if it is flat, it was probably once part of the Bay

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San Francisco isn't all that old that we can't sometimes figure out where nature stopped, and modern "progress" took over.



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Columbus Avenue is a bit askew to the other streets it intersects, but I like to follow its gentle slope to the shore, where the imposing Transamerica Pyramid now sits.

During excavation for the Pyramid's massive foundation, wooden ships were unearthed from the muck of the original shoreline of San Francisco Bay.



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This is the old Transamerica Building built in 1909. It is now a church of Scientology. The new pyramid shaped Transamerica Building across the intersection to the south was built in 1972.



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Soooooooooooo, today you have seen TWO of my obsessions--
(first photo) Wedding dresses from outside the shop window,
and (photo above) condiment caddies in empty restaurants.


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