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"Four Corners" In two locations?

How do I find "four corners"?

  • It's at the intersection of 35 & 84 (aka Alice's, STP, etc.)

    Votes: 74 30.2%

  • It's at the intersection of 9 & 35, right by the hotdog cart

    Votes: 140 57.1%

  • It's at the intersection of Grizzly Pk, Skyline, Claremont & Fish Ranch (for confused EB guys)

    Votes: 12 4.9%

  • It's right where Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico meet (for confused mormon guys)

    Votes: 32 13.1%

  • I can't find my ass with both hands

    Votes: 25 10.2%
  • Total voters
    245
funny, never heard anything but 9/35 called four corners. 35/84 is Alice's or STP. Let's end this once and for all with a poll :)
 
From the "Palo Alto Online"...(Link below)

For neighborhood communication, residents rely on a bulletin board posted at Four Corners, the name given to the busy intersection of Highways 84 and 35, where locals go to buy gas, convenience groceries and to dine. A recently opened art gallery offers a showcase for local professional artists.

On the weekends, the Four Corners is also a popular meeting place for motorcyclists, bicyclists, and hikers. One can meet tourists from throughout the world who have been attracted to the beauty of the area.

Towering redwoods, wildlife and rural tranquility attracted San Franciscans to build summer homes in Skylonda in the earlier part of the 20th century. Today, "a lot of professionals, Stanford professors and doctors, artists and musicians" populate the area, says Ms. Mayall.

"It's a lovely little community," says Hertha Herrington, a Skylonda resident since 1985

Read it and weep.
 
bpowa said:
does that cound cool to you?
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I thought the point of naming a place was that so people would know where you're talking about, not so that they'd know you were cool for saying it.
 
isn't there a spot around Berryessa that's called four corners?
It has a store and restrooms.

maybe it's called posers corner or sumpin like that.
 
TylerW said:
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I was going to do that one this way:

FourCorners3.jpg


:laughing
 
...and further more:

From "California Travels" website:

The area was called Four Corners. In the 1950’s it became a restaurant. Alice Taylor bought it in the 1960’s and named it after herself and the Arlo Guthrie song. It has been a favorite stop for bikers, cyclists and hikers for many years. Alice’s Restaurant and adjacent buildings were bought in the 1970’s and has been family run ever since.

Another nail in the coffin corner.
 
Poll added, m8! :teeth
 
The four has always been 84/35. We never stopped at top of 9 cause there was NO BEER there.
 
BillSmith said:
Funny, I only knew about 2 roads at Alices.

Perhaps a math challenged squid? Bistromathics at work? To him, up and down 84 & east and west on 35 equals...FOUR!
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You're too old school Bill. Now that we've had Alice's and STP there for oh...forever, we don't need another name to call it by. Now 9/35 does need a name, hence 4 corners.

Oh and in your statement above, it's 4 directions, but still only 2 roads, so the PA newspaper failed with their 4 roads statement, don't run with it.

Oh and one more thing...35 goes south/north, not east/west, that's 84 :teeth

flying_hun said:
Poll added, m8! :teeth
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Thanks for the poll Kurt :thumbup
 
I've always called the intersection of 35 and 84 "Four Corners" ever since I first started riding up there in the early 80s. But that wouldn't be the first of life's certainties that has changed since then... (looking for *sigh* smiley)
 
I beleive Hwy 9 and Hwy 35 is called Saragota Gap. I have seen it on older maps.

Hwy 35 and Hwy 85 is called Alices, STP and 4 corners (isn't the store called that?)

Jeff
 
while 9@35 looks more like "four corners", I always think of 35@84 when people say "four corners". Because of the confusion, I try to avoid using the phrase at all, and call 35@84 "Alice's", or specify "STP parking lot" if I'm meeting someone. I've been calling 9@35 "Hot Dog Gap" for years now, but it hasn't caught on yet.
 
Ilya,

I'm beyond "old school", pops lived in Boulder Creek during the depression. And I was being facetious in my rendition regarding the quoted squid's math (wasn't my statement) and directional skills. We need a tonuge-in-cheek smiley.

But I agree with you regarding the BARF convention of relegating STP/Alice's to one intersection and 4Corners to 9/35. "Hot Dog Stand" connotes something far more insidious and would be open to rampant ridicule. :rolleyes

I just adjust my dialect to reflect the audience. BARF = 9/35 = Four Corners
 
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