ANSWERS: 21
  • Yes. Rancho Cucamonga is a city in Southern California. It's in the part of the vast LA area known as the Inland Empire, not terribly far from San Bernardino
  • Heard of it. Been there. Know people who live there.
  • Yes, somewhere on an old Zappa record. He had a knack for lesser-known Californian place names.
  • thats wher bugs bunny is trying to get wen he needs to make a left or right in albehqoikee. its either rancho cucamonga or pismo beach . . . lol
  • i've heard of cucamonga, but not the rancho part.
  • Not only have I heard of it, I've BEEN there. I'm wild and crazy like that.
  • I've been there, stayed at a motel back in the 70s. I've been to a horse ranch there to breed a mare.
  • Yeah, someone at my internship asked me to write a press release about a video production the company made there.
  • I've got relatives who live there, and if I remember correctly there is some random park with camping but it also has tarantulas, four kinds of poisonous snakes and mountain lions or bobcats around there. We drove into the place but seeing that sign and the fact it looked pretty run down and there wasn't anybody else there found another place to stay.
  • Heard of it, yes. Been there, no.
  • No I hadn't but there's a horse that runs in England with the same name so I've learnt something today.
  • Sure, isn't Stableboy the mayor of Rancho Cucamonga?
  • I taught school there for a year. Rancho Cucamonga was incorporated in 1977 as a merger of the unincorporated communities of Alta Loma, Cucamonga, and Etiwanda. It has a Minor League baseball team, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, who play their games in a stadium known as the Epicenter. Across the street from that is the Metrolink commuter train station. It has a statue of Jack Benny. On the Jack Benny Program (on the radio), Mel Blanc used to do a running joke, "Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga." The station and the stadium are located on Jack Benny Drive.
  • I have good friends that live there. Didn't quite believe it when they told me the name of their new town.
  • Yup its just a little bit South from here.
  • No, I never heard of it before, although Frank Zappa has been living there. I find the name interesting. Here some information about it: ""Cucamonga" comes from a Tongva place name (perhaps pronounced [kukÉ‘'mʌŋnÉ‘]) that probably means "sandy place", although Vera Rocha, Chief of the Shoshone Gabrielino branch, has stated that the meaning is "Place of the villages where the waters come out". Cuc or Kuc = come, come from or come to. Amo = water, wet, spring and Nanga = place of a village. Either interpretation could easily refer to the same place. The northern part of the city is located in the foothills, where there were a number of artsian wells and creeks. The surface soil is extremely sandy and rocky due to repeated storm runoff from the mountains to the north. An alternate theory, that it means "light over the mountain", is almost certainly a fanciful invention, since the "-nga" (or "-ngna") place name ending is found in many other Tongva-derived place names in the region. In popular media, "Cucamonga" has been recognized as a funny-sounding place name. One of the catch-phrases of the radio show "The Jack Benny Program" involved a train announcer (Mel Blanc) who said over the loudspeaker, "Train now leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cuc... amonga," taking progressively longer pauses between "Cuc" and "amonga." Part of the joke, for the Los Angeles audience, was that no such train route existed, although all three cities (or at the time, towns) do exist. As a tribute to this 'publicity', the city of Rancho Cucamonga built its minor-league baseball stadium on a street they named Jack Benny Way, and erected a bronze statue of the TV host outside of the building's entrance (Coincidentally, Jack Benny Way intersects with Rochester Avenue, which is not named for the character portrayed by Eddie Anderson on "The Jack Benny Program", but was named in 1889 after the hometown of three investors, all of whom were brothers from Rochester, New York). In one of his many popular media crossovers, Blanc used that same catch phrase in Daffy Duck's voice in the 1948 Merrie Melodies cartoon "Daffy Duck Slept Here" and later in Bugs Bunny's voice in a 1960s Looney Tunes cartoon. - Cucamonga in myth and media In the movie Fletch Lives, Fletch, played by actor Chevy Chase, claims to a Ku Klux Klan leader that he is from the "Cucamonga Klan" from California. In the movie Next Friday the setting is, and was partly filmed in, Rancho Cucamonga. An ABC television movie comedy Camp Cucamonga (1990), presumably takes place in a summer camp in Rancho Cucamonga's forested area in the San Bernardino National Forest. The current city limits barely extend into the forested regions of the foothills, and large parts of Cucamonga Peak north of the city lie in a wilderness area. The musical comedy team of Homer and Jethro had a Grammy-winning hit in 1959 with their single "The Battle of Kookamonga", a parody of Johnny Horton's hit "The Battle of New Orleans". A fictional Johnny Carson character named Floyd R. Turbo said he was from Cucamonga, California. "Pride of Cucamonga", a wine produced by the Joseph Filippi Winery in Rancho Cucamonga, was used as the title of a song by the Grateful Dead. The city hosts the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League. Comedian Jamie Kennedy performed a skit for his hidden camera show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment in which he pranked everyone at the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Stadium into singing multiple verses of the national anthem. Hometown to pop punk band Rufio, O-Town boy band member Trevor Penick, as well as American Idol: Season 3 finalist Matthew Rogers. Rancho Cucamonga was in a comedic skit on an episode of MADtv. Musician Frank Zappa built his famous Studio Z recording studio in Cucamonga and made the city his part-time residence for much of the '60s and '70s. ("Cucamonga" is also the name of a long-lived radio show on Radio 1, Belgium, as an obscure reference to Frank Zappa.) Rancho Cucamonga was mentioned in a 2006 Dr Pepper commercial. Pitfall Harry (voiced by Bruce Campbell) claimed to be from Cucamonga, California in Pitfall 3-D: Beyond the Jungle for the PlayStation. Rapper Juelz Santana has a line in his song, I Am Crack from his 2005 album What the Game's Been Missing! that goes: "I'll jam, move and slump ya. Leave 'ya body in Rancho Cucamonga with ants movin' unda." Cucamonga is part of the Jan and Dean song titled, Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review and Timing Association which was released as Liberty 55724 in 1964 and eventually reached #77 on the Billboard Chart. The A-side of the single, Ride the Wild Surf reached Billboard's #16. Both songs were arranged and produced by Jan Berry. In an episode of "The Office," Michael Scott tries to entertain a child during Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Blowing a train whistle, he paraphrases the Jack Benny joke, "next stop Cuc-amonga". In an episode of The Simpsons, Krusty the Clown mentioned Cucamonga, along with Walla Walla, Seattle, and Keokuk as funny place names. In an early Sesame Street sketch, Cookie Monster tries to fool Ernie by claiming that Ernie has a dread disease called "Cucamongaphobia." In the 1995 movie A Kid in King Arthur's Court, King Arthur exiles the villain to Cucamonga at the recommendation of Calvin Fuller. Lou Costello (Abbott and Costello) states that he once played with "the Cucamonga Wildcats" during a 1947 performance of "Who's on First?" It is mentioned in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Actor Redd Foxx made frequent references to Rancho Cucamonga in the television show Sanford and Son. Rancho Cucamonga was mentioned by Sandrine Renard and Roxanne West on an episode of Naked News in February 2007 when a person wrote in from that city." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Cucamonga
  • Yes, I had a very good friend that lived there, until he moved to Idaho.
  • Sure. I helped build a number of homes in that city.
  • Sure have. It is in San Bernadino County.
  • Yes it's a stupid name
  • Yep. I live 15 minutes from there. Its a nice city.

Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC

Answerbag | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy