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Summer in the City
The price we pay for almost five months without rain is dust. Yesterday I hosed off the front of the building. A couple days ago I did the same to the back. Just now I noticed all the dust on my windowsill and considered taking action, before realizing that this will be taken care of with the first rain of autumn.Remember when I was talking about the Saleforce Tower going up next to the Transbay Transit Center? (Soon to be the tallest building in San Francisco.) Here's the view from the intersection just below me, it's the building under construction next to the crane at right center of the photo,
I still don't have a good sense of how tall it will be when completed, but I think we will have a good view from here. (The trees are on top of the massive Sutter-Stockton parking garage.) The building on the left has residential at the top, one of the first to do that in the Financial District. The shorter building -- with bay windows -- in the center used to be occupied by Charles Schwab but they've moved elsewhere, and the taller building behind it houses Citi Bank.The taller building on the right used to belong to Wells Fargo.
Forty years ago I sold poems and short stories to commuters on the sidewalk just below that Wells Fargo tower (there is a BART entrance near the corner). Now it is directly across the street from my gym. When it was built it was the tallest building in SF (I believe). That was a time when Wells Fargo, Crocker Bank, and Bank of America were willing to jump through civic hoops to get an advantage on their local competition. Since then Fargo acquired Crocker and BofA moved to North Carolina.
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