What) The Musical
Road in Lancaster is on Ave G and 30th Street. Once you get
there you have to drive in the fast lane at 55 MPH, turn down
your radio and, as your tires drive over the grooves in the
street, a part of Rossini's "The William Tell Overture" is
played. It's pretty cool! Apparently, they had initially built
it for a Honda commercial on Ave K. The residents complained
that the noise was too much and kept them awake, so they
smoothed over that road and moved it to Ave G near Fox
Airport. I always make it a point to drive that road when I'm
in Lancaster. (1)
Why) This one developed into quite a
search. Lancaster, California appears to have been laid
out by a city planner who expected the city to accommodate
millions of people instead of the 145,000 that they currently
have. The named streets start miles away from the city
center and many of them are double lane width and nearly
deserted. It made for an eerie start. Anyway, I
knew that the Musical Road was on either Avenue G or 30th
Street close to their intersection. As it turns out,
there are 4 locations in Lancaster where an Avenue G
intersects a 30th Street so we had to drive up and down every
one of them before finding the musical road on our eighth and
last try.