IVIV (8): Downstairs Eddie

[Dave Monroe]

   "Meantime, Downstairs Eddie was going, 'Wow, this is your folks,
far out,' and so forth." (IV, Ch. 8, p. 114)


"and so forth"

u.s.w.
228; und so weiter (German: "and so on")

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=U

Et soforthiam (M&D, p. ?) ...


"'just don't get in any kitchens with this guy'"

?

"'That was back in '67 [...]  All those charges were dropped" ...


"a spot just down the hill good at least till midnight"

Night, the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_8#Page_114


Manteca

A friendly city located at the crossroads in the heart of California.
"the family city"

http://www.ci.manteca.ca.us/

Also known as the The City of Lard, Manteca is a city in the central
valley of California, about 80 miles east of San Francisco....

... Manteca's slogan is "The Family City", and it lies at a crossroads
of major highways and railroads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteca,_California