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- You know you are from Ventura when:
- You’ve corrected people who say ‘Two Trees”, to inform them it is really ‘Five Trees”.
- You still call the newspaper the Star-Free Press
- You remember where Taylor’s Ranch was.
- You have biked or skateboarded down Palm, or worse yet, learned to drive.
- You’ve eaten Tony’s Pizza and Johnny’s Burritos.
- One of the best cheap lunches was at the Chinese Gardens downtown. Great booths and the tea lady.
- You say that someone lives ‘out in” Saticoy, ‘out on’ the Avenue or “up in Ojai, but you say that people live ‘over in’ Oxnard.
- You know where Hobo Jungle is.
- You know where the Top Hat Hamburger Stand was.
- Retarded Children’s is not an offensive remark, it’s the thrift store.
- You think Fair Day should still be an October school holiday.
- Your phone number was something like Miller 3-4567.
- You’ve eaten at Loop’s at 2:00 a.m.
- You’ve danced at the Green Mill Ballroom and the Ban Dar.
- You remember when Ventura had a real river.
- You remember when the road went under the pier and the water temperature was posted at the bait shop where Erickson’s is now.
- You know why Meta Liquor and the Meta Motel were on Thompson Blvd.
- You know Cemetery Park is really still a cemetery.
- You still haven’t figured out what you can do to replace a drive to Candy Cane Lane at Christmas.
- You still call the Ventura Library the EP Foster Library.
- you miss the 101 Drive In.
- You remember May Henning School.
- You wish Chase Brother’s Dairy would still deliver to your front door .
- You remember the Helm’s Bakery truck that brought donuts, and those drawers full of donuts.
- You’ve had many barbecue’s at Camp Comfort or Foster Park and caught tadpoles in the streams there.
- You understand the four seasons: Flood, Fog, Santa Ana’s, and Fire.