If you live in Sacramento, you've probably seen this water tower. At one time, the plan was to paint it to look like a giant tomato. But some city official thought that was too undignified, and so now it says
WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO
CITY OF TREES
which is so weak! Sacramento does have a lot of trees, but it has two much better names: the Camellia City, and The Big Tomato. I thought of this today when I drove to Woodland and saw that the wall at the city limits says: Historic Woodland, City of Trees. You can't have two cities within 20 miles of each other with the same name — and WOODland has a much better claim on it.
(I'm using an Internet photo of this tower because my HP camera died. I ordered a Kodak camera from TigerDirect... this is my second HP that died, so I'm going to try something else.)
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