What is "ventura"

Usage examples of "ventura".

La prima volta fu il giorno dopo l'acquazzone che si era scatenato sulla contea di Ventura, scaricando sul borgo di Palomo Grove più acqua in una sola notte di quanto i suoi abitanti potessero ragionevol­mente aspettarsi in un anno intero.

An hour's panhandling, and Edward could purchase fresh double-A batteries for his Discman, then stroll to the food stands along Ventura Boulevard, where he might choose between a Black Angus hamburger, perhaps, or a came asada burrito, or Vietnamese spring rolls.

Western Malibu, it’s more like Agoura, across the Ventura County line and up into the hills.

And they experience two small earthquakes as they're driving back, one while they're going up Fair Oaks in Pasadena, another fifteen minutes later just as they're about to get on the westbound Ventura Freeway.

Sassine went nervously for his gun but I didn't take any notice because he was as high as a kite and his reactions were notably slow: I could 'have got his gun and shot Zade or Ventura or possibly both as they came back from the flight deck but Kuznetski and Ramirez were behind me now and so was Shadia.

Turning onto Ventura Boulevard, I got spooked by the proximity of the lez bar block.

But that kind of hyperbole seemed appropriate in a palace that was no more than a peeling motor court, a sordid little retreat just off Ventura, in the east end of Studio City, a forgotten finger of the Valley that reaches into the cookie jar called Hollywood.

The route to Oak View was north on the 405, transfer to the 101 toward Ventura, then an exit on Highway 33.

I got off the freeway just short of the Ventura County line and, following the arrow on the sign that said CANYON OAKS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, swung south over a concrete bridge.

The Silver Lake house is located in an opportune spot, practically in the shadow of the Golden State Freeway: it is an easy matter for its inhabitants, when summoned, to take that freeway to one interchange or another and zoom out via the Ventura Freeway to the top end of the Zone or the San Bernardino Freeway to the southern end, whereas anybody coming from the Mar Vista house or the one in West Hollywood or the Gardena place would have a much more extensive journey to make.

Michael had read about a European-style area of the Ventura beach where yellow umbrellas had been set up near a small espresso and sandwich bar, allowing spur of the moment beach-going and instant picnics.

Call the Ventura office later and find out where the FBI folks are posted in Santa Barbara.

Last night in the quiet residential town of Palomo Grove, Ventura County, a community set in the secure hills of the Simi Valley, our reality, known to those who juggle such concepts as the Cosm, was torn open by a power that proved to this reporter that all life is a movie—.

Might not mean anything but two sleazes on a Harley Hog just turned east on Ventura.

Pal of mine at the Ventura courthouse said he logged twenty-one hundred sixty-six beans of the ransom money into the evidence locker.