[Leica] IMG: This fountain was no improvement

[Herbert Kanner]

A year or so ago, I posted a photo essay on California Avenue, a secondary business district that is about a mile south of downtown Palo Alto.

The city fathers, in their wisdom, have spent a couple of years revamping this street. They imbedded glass chips in the sidewalks to give a festive effect, and until some of it was redone, had some dangerous bits of sharpness protruding. They loused up parking in the area for two years. And, curses, they replaced a lovely spouting fountain, possibly because it was a lure to pranksters who liked to pour blue dye into it.

The replacement is hyped as a unique sculpture, in that it “works” whether or not water is flowing. I no like!

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000258.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000258.jpg.html>

Please look “large”.

Herb



Herbert Kanner
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