The Picture of the week

February 13th:

Often, a caption is superfluous

Here's a shot for Super Bowl Sunday, actually nothing to do with football but posted on that day.

This is the portal into the Sutro Tunnel before it was demolished by Sierra Pacific Power in the early 1960s. It's not far from Reno, but few of us have ever seen it (as it was rebuilt, sort of...)

Photo scanned from a postcard, photographer unattributed

If one were to drive north on Stoker from West Fourth Street and glance to the east, (the right), about abeam the drive into Mountain View Cemetery, and look real hard, you could see a ghostly vestige of the long-gone Crescent Creamery - the bottling plant where we got all of our dairy products in the years following WWII. (OK, there was also Velvet Creamery and Old Home Dairy)

This is the view you'd see - the west side of the building

An earlier picture-of-the-week that we'll leave up for a while: It's a dandy; the Spanish Revival building to the left is almost 100 years old, built after a major earthquake to ensure that a beautiful city would never again be without water for firefighting

It's within a block of a popular watering hole we've all been to - it's not open to the public, but a building we'll learn more about in months to come, with some great  interior photos

The equipment it houses - boilers two stories high, steam turbine pumps, generators, water valves too big to be turned manually, is massive, and it's old - ca. 1910 - yet it operates even today, on a daily basis

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