Claremont Hotel Berkeley

Hey! Look at this:

The brown building with the hip roof used to be a firehouse! And now, those of us familiar with Berkeley and the Claremont Hotel understand why the streets are so crazy in this section of town.

(As always, click to enlarge.)

Nostalgia

DW#1 is busy unearthing memories from our archives.

Some hidden treasures have been noticed.

One from early days at St. Albans School for Boys, about 1950:

That's me, half hidden behind the left shoulder of the gent in the blue blazer. And yes, coats and ties were required.

Then we move to Waikiki's Nick's Fishmarket and an historic evening sometime about 1972:

This delightful scene of design and construction fellows was the first time one of my expense-account meals totaled over $100 and I remember it well. My accounting department accepted the expense, and the meal was good!

San Francisco's Trans-Bay Terminal

The old concrete San Francisco antiquity that used to house the terminus of the ACTransit buses from the East Bay was demolished a few years ago.

The new Trans-Bay Terminal is slowly rising from the site. It's slow because the site is severely restricted in size and working/storage/marshaling space.

Rudy walks by this area almost every morning. Today he captured a great image of rising construction.

 That white steel structure left of center will eventually support the glass roof in the Grand Hall of the new terminal.

Can't wait for future construction pics as this significant addition to the Bay Area transit infrastructure takes form.