Pinon Mesa name

[Wrightwood]

[justme]

http://www.city-data.com/
No Pinion Mesa there!

[Wrightwood]

No Wrightwood either.
They aren't cities 

http://www.city-data.com/
No Pinion Mesa there!

[Wrightwood]

Here's Wrightwood as a town/village:

http://www.city-data.com/city/California2.html

[ChrisLynnet]

I live here and I probably spell it wrong! "Pinion Mesa" every time. It's probably correct on the sign, "Pinon Mesa." I'm an excellent speller too, I just have Pinion on the brain.

[justme]

I knew that 

[Wayno]

In Spanish, the "n" with the tilda "~" over it designates an "ny" sound.  So the other spellings are Anglicized gringo versions of the original Mexican word.

[Nolena]

That works for me.
But, is the Spanish also corrupted from the native American?

[ChrisLynnet]

I confuse it with the spelling as in "a bird's pinion."

From now on, I vow to remember how to spell the darned thing correctly.

[ChattyCathy]

So what is Pinon Mesa?  I pass the sign all the time and can't tell what it represents. 

[ChrisLynnet]

It's the neighborhood on top of the flat-topped hill (a mesa) that you pass as you head out of town on Lone Pine Canyon. It's comprised of two streets, Summit and Easter.

If you're coming up Highway 2 towards Wrightwood and look to the left before you reach Sheep Creek, you can see the entire hill from there and the houses peeking out from the trees.

[Wildman]

It was an early attempt at real estate marketing which gave exclusivity to the buyer through a place name.  Kinda like Pacific Crest Estates.  "We live over in PC".

[Wrightwood]

[goatgirl]

I just can't get what you guys call mesa's out here.  Pinon Mesa, Baldy Mesa, the mesa in Hesperia.  Don't the people out here know what a real mesa is?  The ones they have in... uh oh, is it Arizona or New Mexico?

[Wrightwood]