Talk about the difference between night and day, darkness and light, bad and good, ugly and appealing:
I examined the photograph of Cocoa Beach very closely; according to google images, that's what it is.
<<<wouldn't know the difference between Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Fresno, California.
Notice that the photograph was
deliberately taken so the buildings would be w-a-a-a-a-a-y in the background.
There's a reason for this.
Some here might remember during the Brezhnev era (1964-1982), how the socialists touted all these modern new flats for the workers and peasants; they were usually uniformly yellow concrete, and nine or eighteen stories high, little or no variation. In the photographs, they looked neat and trim and orderly.
Problem, however. They were photographs
always taken from a distance, never close up.
Close up--and remember, franksolich actually stayed in some of these places--one could see the crumbly concrete, the cracking exterior walls, the rusted balcony railings about ready to fall off, the broken windows, trash parked on the balconies and around the bases of the buildings, mud all over the place, grafitti galore.
One wonders why google images of Cocoa Beach show buildings only from a distance, never up close.
