The town where I grew up is near the national studio industry and it’s very often featured in TV locations.
I’ll often interrupt viewings by remarking “There’s X Street” which mainly tends to annoy the wife.
I would say I’m 99th percentile at this although it’s almost useless in a world of everyone having a map and navigation in their pocket.
I often wonder if this skill is adaptive. I don’t think I would have made a very good spear-thrower in a Neolithic tribe. But I like to think I would have excelled at tracking game and navigation on long expeditions.
My favorite short part four is the 17th at TPC Scottsdale. It certainly does not share the same pedigree as Riviera, but I live in the area and it's a lot of fun to watch the Waste Management Open at the 17th Green. It's a drivable green, with water guarding the left and rear. Of course, the 16th hole gets all the publicity, but nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
> I’ve often wondered if golf courses serve as fire breaks. In Altadena, which was also ravaged, the trees on the Altadena golf course burned. <
If you're telling me the trees burned, I'll take your word for it. But I was looking at the CalFire maps pretty much daily during your little flamey escapade and it sure as hell looked like the Altadena course was providing a fire break. The fire did not seem to get south of it, whereas east or west of it, the fire seemed to march south burning house to house to house. Simple open spaces--without flammable material--have its uses.
California is an amazing place and climate. When I was a midwestern kid growing up, I thought I'd like to live in California. Maybe do research at one their great universities or national labs. I almost took a defense job there during the early Reagan era--Hughes actually. But in the end I've never lived there.
California has twice the population it did in 1970--a half-century when America's had sub-replacement fertility. But that is not because millions of heritage Americans moved and are living there. Rather it is full of a whole lot of random Mexicans, Asians, Jews, Armenians, Russians johnny-come-latelys. And the Democrats run it as a protection racket. "Pay us and we'll let you live here." It is basically lost to its rightful owners, the descendants of the people who fought for independence, pioneered, settled the prairies, built the railroads and conquered a continent and created America.
So goes California. So goes the America, Canada, Australia ... So goes the West.
Riviera's giant clubhouse is on top of a big hill. But it has less topography than LACC or Bel-Air (with its tunnels, bridges, and elevators to get you from one canyon to another). George C. Thomas did a really good job in the 1920s of making use of the topographical features that Riviera has. The top L.A. municipal course, Rancho Park, might have more interesting topography than Riviera, but I always felt like a better architect would have done more with it.
The town where I grew up is near the national studio industry and it’s very often featured in TV locations.
I’ll often interrupt viewings by remarking “There’s X Street” which mainly tends to annoy the wife.
I would say I’m 99th percentile at this although it’s almost useless in a world of everyone having a map and navigation in their pocket.
I often wonder if this skill is adaptive. I don’t think I would have made a very good spear-thrower in a Neolithic tribe. But I like to think I would have excelled at tracking game and navigation on long expeditions.
Life imitates art, er, architecture.
I hope the pilot filled in his divot
They could be firebreaks if they can get enough water to irrigate, but wasn't that half the problem last winter?
I guess they can remove the wing and truck it out. Do any golf courses include grass runways? Maybe in Alaska.
I would think it is weird to notice prominent golf holes, but I came here to comment that I also thought of Casino when this happened
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My favorite short part four is the 17th at TPC Scottsdale. It certainly does not share the same pedigree as Riviera, but I live in the area and it's a lot of fun to watch the Waste Management Open at the 17th Green. It's a drivable green, with water guarding the left and rear. Of course, the 16th hole gets all the publicity, but nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
> I’ve often wondered if golf courses serve as fire breaks. In Altadena, which was also ravaged, the trees on the Altadena golf course burned. <
If you're telling me the trees burned, I'll take your word for it. But I was looking at the CalFire maps pretty much daily during your little flamey escapade and it sure as hell looked like the Altadena course was providing a fire break. The fire did not seem to get south of it, whereas east or west of it, the fire seemed to march south burning house to house to house. Simple open spaces--without flammable material--have its uses.
California is an amazing place and climate. When I was a midwestern kid growing up, I thought I'd like to live in California. Maybe do research at one their great universities or national labs. I almost took a defense job there during the early Reagan era--Hughes actually. But in the end I've never lived there.
California has twice the population it did in 1970--a half-century when America's had sub-replacement fertility. But that is not because millions of heritage Americans moved and are living there. Rather it is full of a whole lot of random Mexicans, Asians, Jews, Armenians, Russians johnny-come-latelys. And the Democrats run it as a protection racket. "Pay us and we'll let you live here." It is basically lost to its rightful owners, the descendants of the people who fought for independence, pioneered, settled the prairies, built the railroads and conquered a continent and created America.
So goes California. So goes the America, Canada, Australia ... So goes the West.
Pretty amazing that everyone survived and no one was killed on the ground. But couldn't he find a par five?
Steve you mentioned once that golf courses are much more 3D than they appear on TV. I bet this pilot is now aware of that too!
Riviera's giant clubhouse is on top of a big hill. But it has less topography than LACC or Bel-Air (with its tunnels, bridges, and elevators to get you from one canyon to another). George C. Thomas did a really good job in the 1920s of making use of the topographical features that Riviera has. The top L.A. municipal course, Rancho Park, might have more interesting topography than Riviera, but I always felt like a better architect would have done more with it.
Bro didn't even need to replace his divot --- so gentle