Post #571154 by Okolehao on Fri, Jan 7, 2011 6:17 PM

When I was a kid growing up in So Cal we'd occasionally drive up thru Ventura county and I still remember looking out to just the other side of the gigantic rotating neon Wagon Wheel Junction sign (you could see that thing for miles at night) and seeing the tall palms and high A-frame of the Trade Winds calling to me. Dad never would stop for dinner because 'It's too damn expensive'. Oh well. At least he'd take us to Kelbos.
BTW: I drove past The Junction on a trip over the holidays and it practically made me cry to see what's happened to it, and the rest of the 101 corridor there. I'm sure bongofury would agree with me that the greatest example of a city destroying it's scenic identity has got to be Oxnard's absolute orgy of retail all along the freeway from Ventura to Camarillo. The rock band America described how beautiful it used to be in their 70's song 'Ventura Highway'. Now it's just disgusting.