When I Was a Kid, I Saw Several Hand Colored 1920's Postcards Showing One These "Drive-Through Redwood Trees". Of Course the Photo Showed One of Those "Old Timey" Automobiles, Parked Inside the Tree With Everyone Standing Around In Awe. (You remember Those Old Cars: Spooked wheels, Hand Engine Crank, and External Radiator Cap!!)
But until I got here, I had never seen one of these cute demonstrations of human power over Mother Nature. Is this the same Giant Redwood Tree as was shown in those 1920's cards? Might be! As you will learn in my ZMM Sights and Scenes Photos, also In this Gallery, this park is most probably the place where the most unhappy Chris throws animal cracker crumbs to the ducks in a duck pond. As I say in those captions, the Narrator despises tourist traps and most especially places where tourist attractions result in destruction (or even distortion) of the Natural World. Here must be an especially severe form of what the Narrator hates. I conclude the Narrator's hatred is so severe, he decided not to even mention this tree, although most obviously here was here. Another thought: Although Chris had plenty to be unhappy about as he came thru this Part of California, we might conjecture that the Narrator was even more seriously distraught. We ask: Were the Narrator' own deep feelings concerting what had been done to this tree and the tourist behavior here, also communicated to Chris? And did this considerably add to Chris's bad feelings and bad behavior, here and later?
A once-upon-a-time city park, Leggett, CA.
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