Stateside with Rosalea - Photo Supplement
Scoop’s San Francisco correspondent Rosalea Barker sent these pictures from her town. The images supplement yesterday’s column: Stateside With Rosalea: Time For A Sesqui.
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Waiting for its new friends to come, one of four giant cranes already at the Port of Oakland, having cleared the Bay Bridge by a couple of feet back in 2000. Four more of these huge cranes, built in China, will arrive in May.
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Two postmodern R2D2s, eager to board the Muni light rail on San Francisco's embarcadero, are dwarfed by the double-decker Bay Bridge slung above them. When travelling on the lower deck in the fog, you feel like you're in a Star Wars movie set.
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On Oakland's Broadway, near the 1912 Flatiron Building at 14th Street, is DeLauer's news stand. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it sells newspapers and magazines from all around the world.
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Reflected in the modern buildings of Oakland's downtown area is the distorted image of the Tribune Tower on 13th Street, home of Oakland's own Home Town Paper.