole hell of a lot of them with tree names: Here's just a partial list: Chestnut, Hazel, Cherry, Oragne, Walnut, Oak, Fir, Cypress, Olive, Pine, Poplar, Alder, Sycamore, Cedar, Ash, Hickory, Oleander, Aspen, Camellia, Elm, Laurel, Hemlock. There are a couple of other names related to trees, such as Ivy and Hooker Oak.
Here's an explination:
1) Saying to meet someone "on the corner of Second" is no good. You see, a lot of cities have numbered streets (First Street, Second Street, etc.) or numbered Avenues (First Avenue, Second Avenue, etc.) Chico, not being satisfied with one or the other, went on ahead and decided to have both numbered streets and numbered avenues. To top this off, First Street and First Avenue are less than a mile apart than each other. Thankfully, they run laterally to each other and don't intersect. That could make the problems even worse. ("Meet me on the corner of Fourth and Fourth." "WTF?") The Chico State campus lies between these two numbers throughfares.
2) So, you're crusing along Ivy Street in the Streets. That's cool, until you start driving through the campus. Then, when you get close to the Avenues, you look at a street sign and mumber "What the..." because now it's says you're on Warner Street. Congrats, you've discovered this street's dirty little secret: It magically changes name through campus from Ivy to Warner. This was done to kiss the figurative heinie of Warner Bros. Studios after they shot "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Eroll Flynn in Chico's own Bidwell Park (not to be confused with coffee shop chain Bidwell Perk).
3) Thought the Ivy/Warner street fiasco was bad? It can get worse. Imagine you're cruising into Chico from the freeway by way of Highway 32. All of a sudden, bang...now you're driving on Nord Avenue. You shrug your shoulders, since cities often give state highways street names through town...but does it switch the names without warning? Chico does. A couple of miles after Nord Avenue pops up, the street magically becomes Walnut Street. That's three miles, three different names.
4) Like trees? You'll love the names of Chico streets. Because there's a whole hell of a lot of them with tree names: Here's just a partial list: Chestnut, Hazel, Cherry, Oragne, Walnut, Oak, Fir, Cypress, Olive, Pine, Poplar, Alder, Sycamore, Cedar, Ash, Hickory, Oleander, Aspen, Camellia, Elm, Laurel, Hemlock. There are a couple of other names related to trees, such as Ivy and Hooker Oak.
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