All sorts of spans can hold fascination, making geographic connections and, often, personal ones, too.
It’s Friday. Californians share their favorite bridges. Plus, Southern California’s oldest bookstore is looking for a buyer.
I moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles just over a year ago, and one thing that still marks me as a newcomer is how much I delight in crossing bridges in the Bay Area.
During my first trip over the Carquinez Bridge on Interstate 80 recently, I was taken with the industrial steel span and what it crossed: the wide expanse of water known as the Carquinez Strait, which separates Contra Costa and Solano counties.
That a bridge allows me to depart one county and enter another in midair seems truly magical, as anyone who has recently ridden in a car with me has heard me carry on about.
Readers have been sending me emails about their favorite bridges in California, including the most iconic ones, like the Bixby Bridge on Highway 1 in Big Sur, the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena and, of course, the Golden Gate.
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