IVIV (1) Channel View Estates

[Dave Monroe]

"... some chipboard horror known as Channel View Estates'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 8)


Channel View Estates

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—"If you lived here, you'd be home by
now"— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At
Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of
rampant Tubaholism from Vineland.

The Channel Islands are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

Channel View is an image manipulation option in Adobe Photoshop,
whereby a raster graphic is split into its constituent RGB or CMYK
color values (or channels) to allow for individual, fine adjustments
to the distribution of any of the graphic's 3 (or 4) basic colors.
Channels and channel masks are also useful for creating composite
images and transparency effects in Photoshop.

The name is perhaps intended as a telling contrast with "River View"
(or "Riverview"), a common name for neighborhoods, real-estate
developments and towns. Wolfmann's development is a "chipboard horror"
- basic tract housing for the newly middle-class - and it has no river
to view, only a drainage channel. "Ditch View Estates" might have been
more pointed, if less believable.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_8

Cf. ...

Fangoso Lagoons - A housing development, and one of Pierce's
investments. By chance, a commercial for it appears on the television
during Metzger's film 'Cashiered' [p19]. 'Fangoso' is a spanish word
meaning miry, muddy, slushy or sticky.

http://ohuiginn.net/docs/49.html