I heard a story about Alameda de las Pulgas getting its name once. But I don't have a good source for it.
According to the story, there were two roads at the time: El Camino Real, and Alameda de las Pulgas. El Camino Real was for the Spanish missionaries. Alameda de las Pulgas was for the Indians (Ohlone and Miwok, I guess). "Pulgas" was an intentionally ugly term: it was a racial slur.
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Date: 2002-08-09 07:21 pm (UTC)According to the story, there were two roads at the time: El Camino Real, and Alameda de las Pulgas. El Camino Real was for the Spanish missionaries. Alameda de las Pulgas was for the Indians (Ohlone and Miwok, I guess). "Pulgas" was an intentionally ugly term: it was a racial slur.