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Peter-
     On this type of query, most of us will send our answers directly
to the person, rather then clutter up everyones E-mail on the list
serve.  Questions of a)more general interest, b)asking opinion either
on practices or activites, c)legal questions .... etc. are sent to the
list to join the pool, so everyone can learn.  After all, he just asked
where it was in CA.  I grew up the Bay Area, and sent an answer much like
the others.  Although I did check several places to make sure the folk in
Southern CA hadn't pulled another South Bay on us northerners.
     Middletown, CA:  384509N1223650W.  Lake Co.  pop. 2,000. Elev.
1,105ft/ 337m.  Post Office zip 95461.  Banking facilities.
     OK?
           Sue Trevitt-clark
           University of Oregon
 
 
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Peter van der Krogt wrote:
 
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> When I read the question about Middletown, Calif., I thought to look it up
> in my 1995 edition of the Rand McNally Road Atlas, but on second thought I
> did not do it. Considering the large amount of Americans on this list I
> thought being number umpteen with this answer.
> I am surprised on the answers referring to:
> - their high school team used to play ours
> - Columbia-Lippincott gazetteer of the world, 1962
> - Hammond's World Atlas (Ambassador Edition)
> - What is the zipcode for Middletown?
>
> Now I looked it up in Rand McNally, and indeed, it is in southern Lake
> County. The index even gives the number of inhabitants, 2000.
>
> I hope Darius Bartlett got off list a lot of references to road maps and
> atlases, otherwise Rand McNally and colleagues have to dismiss their
> advertising agencies :)
>
> Peter
>
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