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Originally Posted by LA21st
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They seemed even odder back in the late 1980s when I was going to school at UC Santa Barbara, when going up the 101, it looked like two office towers in the middle of strawberry fields. The effect has lessened somewhat, as generic-looking suburban development surrounds these towers now. There also seem to be more freeway overpasses in that area now than back in the late 1980s.
I remember at the time, a guy at UCSB (who was from Oxnard) telling me that they were the tallest buildings between Los Angeles and San Francisco. I wonder if that was true, and I wonder if it still is?