Mile 6108 – San Francisco. To San Francisco from Redding, in the North Central Valley of California, via wine country and Santa Rosa. As we approached the Golden Gate, the temperature dropped from around 90 to 55 on the bridge, in dense fog. In the city, it is sunny, with comfortable, clean, clear air after our spending most of the day traveling in heat and smoke. I love this place. Before going over the bridge, we stopped at the Golden Gate overlook in Marin County. We were just above the fog there. The fog swirled around below us, playing games with the tops of the bridge, accompanied by a fog horn concert. Very impressive, but hard to convey. In my opinion, the bridge is the most— or maybe only— scenic, man-made structure in America.
Earlier in the day, we went to Santa Rosa, tracking down another 1930s postcard, of the county court house. To make a long story short, we could not find the building. After googling it on the net, we found that it was demolished in the sixties because it was considered “seismically unsafe”. There was a commerative plaque, and P.J. took a picture of it as well as the park that replaced it.
Vintage Postcard Project: September 2: Santa Rosa, California
[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]