CCCC MAFS
Again, there is some truth to where this apartment would be located. MAFS (Military Advancement Furtherance School) is a nod to NPS, Naval Postgraduate School here in Monterey… The college is MPC… Monterey Peninsula College… There are other colleges… and those not mentioned at this time. So, locals…. any idea what neighborhood (in real life) that apartment would be in? (if this was a non-fiction situation)…?
When I lived in Pacific Grove, I heard “the bugle” every day at 5pm…. didn’t hear morning bugle… thank goodness.
Ryan’s got another problem… With the new school year just underway, a lot of the apartments are going to be taken.
That neighborhood between MPC and NPGS isn’t so bad. If you want a low-rent noisy neighborhood for Ryan’s new digs, look at the Monterey/Seaside border, right next to the fairground, under the flight path to the airport. Fairground gives opportunity for all sorts of arcs. You can have Ryan hear the Cypress City Jazz Festival every fall. 🙂
Hmm. Seems as though Rye’s looking at an apartment close to Monterey’s Lake El Estero (paddle boats, an island that you can paddle to but are not “allowed” to land upon, Dennis the Menace kids park (with a giant train engine that is fenced off for “safety” reasons), a little league ball park with stands inside and a super snack shack outside, a YMCA community building and pool, a large park-like Catholic cemetary and chapel, a hillside barbecue area with lots of grass, trees and ducks, a dog park, a skate park, an excercise par course, a running/walking track, sculptures and fountains, a visitor tourist bureau office, a mission-styled McDonald’s on one side, a grassy park with beach volleyball courts on another side that is called “Window on the bay” and allows view of the beach and ocean on it’s other side).
Pete… Good point, only the college is a community commuter school in real life, which I attended and from which I graduated. We used to call it “El Estero Tech” due to the aforementioned lake at the bottom of its hillside. Everyone commutes and the place is dead quite from mid-afternoon on.
Erk. Oops, I ment to type that the place is dead “quiet” from mid-afternoon on. By the way, the other school, The Naval Postgraduate School, in real life, is fenced for security, teaches engineering at masters and doctoral levels and is a homeland security training center for officers. Not much revelry, a.k.a. “noise,” comes from this place either. In Cypress City, however, things may be a bit more lively. Future comics will tell all.
I love the combination of kid’s park and cemetery! My Mom (who is 91) says it works well because the dead folks seldom complain about the kid’s noise. I like that she said ‘seldom’ instead of ‘never.’ My mom rocks.
jude… That’s funny.
I myself like the warning signs by the parking spots on the cemetery side of the park’s road. There are really tall mature trees there, eucalyptus I believe, and the signs warn that you are responsible for any damage done by branches falling on your car. The spots are free and typically filled.
a tiny bit of trivia regarding your “cccc”…between 1951 and 1978 there really was an orgaization on the central coast that had those very initials…it stood for “central california communications corporation” and it owned ksbw tv, am (1380) and fm (102.5), and the salinas city cable tv system.
Pete… there is the competition. But Ryan’s rental history is probably a lot more stellar and would shine on an application.
JC… I wouldn’t mind livin’ there… but not by the Fairgrounds… Not with all the airporting.
stick… El Estero Tech. Hmmm… I have been on campus and have only been over to the arts and humanities parts of campus… Theater, language classrooms, dance “hall”, art rooms… are there other parts of the campus? (tongue in cheek).
Jude…. Ha ha… dead people and noise… Noisy dead people… complaining about children… there’s a toon.
Firedome… CCCC…. interesting.
I’m surprised Ryan didn’t get hung up on the alliterative use of revelry and reveille in the same sentence. 😀