{"id":2355,"date":"2009-09-25T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2021-11-23T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T13:34:13","slug":"coronas-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/coronas-corona\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona&#8217;s Corona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of my posts start off something like this: &#8220;I was looking at this map and I noticed something odd\u2026&#8221; Right, that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to go today too. In this instance I was geo-tagging a pile of old photographs I\u2019d scanned and loaded into iPhoto. Then I stumbled upon a perfect little circle of very unusual diameter in Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Big Circle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As I drilled down from space it blossomed into Grand Boulevard. The City of Corona sat squarely in the bull\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d13250.201761389137!2d-117.566414!3d33.875475!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1586609663129!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The size of the circle is peculiar for a couple of reasons. First, I haven\u2019t seen many ring roads of this approximate diameter and level of perfection. I\u2019ve certainly found my fair share of smaller loops such as roundabouts or traffic circles. I\u2019ve even driven double-roundabouts such as this particularly evil one shown below outside of Brisbane, Australia <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=23965\">on the way to Mount Coot-tha <\/a>several years ago. Here&#8217;s that awful thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d1769.8596489017755!2d152.982903!3d-27.477997000000002!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1586609919635!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize the European and Australian readers are laughing at this point because roundabouts are an integral part of daily life. However, this is unusual for many of us in North America. Consider further that driving on the left side of the road would get me arrested back home. It\u2019s was traumatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There&#8217;s Bigger of Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve also experienced much larger rings like the ones that bypass large cities. Lord knows I\u2019ve spent untold hours sitting on this particular circle, the infamous Washington &#8220;Beltway&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/VwFQsSe64NBkW3h9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) in all sorts of horrific traffic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/91499534@N00\/6927006557\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7063\/6927006557_6abc3ce3e8_b.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Beltway : Evening Rush Hour. Photo by ehpien; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Rush Hour on the Washington Beltway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A medium-sized circle like the one in Corona, however, is a bit of a stranger to me. Even so I tried to tease a little normalcy out of it. So I figuring I could probably align it to some standard or unit like a mile or a kilometre. Unfortunately the diameter didn\u2019t seem to match an integer or even a common fractional approximation of either unit as I eyeballed the situation. I was completely confounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Math?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s necessary to go back to what we learned in Middle School. Let&#8217;s use the equation for the circumference of a circle (C=2?r). Remember thinking back in those days that you\u2019d never need geometry and promptly forgot about it? Me too. As it turns out, here we find a real-world application. This forms a nice, precise three mile circumference if you believe the city. Obviously I didn\u2019t get in my car and drive it so let&#8217;s take them at their word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still can\u2019t explain why the street pattern didn\u2019t run North-South \/ East-West either. Instead it\u2019s as if someone rotated the circle slightly clockwise. Then they put a weird jog in Main Street smack in the middle. It\u2019s so precise in some respects, yet so flawed in others. Crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1586611020964!6m8!1m7!1swN8T8cSdEeSqFzjGJcdB0Q!2m2!1d33.87178677941719!2d-117.56009529298!3f217.44!4f-4.450000000000003!5f0.5970117501821992\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>Driving along Grand Boulevard. Notice the gentle curvature on the horizon<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course I had to find out more about the entire situation, and thankfully the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronaca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City\u2019s website<\/a> provides a little clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Taylor hired Anaheim engineer H. C. Kellogg to design a circular Grand Boulevard three miles round. Early residents used to parade their fancy buggies on this circular street that enclosed the main functions of the community: schools, churches, residences and stores\u2026 The name &#8216;Corona&#8217; was suggested, standing for the circle within the City and the connotative crown.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It Gets More Interesting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Corona has many different dictionary meanings including circle and crown, as well as the fuzzy halo of light that appears around the moon during a total solar eclipse. It\u2019s also a beer made in Mexico with a crown on the label and a lime sticking out the top. <b><sup>(<a href=\"#footnote\">1<\/a>)<\/sup><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hisgett\/31840990445\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/621\/31840990445_2f09d73753_b.jpg\" alt=\"Stutz Indianapolis 500 Special 1915 2. Photo by Tony Hisgett; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The article goes on to explain further that international automobile races were held on Grand Boulevard in 1913, 1914, and 1916. They drew crowds of up to 100,00 people to a town of only 4,000. The city halted races thereafter because it was too expensive and, well, deaths resulted from the 1916 event. It does seem to be just about racetrack size. However, I don\u2019t see any banked curves so maybe that was for the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronaca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/blog\/city_of_corona_seal-1.gif\" alt=\"City of Corona, California Seal. Source: City of Corona\" width=\"377\" height=\"375\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What I found particularly interesting is that the city apparently derived its name from the shape of the road rather than the other way around. The theme subsequently carried forward to the city seal and even to its nickname, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=corona+circle+city&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=#aq=f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Circle City<\/a>. Are there other places where this has happened? Are there other perfect little rings like this? Let me know and I\u2019ll add a map in the comments section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That can\u2019t possibly be a common occurrence, but then again, it\u2019s not a common road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">12MC Loves Footnotes!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a name=\"footnote\"><\/a><sup>(1)<\/sup> I attended a beer lecture a number of years ago given by the late Michael Jackson (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson_(writer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the beer writer<\/a> not the one-gloved wonder, although that would probably have been just as entertaining if not more so now that I think about it). At the conclusion he took questions from the audience, and someone asked him to name what he considered to be the worst beer on the planet. Without even a millisecond of a hesitation he answered, &#8220;Corona&#8221;. When pressed for an explanation, and in consideration of the multitude of beers to choose from, he explained that Corona probably starts out tasting like any other mass-marketed light lager. However it begins to degrade the second it leaves the assembly line. The clear bottles allow ultraviolet light to penetrate into the beverage unimpeded. So it continues to degrade while traveling great distance to market.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my posts start off something like this: &#8220;I was looking at this map and I noticed something odd\u2026&#8221; Right, that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to go today too. In this instance I was geo-tagging a pile of old photographs I\u2019d scanned and loaded into iPhoto. 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