[Leica] Our Fair City - Palo Alto

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

Great to see those pictures. Never noticed the bookstore; is it on 
University Ave.?

Is the Larry Page house on Bryant approaching Washington from the 
north? If so, it's just up the block from me; I'm on Washington near 
Emerson. I've been wondering whose mansion that is.

Tried several times to photograph that City Hall bottle art, but 
wasn't satisfied enough with the shots to post them on the LUG. Also, 
take a dim view of that "art".

Herb



>(Drat, something wrong with my new domain www.richardmanphoto.com so this
>will be an inline post!)
>
>I needed to test out some film processing procedures, so I took the bike out
>and rode out with the XPan. Nothing special here, but may be give you a
>sense of life in our fair city.
>
>The unemployment rate in California is well over 12%, but you wouldn't know
>it in Palo Alto. This new house is designed by an architect, being built on
>a "large" (quarter acre?) lot. Most houses that come to the market are sold
>within a few short weeks. Facebook/Google effect.
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-1.jpg
>
>The following non-descript photos of a blocked off temporary fence is the
>new home of Larry Page. We rode by it over the Summer and we were aghast at
>how big the property is. It's about half a city block long! We didn't know
>it's Larry Page's house of course, but we did figure that it must be some
>rich CEO or something.
>
>Then the day afterward, the local newspaper said his new neighbors
>complained that the construction was pumping out a lot of ground water with
>an accompanying photo.
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-2.jpg
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-3.jpg
>
>A basker and someone taking a nap:
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-4.jpg
>
>Border declared bankruptcy and closed all stores. The Palo Alto location was
>in an old theater that probably dated from early 1900s. The restaurant next
>to it, Hans Bistro, has my images on their wall since 2009.
>
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-5.jpg
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-6.jpg
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-7.jpg
>
>The other old theater, is still functional! Thanks to David Packard (the son
>of the HP founder).
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-8.jpg
>
>And we even have a local bookstore! Apparently since 1932
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-9.jpg
>
>As you may have seen from Herb's photos, our city likes to spend money on...
>arts. There is now an art building made with glass bottles of different
>sizes right in front of the City Hall:
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-10.jpg
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-11.jpg
>
>The local fire department must also be doing some sort of employee
>appreciation day or something:
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-12.jpg
>http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-13.jpg
>
>With that, my roll of film was finished, and time to go home.
>--
>// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
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Herbert Kanner
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