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MM received the following comments about the new straight-ahead arrow on the corner of Wabash and the Boulevard:

Saw it last Saturday, the 18th, when someone waited at the red light in the lane at the limit line. No one was approaching from the South so I honked to let them know it’s legal to make a right turn on a red in California, after coming to a complete stop. They flipped me off and went straight when the light turned green. That’s when I noticed the new straight arrow added to the turn arrow. Not calming if you are trying to go North on Wabash and guy in front is going straight. Oh well, I’ll get used to it.

– Kelly Kieswetter

A few weeks back I was rolling westbound on Mentone Blvd aka SR-38 in my M-1 Tank and General Public observed that CalTrans had added the through arrow. Don’t know if it calmed me down any though, just got me more riled-up at those State guys anyway… they promised us that CalTrans would put in the street lights on the Blvd between Wabash and Crafton and that was over five years ago!

– General Public

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Good morning, Mentone Matters!

On old topographical maps, it shows that the former Southern Pacific Railroad branch line (that went through Crafton and ended at Greenspot) passed right by Lockheed’s Grand Central Rocket Company property.

I was wondering, please, if this now-abandoned Southern Pacific line actually served Grand Central Rocket Co. back when the facility was new in the 1950s — or was the Southern Pacific track already abandoned in this particular area by that period?

On a separate subject, are there any good photographs of Mentone’s Universal-Sanitary, later called Universal-Rundle during its heyday in the ’50s-’60s?

Thank you very much,
Isobel D.

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