The Golden Gate — The Bridge That Nearly Killed Me
Today’s the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, which reminded me how I nearly died twice covering the celebration of the 50th birthday.
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The Neglected Industrial Past
I found this website — http://www.forgottendetroit.com — which contains four photographers’ images of the ruined factory buildings in that hard luck city. I wonder why the pictures make me so emotional. I think it is because they speak to the grandeur of our aspirations of that time, the kind of thing you see in a … The Neglected Industrial Past
Along the Waterfront
When I was growing up in San Francisco, the part of Third Street near where I now live was the city’s industrial zone with steel foundries, ship dry docks and shipyards and the massive complex that contained American Can. That is all in the past now, with just the hulks of the buildings remaining. I … Along the Waterfront