Yesterday, Monterey

[weofodthignen]

I took a few shots of the bay as we drove in:


It was a glorious blue-skied day and the place is surprisingly full of old Spanish houses:




and the shopping streets have lovely old buildings, lovingly reused:










although this has fallen victim to the Great Recession:


I don't like Spanish architecture, but this cinema is fun:


and this is a lovely skyscraper:




All the historic buildings were closed except Colton Hall, the former town hall where the California Constitution was written when it was a new building, in front of which was a park with among other monuments, this one to the town:


and these bears:


Here's the exterior of the Larkin House:


and the adjacent shack that Sherman lived in for a while, and what I assume is the Masonic Hall:


Inside the shack (through the window):


and the garden and its well:




The oldest theatre in California:


The Customs House


And they have some nice new buildings too. Here's the city museum:


and the mural on the Convention Center.


And of course I will end with the view of the hills from town.

Comments

[heethen_crone]

Beautiful. Nice you had such good weather for sight seeing.