This thing is dripping with pathos. I don't know why an old ferry from San Diego is rotting away in the Sacramento Delta. No doubt in storage against future restoration, but these things don't last forever.
I have a particular fondness for ferry boats. Since I was a kid I wished I knew the days when ferries crossed the Bay rather than great steel bridges. Especially now, when the commute is such a frenetic thing, multitasked between traffic and coffee cups and cell phones. There was a time when, in theory, I might have spent those three quarters of an hour breathing the sea air, getting to know other passengers, assembling a commute-hour barbershop quartet. What an amazing way to bracket the day that must have been.
For the geographically inclined, this boat can be found here.
UPDATE: Found another picture of it:
7 comments:
I have come to regard "multi-tasking" for the comedic circus act that it is. It has become the norm to spend your life clawing frantically to keep from slipping down the hyperbolic curve of efficiency and diminishing returns. Screw it.
Roy
It ain't natural.
But if the few who are good at it have some sort of genetic mutation, and being a successful middle manager somehow means your children are more likely to survive long enough to have children of their own, we may be witnessing natural selection in action.
I love those old boats, too. New stuff always has greater efficiency, and less class, it seems.
I love those old boats, too. New stuff always has greater efficiency, and less class, it seems.
those were the good old days, when you dressed up in your sunday best, hopped on the waterwheel boat and took a luxurious trip up the delta while sipping on mint julips.
these days we're stuck on the immobile delta king in old sacramento drinking $14 dirty vodka martini's while dorks in their sport boats blast van halen as they cruise up and down the river near the tower bridge.
"Then all became confuze-eye-on and the stormy windes did blow...!"
Too few are good at multi-tasking for it to impart any evolutionary advantage. Everybody just thinks they are good at it, like driving and sex. (I guess at the same time, nowadays.)
Roy
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