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Subject: [Leica] IMG: This fountain was no improvement
From: nwajsman at gmail.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 18:41:39 +0200
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Not having seen what preceded it, I find it hard to judge. I find it 
reasonably attractive.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 24 Jul 2015, at 02:34, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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