It's the street that gives rookie traffic reporters fits: Cahuenga. "Originally it was Cabuegna, and that was the name of the Indian village," says Greg Williams, author of "The Story of Hollywood."

"The Indian village Cabuegna was actually where Universal City is – the studios – and the Franciscan fathers who trooped through the Cahuenga Pass, they wouldn't pronounce the Indian's names, the village names. So they came up with 'Cahuenga.' That was their kind of bastardization of Cabuegna."

So the next time you get stuck in traffic on the 101, you can amuse your fellow passengers by pointing out you're actually driving through the "Cabuegna Pass."

(Airdate for this story: 8/26/07)