Allyson's Bubble

What's in the mind of Allyson today?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
So maybe you knew this.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I did not Coachella, which we know Coachella.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I thought was just the concert. But Coachella is the town.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Oh I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well I didn't either.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Coachella was not a word that was ever supposed to
be used. The town in California was founded over a
century ago. It was supposed to be called Conchilla, the
Spanish word for small white snail shells found in the
valley sand soil, conchilla, but the original in the original
material materials, the printer misspelled Conchilla as Coachella. And because

(00:39):
everyone's really cheap and why pay to fix that, uh,
they just read. Instead of redoing everything, they just went
with the misspelled name. So no Conchilla based on the
actual snail shells that are there.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's Coachella now because.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
It is the town called Conchella or the Coachell.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It sounds like this is a town thing.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Okay, it sounds like it's a town thing because it says, yeah,
they don't mention the concert at all.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Interesting, So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Maybe the town took their name back and they referred
to it as that, but that would.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Make me go dig up the more information. Now, I'm
fascinated by that for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah,