TRAVELING IN STYLE : SIDE TRIPS : The Name Game

Everybody probably knows by now that St. Petersburg used to be Leningrad, which used to be Petrograd, which used to be, well, St. Petersburg. But did you know that, if things had turned out a little differently, the Beach Boys might have sung about “The Little Old Lady from Indiana Colony”--or that you might now be reading the Yang-na Times? Match these California communities with their original names. (Answers below.) 1. Fishpond 2. Mound City 3. Zelzah 4. O’Shean’s View 5. Shore Acres 6. Mud Springs 7. Lordsburg 8. Campo Aleman 9. Apex 10. Picture City a. Anaheim b. Escondido c. Northridge d. Barstow e. Albany f. Agoura g. Manhattan Beach h. La Verne i. Loma Linda j. San Dimas Answers:1) d; 2) i; 3) c; 4) e; 5) g; 6) j; 7) h; 8) a; 9) b; 10) f