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How To Build a Proper Bridge

Original post made by R.GORDON, another community, on Jul 9, 2010

While the SILICON VALLEY and BAY AREA struggle with bridges and tunnels along the coast, you can see how hard hit nations are at work creating marvels in architecture which connect COUNTRIES and with designs which defy beauty and description yet they suffer no less than we do in this world wide recession. Perhaps it is time we began thinking like the rest of the world and stopped fighting amongst ourselves over issues that are seemingly trite.

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The last architectural achievement which comes to mind in a 50 mile radius is the Trans America building.
Do any of you readers travel?
I do know that a great many of you are interested in preserving old, and not very important architectual homes.

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Posted by AMAZED
a resident of another community
on Jul 10, 2010 at 8:40 am

That is amazing!
Do people have a hardon against you? You have the best and most contemporary view and articles.
New money is going to lose their homes.
check this one out.
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A THING OF BEAUTY.!!
I am going to buy the land when it is dirt cheap and build windmills with the IPO's of the future. Screw your public.

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Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jul 10, 2010 at 9:01 am

One man's thing of beauty is another man's eyesore and scar upon the land.

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Posted by AMAZED
a resident of another community
on Jul 10, 2010 at 11:47 am

You are obviously stuck in a rut......try this one on:

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and see how the world is able to build vast networks of travel and with speed while we ponder on the Bay Bridge and the tunnel on the coast which may both be finished while this entire project took less time and left beautiful towns and villages intact.
You can stick with your historic preservations, and your teensy little area which has to make way for the future and not be stuck with mansions and the sequestered politicos who think they have the pulse on world when their's is strictly the stock market and more money.
The last new building in a fifty mile radius which came to mind thanks to one person, was the Trans America Building in San Francisco..
We sold our "country place" in Hillsborough when all the real "Bay Area" old families got away from the influx of the "nouveau".
You definitely have a sense of tired beauty.

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Posted by R. Gordon
a resident of another community
on Jul 10, 2010 at 12:07 pm

No offense to Menlo Park, but in the 50's (not that long ago ) Menlo Park among San Franciscans was almost unknown except for it Junior College, where kids who did not make grades for Stanford were sent.
For the real San Franciscans, we took private trains to the Napa Valley if we went "out of town". The ONLY reason to go South was to homes in Hillsborough which were built by a lot of colorful Italian multimillionaires and attorneys who were always rumored to be affiliated with crime and illegal activities...
Never proven, but the homes were lavish and marble was everywhere.

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Posted by OpenMind
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2010 at 7:10 am

And people on the Peninsula are preoccupied with planting trees.....

(to line the HSR's path)

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