There's a politically incorrect street in Irvine. Officially it's known as Culver Drive. Oldtimers remember it as Culver's Corner, the ranch off the state highway with the big windmill. Phil Brigandi, who wrote "Orange County Place Names A-Z," says that old corner got its name from the Culver brothers.

"Fred had a turned shoulder or some kind of defect, so he's called 'Humpy' Culver, and then his brother who lived down in what was then Irvine, what we call old Irvine today, he got shot during the manhunt for the Tomato Springs Bandit in 1912. So after that, he was always 'Gimpy' Culver."

And the Tomato Springs Bandit? That's another Street Story.

(Airdate: 8/31/2008)