>>Thomas,
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>>>Even in early 1975 you could drive from hiway 17 (now 880), to 101 which is about 7 miles and see nothing but Orchards. Now, it is wall to wall hi-tech!
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>>Yeah, some areas are hard to recognize...I have visited just about every year since I left...pretty nice to have that extension of Rte. 85...but, boy, do I HATE the traffic (oc, no one likes it....).
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>Jill;
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>Traffic? What traffic? I thought those were parking lots!
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>Tom

When I left my childhood home in Englewood, CO (south Denver suburb) the city limits were 5 blocks east. After that was corn fields. Now, one has to go 15 miles east to get out of the city.