London Eye - The first giant Ferris wheel

You may discern from the series of the day and night photograph collection I posted in earlier, Affair I: The Thames River, Episode II: Tower Bridge and Chapter III: The Houses of Parliament, they are all London Attractions lie on the River Thames in London borough. In this Instalment IV (sorry to say that this is the last one of the collection), I still let you travel along the river.

View from the Westminster Pass over

“London Eye” is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe. It was the tallest Ferris wheel in the time at the time it was erected. Even now, it was outdone by a new Ferris wheel in Singapore, we always remember the first one anyway.

Unendingly view from the Westminster Pier

Look up

Getting benighted

Hello...is anybody inside?

San Francisco - The Ferris Wheel

San Francisco toughened to have a theme park, Playland at the Beach many years ago, but the father of The City - A Global History recently did an interview in the New York Watcher saying San Francisco is a theme park. You know, like the Haight Ashbury trippy Tilting-a-Whirl [tm], the Mission Track Bike Hipathon, The Tenderloin Haunted Concern of Ghoulies, the brand new South Beach Rocket Harry to the Stars, Pacific Heights Lost Treasure Teach, etc

Should New York diversify and follow this theme park brevity?. Some choice quotes

So, you’ve got the nomadic rich and these students who are essentially nomadic. And then you have the help class that takes care of them. And that’s really San Francisco. San Francisco is a conurbation where a relatively small—I mean, down to 5 percent—[consign] of the population could afford a median-price house.

Deliberate on of the country—there’s this country and then there’s these giant theme parks; and one is New York and one is San Francisco. … You go there; it’s a wind up of your life. You live there for five years, 10 years. But then most people either don’t do well enough to halt, or get tired of it at some point and leave.


Is San Francisco more LaLa country than LaLa land?