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Old 09-13-2009, 10:02 PM
 
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Old 09-13-2009, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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No offense to the photographer, but that's seriously ugly.
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Old 09-14-2009, 01:54 PM
 
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Well to be fair, that shot excludes most of the downtown. It's actually shot from downtown, looking SE. But point taken. No matter how much the boosters try to overcome it, the old meme of the cowntown that overgrew itself cannot be shaken (and I write this as someone who once had high hopes for Downtown SJ).
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Old 09-14-2009, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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SJ has height restrictions on buildings which makes "downtown" not really feel like a downtown for a city of it's size. San Jose just will never feel like anything more than a giant suburb. It actually reminds me of Santa Ana and you can forget you're in the bay area down there.
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Old 09-14-2009, 05:58 PM
 
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Mod tag: this should be migrated to the SJ forum.

That shot was taken from the East tower of the adobe building, on probably about the 8th or 9th floor... (I should know, I sat there for many years, which makes me wonder... who took this?)

Yeah, it's looking Southeast more or less toward Henry Coe SP in the foothills on the horizon. I'm not sure what's so ugly about it. It just looks like a medium-sized downtown to me. Just what would do you think would make it less ugly? A lot of bigger, more obnoxious buildings blocking the hills in the distance? Or no buildings so that you could see clear across the floodplain to the hills?
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Old 09-14-2009, 06:19 PM
 
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Where are all the cars? Either this was taken on a Sunday morning or prior to the early 1970's.
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Old 09-14-2009, 07:23 PM
 
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Mod tag: this should be migrated to the SJ forum.
The SJ forum should be shut down, and all threads in it migrated into the SF Forum.

Other than the odd spurt of activity, the SJ Forum is as dead as a doornail.

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Old 09-14-2009, 07:27 PM
 
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Well to be fair, that shot excludes most of the downtown. It's actually shot from downtown, looking SE. But point taken. No matter how much the boosters try to overcome it, the old meme of the cowntown that overgrew itself cannot be shaken (and I write this as someone who once had high hopes for Downtown SJ).
"cowntown" was a typo ... cowtown.
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Old 09-14-2009, 07:29 PM
 
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Where are all the cars? Either this was taken on a Sunday morning or prior to the early 1970's.
Late afternoon, winter time (you can tell from the shadows and bare deciduous trees). Definitely post 1980s, based on the buildings ... back before the late 1970s, this view would have had few to zero high rises of any type and the general look would have been a place you'd not want to be after dark.
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Old 09-14-2009, 07:31 PM
 
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A picture is worth a thousand trolls.

Now that's urban, baby!
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