The Top 40: Drove to SFO yesterday

July 21, 2014

“YOUR NAME HERE” on virtually every roadside glass office building from Folsom through Sacramento.
graffiti attests that Sac is becoming “vibrant” and diverse; it was a picture-perfect small city only 10 years back; new reports there are black gangs and hispanic gangs now
outside Sac a large billboard soliciting “Christian acting talent”
in the Central Valley everything changes: hand-painted fruit stand signs
an hour from the Bay, traffic becomes bumper-to-bumper; 75 mph is now the unofficial bare minimum speed (when you’re not crawling or stalled)
for first time no “Free Leonard Peltier” sign on Berkeley pedestrian bridge
finally bought Fastrak transponder, to zip through tolls; never, ever seen a native-born American manning a toll booth; the Fastrak worked for airport parking, too
the old Bay Bridge is being dismantled, just yards away from the new
at SFO, the international terminal was entirely Chinese
humongous San Francisco billboards, all incomprehensibly geeky
except for one… image

and I thought for miles as I drove about the vacant souls it was engineered to appeal to

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 21, 2014 10:39 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

Wow - had no idea the old Bay Bridge had been replaced. Spent a lot of hours on that thing some decades back.

Very cool time-lapse of the construction:

Posted by: AGoyAndHisBlog at July 21, 2014 10:59 AM