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May 12th, 2006 by Kelson. Posted in Strange World and tagged for California, college, el toro, Fullerton, Irvine, Orange County, SoCal, universityA few days ago I was remarking on the signs by the side of the 405 indicating where to find the Cal State Fullerton El Toro Campus. This is odd for several reasons, namely:
- The signs went up years after the city of El Toro changed its name to Lake Forest.
- Having the two cities in the name makes it sound like “University of California, Colorado Campus.”
- From what I could tell, it wasn’t even in El Toro/Lake Forest—it was in Irvine.
Today I noticed that the signs have been changed to read “Cal State Fullerton, Irvine Campus.” That takes care of 2 out of 3, and the remaining one is at least logical, even if it sounds a bit odd. I mean, it’s a satellite campus, what else are you going to call it aside from the school name plus the location?
As for why they started out calling it the El Toro campus: it turns out it’s on the grounds of the former El Toro Marine Base.
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Reminds me of the University of California, up here in Pennsylvania. We also have Indiana University.
Interesting.
-n