X-Nico

unusual facts about Oxnard


Verne Carlson

Carlson moved to Oxnard, California with his partner and died of heart failure on February 5, 2003.


California State Route 1

For the 1932 Summer Olympics, the segment of the Highway 1 between Oxnard and Santa Monica (then known as the Theodore Roosevelt Highway) hosted part of the road cycling events.

Cincinnati Red

The IWF would go on to run shows within and throughout Ventura County, including Simi Valley, Oxnard, and Port Hueneme.

Colonia, Oxnard, California

The north to south boundaries are Camino del Sol to 3rd Street and the west to east boundaries are Oxnard Boulevard (Highway 1) to Rose Avenue.

E-tran

e-tran currently operates older Gold Coast Transit (formerly South Coast Area Transit) CNG buses from Oxnard, CA, and Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority CNG buses from Akron, Ohio painted with the e-tran paint scheme.

KTAS

Channel 33 first signed on in January 1990 as KADE, owned by the owners of KADY in Oxnard, California (now KBEH), rebroadcasting its sister station in Oxnard with the exception of nightly Fox network programming.

Madlib Medicine Show

The majority of the album is instrumental, but a few selections feature him rapping together with his Oxnard crew C.D.P., which also included his brother Oh No.

Nardcore

Oxnard locals Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (who drew album covers for Dr. Know and other Nardcore bands) and Mario Hernandez went on to create the long-running comic book series Love and Rockets.

Oxnard Air Force Base

The 354th FIS remained at Oxnard until 1955 when it was reassigned to McGhee Tyson Airport/McGhee Tyson AFB, near Knoxville, Tennessee to provide air defense for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

During the thirties Howard Hughes erected a tent on the airport to shelter his H-1 racer, which he tested from the Oxnard Airport.

Oxnard Airport

In 1968 Pacific merged into Air West which became Hughes Airwest; it continued at Oxnard with F-27s until replaced by Golden West Airlines and other commuter airlines in 1973-74.

Silver Strand

Silver Strand Beach, a beach neighborhood in the city of Oxnard, California

Wagon Wheel, Oxnard, California

On March 2, 2009 the San Buenaventura Conservancy, a local non-profit preservation advocacy group – with attorney Susan Brandt-Hawley – filed suit in Ventura County Superior Court against the City of Oxnard, claiming that the City’s approval of the Oxnard Village Specific Plan project violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).


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