Tuesday, April 25, 2006
They’re taking down the old Carquinez Bridge…
And my progress-loving ass is sort of sad.
Some of you know that I used to live at the base of the Vallejo side of that bridge...I was a student at the California Maritime Academy for a couple of years. It’s just so damned uncomfortable for something so seemingly immutable to cease to exist outside of memory.
Am I the only one who thinks about going back to places I’ll never actually go back to? I know they’ve changed the campus quite a bit, as they have many, many more students now than they did when I was there, but imagining that is not so jarring. You can take a mind-tour and add in a building here and a building there without it seeming all that strange. Trying to picture walking around with the wrong bridge in the background, though, makes me feel funny, and not really in a good way.
Ah, well. The sepia tone gets a shade darker, and life trundles on. I’m quite certain I won’t mind that I’ll likely never find myself there again, though.
It’s pretty neat the way they’re dismantling it.
UPDATE: Here are more pictures.