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'''Waimea'''<br />
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99; famed surfing location on Oahu's North Shore
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'''Wabash Cannonball'''<br />
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227; is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Cannonball]. The song is part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll [http://www.rockhall.com/exhibithighlights/500-songs-by-name-wz/].
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'''Wadi Nisnas'''<br />
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248 - an Arab neighborhood in the city of Haifa in northern Israel. Nisnas is the Arabic word for mongoose, an indigenous animal. The wadi has a population of about 8,000 inhabitants. It is the setting for the 1987 novel, ''Hatsotsrah ba-Vadi'' (Hebrew: "Trumpet in the Wadi") by Sami Michael. It centers around the love story between a young Israeli Arab woman and a new immigrant from Russia.
  
'''Wallach's Music City'''<br />
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'''Walken, Christopher'''<br />
176; record store with "audition booths"; Wallach's was located on the northwest corner of Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles and had listening booths where you could go in a listen to records. It was opened by Glenn Wallichs (1910-1971) in 1940 and closed in 1978. In its time, it was the biggest record store in Los Angeles.
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94, ''The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story;
  
'''Walnut Creek'''<br />
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'''Wall of Silence'''<br />
188; "isn't a chakra"; Walnut Creek is a small San Francisco Bay Area city in Contra Costa County east of Oakland.
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84, in Flatiron District
  
'''Warbling, Riggs'''<br />
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'''Webber, Andrew Lloyd'''<br />
61; Sloane's "spiritual coach"; in desert, 143; 144; at Arrepentimiento, 250
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124 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) is a British composer and impresario of light-weight musical theatre hits such as ''Cats'' (1980), ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' (1971) and ''Phantom of the Opera'' (1986) and ''Evita'' (1978).
  
'''Warriors Against the Man Black Armed Militia (WAMBAM)'''<br />
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'''Weiner, Joel'''<br />
292; Tariq Khalil's people on the outside (of prison)
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16 – "real-estate obsessive" and on the AMBOPEDIA cruise;
  
'''Waste-a-Perp Target Range'''<br />
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[[File:welcome-to-the-johnsons.jpg|thumb|Welcome to the Johnson's toilet|left|175px]]'''Welcome to the Johnsons'''<br />
269; a civilian range "down off South La Brea" where Bigfoot practices in the UGH (Urban, Gang-related and Hippie) section
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236 - Bar in the Lower East Side, famous for its grafitti-splattered toilets, [http://nyctoilets.tumblr.com/page/9/ featured] on the "Toilets of New York" website.
  
'''Watusi-ing'''<br />
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'''Well people'''<br />
The Watusi is a solo dance that enjoyed brief popularity during the early 1960s, almost as popular as the Twist. Its name came from the Batutsi tribe of Rwanda. It was popularized by the Orlons' hit single "The Wah Watusi" (1962); Penny Kimball, 6
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73 - The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation. As of June 2012, it had 2,693 members. It is best known for its Internet forums, but also provides email, shell accounts, and web pages. The discussion and topics on the WELL range from deeply serious to trivial, depending on the nature and interests of the participants. [http://www.well.com/ Well Website]
  
'''Watts clambake'''<br />
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'''Wells notice'''<br />
195; a large-scale race riot which lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in August 1965, where 34 people were killed; 201;
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63 The current Wells Fargo is a result of a 1998 merger between Minneapolis-based Norwest Corporation and the original Wells Fargo. Although Norwest was the nominal survivor, the new company kept the Wells Fargo name to capitalize on the long history of the nationally recognized Wells Fargo name and its trademark stagecoach (the company's previous slogan, "The Next Stage," is likely a nod to the company's trademark). After the acquisition, the parent company kept its headquarters in San Francisco. The company's current tagline, "Together we'll go far" also references the stagecoach motif, its customers, and represents the company name itself in a transposed way (Wells Far-go = we'll[s] go-Far).
  
'''Wavos'''<br />
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<div id="westchester willy"></div>'''Westchester Willy'''<br />
12; 98; restaurant in Gordita Beach, Los Angeles. As mentioned in the page 12 annotations, the name is an anglicization of the Spanish ''huevos''. Maybe also a surf culture nickname for waves? Anyone concur?
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177, nom de porn of [[E#epperdew|Vip Epperdew]]; on the run in Utah, marrying video co-stars [[S#shae|Shae]] and [[B#bruno|Bruno]], 277
Don't know if it's actually slang, but it's a pretty good joke from Pynchon: huevos-wavos-surfer restaurant.
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'''Wayne, John (1907-1979)'''<br />
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'''Westheimer, Dr. Ruth'''<br />
American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. He was also known for his conservative political views and his support in the 1950s for anti-communist positions; 334
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171 - Author of sex self-help books
  
'''"We Should Be Together"'''<br />
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'''Wilson, Owen'''<br />
From the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'', performed as a song and dance by Shirley Temple and George Murphy; 360; Sample lyric:
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94, as Jack Nicklaus;
  
:You're a cup of coffee'''<br />
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'''Windust, Dotty'''<br/>
:You're a peachy pie'''<br />
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Nick's wife 442
:We should be together, you and I
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'''Wee Kirk O' the Heather'''<br />
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'''Windust, Nicholas'''<br />
246; where Puck and Trillium get married, in Las Vegas; a real Wedding Chapel, it is touted as "the original Las Vegas Wedding Chapel" and has been in operation since 1940
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99, Special Case Officer; 102; neo-liberal terrorist, 108; TANGO, 108; in Maxine's volcano dream, 168; 238; abducted by earth-born aliens, 243; "he tortures people with electric cattle prods" 245; "date" with Maxine, 251; wife Dotty, 260; "some kind of Friedmanite hit man" 352; "the likely murderer of Lester Traipse" 353; murdered and left to the dogs, 409-411;
  
'''Welk, Lawrence (1903-1992)'''<br />
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'''Winnie list'''<br />
257; a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' from 1955 to 1982, his "champagne music" is considered wholesome, bland and mediocre; 260
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'''"White Rabbit"'''<br />
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'''Winterslow, Bruce'''<br />
156; 1967 acid-inspired hit for the Jefferson Airplane, on their ''Surrealistic Pillow'' LP
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3, principal at OKS
  
'''Wild Man Fischer (b.1944)'''<br />
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'''Wood, Natalie'''<br />
155; Larry "Wild Man" Fischer was institutionalized at age 16 for attacking his mother with a knife, as was diagnosed with severe paranoid schizophrenia. After his release from a mental hospital, he wandered Los Angeles singing a unique brand of songs all his own. He was discovered by Frank Zappa who directed the recording of his first album, "An Evening with Wild Man Fischer" (1968).
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27, aka Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, in ''West Side Story'' (1961)
  
'''"Wipe Out"'''<br />
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101; Famous surf music song by the Surfaris. The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The song has a surprisingly tangled history worth reading about: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_%28song%29 Wikipedia]
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'''''Wizard of Oz, The'' (1939)'''<br />
 
MGM-producted American musical-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The film stars Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and Frank Morgan. All of the sequences were filmed in three-strip Technicolor. The opening and closing credits, as well as the Kansas sequences, were both filmed in black and white and colored in a sepia tone. Sometimes color and sepia would be juxtaposed in the film within seconds of each other. The most dramatic switch occurs when Dorothy Gale lands in Oz; 286
 
  
'''Wolfmann, Michael Zachary ("Mickey")'''<br />
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'''Woodbury Common or Paramus'''<br />
4; LA developer Shasta is seeing; sightings, 76; decides to give money away, 150; calls Tito Stavrou to pick him up at Chryskylodon, 184; Mob connections? 221; "the Mickey book" at the Kismet, 237; "putting up a whole city from scratch someday, out in the desert" 240; with Puck and Einar at the Kismet, 243; his change of heart, 252; '''M.Z.W.''' initials appear the same right-side-up & upside-down.<br />
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See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]
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'''Wolfmann, Sloane'''<br />
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'''World Trade Center<br />
55; Mickey's wife
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94, where Horst sublet some office space; 165; foreshadowing of 911, via proösmic, 236-237; Elaine & Brooke shopping there, 246; 292;
  
'''Wolfsburg'''<br />
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'''''Written on the Wind''''' (1956)<br />
193; Volkswagen Corporate Headquarters are located in Wolfsburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany
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212
  
'''Womack, Droolin' Floyd'''<br />
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'''WYUP'''<br />
51; fictional blues singer whose song "The Repossess Man" Doc hears on KQAS (kickass?) radio while driving
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198 fictional radio station in NYC;
 
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'''Wood, Evelyn'''<br />
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211; creator of speedreading courses
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'''Worthington, Cal'''<br />
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'''Wright, Rick (1943-2008)'''<br />
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129; keyboard player in Pink Floyd
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Wadi Nisnas
248 - an Arab neighborhood in the city of Haifa in northern Israel. Nisnas is the Arabic word for mongoose, an indigenous animal. The wadi has a population of about 8,000 inhabitants. It is the setting for the 1987 novel, Hatsotsrah ba-Vadi (Hebrew: "Trumpet in the Wadi") by Sami Michael. It centers around the love story between a young Israeli Arab woman and a new immigrant from Russia.

Walken, Christopher
94, The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story;

Wall of Silence
84, in Flatiron District

Webber, Andrew Lloyd
124 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) is a British composer and impresario of light-weight musical theatre hits such as Cats (1980), Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) and Phantom of the Opera (1986) and Evita (1978).

Weiner, Joel
16 – "real-estate obsessive" and on the AMBOPEDIA cruise;

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Welcome to the Johnsons

236 - Bar in the Lower East Side, famous for its grafitti-splattered toilets, featured on the "Toilets of New York" website.

Well people
73 - The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation. As of June 2012, it had 2,693 members. It is best known for its Internet forums, but also provides email, shell accounts, and web pages. The discussion and topics on the WELL range from deeply serious to trivial, depending on the nature and interests of the participants. Well Website

Wells notice
63 The current Wells Fargo is a result of a 1998 merger between Minneapolis-based Norwest Corporation and the original Wells Fargo. Although Norwest was the nominal survivor, the new company kept the Wells Fargo name to capitalize on the long history of the nationally recognized Wells Fargo name and its trademark stagecoach (the company's previous slogan, "The Next Stage," is likely a nod to the company's trademark). After the acquisition, the parent company kept its headquarters in San Francisco. The company's current tagline, "Together we'll go far" also references the stagecoach motif, its customers, and represents the company name itself in a transposed way (Wells Far-go = we'll[s] go-Far).

Westchester Willy

177, nom de porn of Vip Epperdew; on the run in Utah, marrying video co-stars Shae and Bruno, 277

Westheimer, Dr. Ruth
171 - Author of sex self-help books

Wilson, Owen
94, as Jack Nicklaus;

Windust, Dotty
Nick's wife 442

Windust, Nicholas
99, Special Case Officer; 102; neo-liberal terrorist, 108; TANGO, 108; in Maxine's volcano dream, 168; 238; abducted by earth-born aliens, 243; "he tortures people with electric cattle prods" 245; "date" with Maxine, 251; wife Dotty, 260; "some kind of Friedmanite hit man" 352; "the likely murderer of Lester Traipse" 353; murdered and left to the dogs, 409-411;

Winnie list
45

Winterslow, Bruce
3, principal at OKS

Wood, Natalie
27, aka Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, in West Side Story (1961)


Woodbury Common or Paramus
196

World Trade Center
94, where Horst sublet some office space; 165; foreshadowing of 911, via proösmic, 236-237; Elaine & Brooke shopping there, 246; 292;

Written on the Wind (1956)
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WYUP
198 fictional radio station in NYC;

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