[Leica] Concrete buildings on UC Davis - ick

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Jeffery, you wouldn't recognize Winters now. It's growing along the
foothills and outside - people driving I-505 into the Bay Area and
Sacramento now. The victorians are all being remodeled and now they
have The Palms which moved from Davis a few years ago. It's still a
very very civil little town. The Buckhorn still makes the best
Tri-tips in Yolo County.

Unfortunately UCD has pushed the campus core density way up. It's
still bikes and pedestrians only, thank God but now there are 27,000
students. I was at UCD only a few years after it became a general
campus (before then it had been the university farm and is the largest
land grant college in the US).

Davis was about 18,000 in 1971, now it's 60,000 and only because it
has been intensely no-growth. Which has done wonders for the value of
my home but changed the face of the town in not-so-nice ways.

Adam

On 2/13/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> I spent the summer of 1971 in Davis (actually, in a trailer in Winters, 
> CA).
> The UC Davis campus was nothing to write home to mother about, but the town
> of Davis was charming. Separate lanes for bicycles. A college town through
> and through, like Sonny's town.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Adam
> Bridge
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:27 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Concrete buildings on UC Davis - ick
>
>
> Someone, somewhere, decided that unpainted concrete makes for the perfect
> look for the UC Davis campus.
>
> I've seen a few buildings of this ilk that I thought looked decent but none
> of them are at UCD. To me the look like something out of cold war
> propaganda, only needing a spy in a trench coat and some fog. (We have the
> fog, used to have the spies too but they were caught.)
>
> I shot these to explore the middle greys.
> The entrance to the Dean's office of Letters & Science:
>
> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/12/DeanLS.jpg>
>
> I like this one a little better. I'm claiming it as a statement:
>
> <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/12/LectureHall.jpg>
>
> Did either of these work for you? Why or why not?
>
> M6 TTL, 50 sumicron, Tri X @ 400 in XTOL 1:3, 12.5 minutes.
>
> Thanks for looking and for commenting.
>
> Adam
>
>
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