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Re: Game Hint #2

Last night, after dinner out with friends, including CDs resident Grammar Curmudgeon, the beautiful KarenH and I were musing on the #2 clue as we drove home. Since it was still fairly early and we only live about 10 minutes away (in good traffic, like at 9:30pm) we decided that the best way to extend the evening was to go see what is really on Colorado in Paramount, CA. Boots (or tires) on the ground beat internet speculation any day.

Colorado Ave parallels Paramount Blvd, a major north-south street in the area. It is one short block west of Paramount. Most of the lots on the Paramount side are commercial and most on the west side are some form of residential. There are exceptions in both cases.

Colorado Ave has three sections.

The Northern section has a children's dentist and the back side of several businesses. Including a furniture store and a mexican restaurant. The rest of the lots are multi-family residential (duplexes)

South of Roscrans, a major east-west street, Colorado Ave gets swallowed into a giant swap meet for several blocks. The middle section is mostly residential but there were two businesses of interest. One was a printer (one way to make your mark) and the other a gasket store called Bentley's. The gasket place also deals in appliances and HVAC equipment. The east side of the street had some apartment buildings and the west side was mostly single family homes. This section ends as the back way into a strip mall on Paramount.

The southern section ends between City Hall and the local hospital (the body shop?). In about the middle of this section is the place in the attached picture. Across the street was some kind of equipment yard with many high lift forklifts, lighting trucks and other heavy equipment. It had a gate onto Colorado, but it was apparently not the main entrance. This area seemed to be small manufacturing/commercial but there were not many names on buildings and it was hard to tell were one place ended and the next began. Zamboni seemed to take up their entire block. They are BTW at the corner of Colorado and Madison. A coincidence? There was also a lumber yard in this area, the main entrance was on Paramount but they had a back gate onto Colorado.

While there are other things it could be, Zamboni (whether it applies to the ice resurfacing machines or their apparel line) is a strong candidate as the answer to this part of the riddle. But what does it tell us about the game? that we will be playing on a slippery surface or one that needs to be reconditioned frequently? or just that they are saving money by not turning the heat on in the arenas? Anybody want to make detailed investigations of the other locations?

Time to go do something useful, before I have to go visit Bentley

ChrisH
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