Ojai

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 09:08 +0200, umberto rossi wrote:
> I refer to the chapter when Doc visits the Kryskylodon or 
> Chryskylodon, I mean the nuthouse in Ojai with a Greek name which 
> should mean Golden Fang, I'd like to know from listmembers in the 
> LA area if this is just a place where such sorts of insititutions can be 
> found, because the place is mentioned right at the start of one of P.K. 
> Dick's non-sf novels, Puttering About in a Small Land, and there is a 
> private school with innovative teaching methods (the novel's set in 
> the mid-Fifties, and it also talks about tv-sets).
> _____________
> umberto rossi
> 

I remember in  my youth the word Camarillo denoted the place they put a
person with a mental condition (case of nerves). Later learned it was a
town up Ventura way where the state mental hospital was. Not too far
from Ojai.

Bird lived there a while.

Both given a spanishy pronunciation.

OH hi

Cam are ILL oh