Some residents in Silver Lake could be...

Some residents in Silver Lake could be excused for feeling slightly disoriented. City signs identify two different East-West streets there as Avenel Terrace.

“We’ve complained to the city for weeks because it’s created problems,” said resident Bob Claunch, who lives on the real Avenel Terrace. “We had a robbery, and police went to the wrong address. I needed paramedics once and they had trouble finding my house. Another time an airport van showed up late because of the signs.”

Once, there was only one Avenel Terrace. But then, Claunch says, the short street’s sign had to be removed for construction. A crew later put it back up. Then a crew also put an Avenel Terrace sign at the nearby corner of La Paz Drive and Avenel Street (see photo).

Asked about the city’s latest Dueling Signs competition, a Transportation Department engineer said: “I told our field crews to check it out. I don’t know why it hasn’t been done.”

Maybe they got lost?

List of the Day:

Advertising blurbs of some local spiritualists:

1--Mrs. Julia . . . “Whittier’s best.”

2--Madame Dorothy . . . “The psychic that other psychics come to.”

3--Psychic Shop . . . “I will solve any problem in three days.”

4--Palm Reading by Rachel . . . “Bonded and city licensed.”

5--Barbara Showka . . . “22 years same location.”

6--Valley Psychic. . . . (“Valley Psychic” was all we needed to read).

One of those weird coincidences: Residents of Orange County who forget to dial the 213 area code when calling the L.A. Coalition Against U.S. Intervention in the Mideast instead reach . . . March Air Force Base near Riverside. One serviceman told an anti-war activist who mistakenly phoned the base that it was “about the 900th” wrong number of the day.

To put you in the mood for the California Seafood Festival, coming to Long Beach this weekend, we bring you up to date on Phil Turco of Whittier--world champion goldfish-eater.

Turco claims he’s gulped 339 at one sitting (the Guinness Book of World Records no longer touches this category).

“You just put them on your tongue and punch your tongue up to the roof of your mouth, and they just slide right down,” explained Turco, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

However, when he tried to break his record at a frat party the other night, he stopped at 211. The problem? Not his appetite. Or his technique. He complained that too many other party-goers had helped themselves to his supply of 600 fish.

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In the 1950 Oscar-winning movie, “Sunset Boulevard,” the mansion of silent screen star Norma Desmond is supposedly located in Beverly Hills on that fabled rue. Actually, the house was on the northwest corner of Wilshire and Irving boulevards, about six miles to the southeast. It has since been demolished. The swimming pool--built for the movie by the studio--was filled in.