Ojai
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at verizon.net
Fri Sep 11 09:34:07 CDT 2009
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:28 -0400, Paul Mackin wrote:
> 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
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> Cam are ILL oh
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shoulda said Cam are REE oh
OOps
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