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      Vistas & Byways Covers from Our Time Capsule


BAY AREA VISTAS:
RECORDED ON OUR
VISTAS & BYWAYS COVERS

Retrieved from the Archives
by Mike Lambert

The Webmasters and Art Directors for our online review have always tried to live up to the title of our publication:  Vistas & Byways. They did that by displaying striking photos of Bay Area scenes on the Cover Page of our publication.  Here are the Photographic Covers from Issues 1, 2, 3, 10 and 13.  These photos are timeless.  You can go to these locations today and see similar scenes.  You can take photos of these scenes, too, for your own memories. 
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An Unidentified Local Park.  
​The trees really grow here!
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The west portion of the Bay Bridge, with Treasure Island in the background,
viewed from the San Francisco water line.  

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A view of Sutro Tower at the top of Diamond Heights in San Francisco.
​The city still has interesting nature scenes.

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Can any resident or visitor to the Bay Area
​resist a visit to Ocean Beach on the West Side of San Francisco?

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Sutro Tower in San Francisco, lighted at dusk, with a mysterious fog layer.  
​Put your coat on and explore the neighborhood.

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​Mike Lambert led the effort to start Vistas & Byways in the fall of 2015. In an earlier life, he worked in the telecommunications industry for 35 years and taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business for 15 years. He refutes the adage about old dogs and new tricks. He took up creative writing as a hobby at age 75. He self-published two novels and a collection of his short stories. His main fictional character is Jessica Jones, a single working girl in contemporary San Francisco. See his Author page at Amazon under the name of M. L. Lambert for more details. Mike now lives in a senior living facility in Carlsbad, CA.
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