Monthly Archives: April, 2010
It’s “WIL-da-sin”, not “Wild-As-Sin!”
Sometime in the mid-1950s, a local wag noticed the “Wildasin” station on the Santa Fe Harbor Subdivision rail line, near Slauson and Normandie Avenues. He conjectured that the name was derived from “Wild As Sin, ” and imagined that at one time it might have been a neighborhood of ill repute, where people went to […]
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