Fish Out of Water

Musings and observations about life from an East Coast native now living on the Left Coast in the California State Capitol since 2004. This fish has made her home in Madison, WI (7 years); Portland, OR (2 years); Las Vegas, NV (7 months); Middlebury, VT (3 summers); Marne-la-Vallee, a small town east of Paris, France (6 months); Middletown, CT (3 years); and Marshfield, MA, the fish's coastal hometown 40 miles south of Boston (17 years).

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Location: Sacramento, California, United States

8.07.2014

Day 131: Esquire Building

CPCA's office used to be located in the Esquire Building at 1215 K Street: 


This tower provides a neat example of urban mixed-use development, with offices on the higher floors and the Esquire Grill (part of the local Paragary's empire) and Esquire Imax Cinema at the street level:




The most striking aspect of this building is the tall glass spire that extends up the corner on 13th & K Streets.  During the day, this looks like a simple decorative element, but at night, the entire column glows blue and can be seen guiding the way to downtown, even from the I80 freeway that's nearly 1 mile to the south:






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