We used to call it "Suckramento" down in Bakersfield.
What is it with Central Valley cities always being "down" on the other Central Valley cities? Common saying in Bakersfield was "yeah, today kind-of sucked, but it could have only been worse in Fresno." Bakersfield's reputation (somewhat deserved) of being a 24-hour Hee Haw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw) episode in the northern parts of the Valley also stands out.
Jeez, people: the whole Central Valley from Redding to Tejon Pass is a dusty agricultural shithole, only made tolerable by the fact you're a little over an hour's drive to either the beauty of the Sierras or the cool breezes of the Pacific Ocean.
When I was at university in Sacramento (oh! the irony!) there was a poster on the wall in one of my photography classes, "so-and-so's Compendium of Photographic Truths."
One of them was "A good photograph cannot be made in Fresno."
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Date: Mar. 26th, 2008 02:22 pm (UTC)From:What is it with Central Valley cities always being "down" on the other Central Valley cities? Common saying in Bakersfield was "yeah, today kind-of sucked, but it could have only been worse in Fresno." Bakersfield's reputation (somewhat deserved) of being a 24-hour Hee Haw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw) episode in the northern parts of the Valley also stands out.
Jeez, people: the whole Central Valley from Redding to Tejon Pass is a dusty agricultural shithole, only made tolerable by the fact you're a little over an hour's drive to either the beauty of the Sierras or the cool breezes of the Pacific Ocean.
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Date: Mar. 26th, 2008 07:43 pm (UTC)From:When I was at university in Sacramento (oh! the irony!) there was a poster on the wall in one of my photography classes, "so-and-so's Compendium of Photographic Truths."
One of them was "A good photograph cannot be made in Fresno."
(I've only been there once, but that was enough.)