Thursday, July 31, 2014
The view of Oakland from the top of the Tribune Tower
The Tribune Tower is an iconic landmark in Oakland. It used to house the city's newspaper. Now, there's a restaurant downstairs where the printing presses used to be and the rest of the building consists of offices. A colleague has an office there with access to the very top where the clock is.
It was really neat to see the city from a different perspective.
This is looking west, towards Broadway, the federal building, and Civic Center Plaza:
The island in the background is Alameda, Murilee Martin's famed Island That Rust Forgot.
Lake Merritt and Oakland Hills:
I took this only because the Wells Fargo sign, which everyone sees on a daily basis from the street level, is HUGE from up on the 22nd floor:
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