Comments | whitetail: San Francisco: In my lifetime

whitetail

San Francisco: In my lifetime

Mar 04, 2012 16:59

When I took bob_bunny on a day-trip to San Francisco in January, we got stuck in traffic for a while, and just offhand, I pointed to all the tall buildings that loom over downtown today and remarked, "See all those skyscrapers? Every single one of them was built in my own lifetime ( Read more... )

then & now, nostalgia, buildings, history

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avon_deer March 5 2012, 19:52:52 UTC

I love that place. It's expensive though.

avon_deer March 5 2012, 19:53:08 UTC

Perhaps not quite as bad as London though.

sabotlours March 6 2012, 15:55:35 UTC

Back in grad school I had to show the movie "The City That Waits to Die" when we covered earthquakes in GEO101. I think I saw that movie about 12 times during my TA days. It was so horribly outdated but the message was still valid. I'm wondering how all of those skyscrapers will fare in an 8.0. I'm hoping the engineers did their homework, but Im sure the engineers in Kobe thought the same thing.

Now I have an urge to watch "Bullit."

jumpyfox September 22 2012, 00:14:03 UTC

I was born in the bay area. There was a freeway along the shoreline when I was a young kid. It was called the Embarcadero Freeway. It had the designation of Interstate 480, just like a freeway in Cleveland, Ohio. That old freeway in San Francisco was a double decked highway that ran above that street that follows the shoreline. The street and the ferry terminal were totally eclipsed by that big freeway ( ... )