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Rancho Cucamonga is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United
States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 127,743. By
July 1, 2002 Census the fast-growing city's population had reached 143,711. By
early 2006, the city's estimated population had reached over 170,000 people[6].
Dr. Donald J. Kurth was elected as mayor on November 7, 2006. Jack Lam is the
city manager. The city was incorporated in 1977, as a result of a merger among
the unincorporated communities of Alta Loma, Cucamonga, and Etiwanda.
Rancho Cucamonga is served by Omnitrans Bus Service, Metrolink Train Service,
and nearby Ontario International Airport. Interstate 15 and the relatively new
210 freeway extension run through Rancho Cucamonga as well as the historic Route
66.
Rancho Cucamonga has multiple K-12 schools districts within its borders. Alta
Loma School District, Central School District, Cucamonga School District,
Etiwanda School District, and Chaffey Joint Union High School District. In
addition to these schools, Rancho Cucamonga is the home to Chaffey College and
satellite campus of the University of La Verne, University of Redlands, Everest
College, and University of Phoenix, as well as the automotive trade school,
Universal Technical Institute.
"Cucamonga" comes from a Tongva place name (perhaps pronounced [kukɑ'mʌŋnɑ])
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.[citation needed] 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.
"Cucamonga" has always been recognized as a funny-sounding place name, among
such exotic places as Timbuktu and Bora Bora. 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. As a tribute to this 'publicity', the city of Rancho Cucamonga built
its minor-league baseball stadium on 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.