Fish Out of Water

Musings about life & travel from an East Coast native living on the Left Coast in the CA State Capitol since 2004 and now also spending time at a home-away-from-home in Evanston, IL. This fish has lived 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); & 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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