Tea Parlors in Chinatown Stocked With An Astounding Variety Of Exquisite Tea Somehow Remind Us Of Another Botanical That Once Was In Vogue Here Posted by DGoza 0 Opium’s long gone; legal plants now line these walls — just as addicting.
Not a Banjo From Alabama On His Knee, But Maybe Its Cousin From China Twangs “Oh! Susannah” Posted by DGoza 0 He leaps between scales from East and West, like bridging strands of DNA.
Next to the Transamerica Pyramid, the Tallest Building in San Francisco So Far, is a Miniature Redwood Forest, Obscured in the Shadow of Skyscrapers Posted by DGoza 0 Buildings win battles for highest growth. Trees outshine in clever design.
This Cafe/ Ballroom in Berkeley Was the Hot Spot for Folk Dancing in the Seventies, When Folk Dancing Was a Big Craze, and Still Hosts Folk Dancing Among Many Other Things, Bringing to Mind the Once-Heard Quip That the Average Age of a Folk Dancer Increases By One Year Every Year Posted by DGoza 0 Gray Folk once danced them. Green Folk copied them for years. Gray Folk dance again.
The Way Bridge Tolls Seem to Have Increased Every Time You Cross Them Has Prompted More Than Enough Comments About How They’re Trying to Sell You a Bridge, But Holy Cow Posted by DGoza 0 No, they’re not selling They’re testing how bad you want to make your passage.
A Flight In a Wind Tunnel That Simulates Parachuting, But Without Whatever Degree of Risk the Latter Has Posted by DGoza 0 Upward technology exists so we can soar, while still staying near ground.
The Oracle Coliseum, Formerly the Overstock.com Coliseum, Formerly the McAfee Coliseum, Formerly the Network Associates Coliseum, Might Be Known Some Day in the Distant Future as Ozymandias Coliseum Posted by DGoza 0 Ancient conquerors built on the conquered’s ruins. Now they just change signs.
Remembering Rosie the Riveter in Richmond Posted by DGoza 0 Perfumes and heels don’t make ladies. These gals bloomed, though life wasn’t rosy.
Some Prisons in California Have Been Built in Environs More Beautiful Than Even the Choicest Real Estate Elsewhere Posted by DGoza 0 Ultimate torture: bars frame beachfront property, a view to kill for.
The Widow of a Famed Rifle Maker, She Was Haunted By the Ghosts of Those Killed By Her Husband’s Product, Who Told Her She’d Die If Construction On Her House Ever Ceased; Thus This Fascinating Architectural Oddity Posted by DGoza 0 Whether we build on or stop, we still die, Sarah. But “A” for effort.