Full circle

The beginning of the end for many.
Photo courtesy of The San Joaquin Valley Digitization Project

Look what I found! Bakersfield city planners actually made the Garces circle on purpose. I always imagined there was a good reason for the circle – like an old cow trail or something. Turns out it was somebody’s bright idea. Of course, it doesn’t look so bad in this picture, without all the trees & freeway pillars, you can actually see across the circle.

Personally, I’d like it better if it still looked this way.