Temecula City Hall

Tanya at the Temecula City Hall. (Tom photo)

Tom at the Same Place. (Tanya photo)

View to the West from Temecula City Hall Fountain. (Tanya photo)

This afternoon we visited the Temecula City Hall for the first time.


The building is almost brand new and it is first class. The architecture is inspired by the old California Missions with a strong touch of The Alhambra.


In fact it is just the place a calif might want to live in--and that's not too bad. Pretty fountains--some beautiful rare potted plants--quiet--clean--well lighted--air conditioned. We had the same reaction as when we visited the State pyramid building in Sacramento: These bureaucrats sure know how to treat themselves well!

This fine new building is located on the Old Town side of the freeway at the edge of the few square blocks of restored old-fashioned buildings which make up the Temecula Old Town--that's why the view above looks like a turn of the century--the nineteenth century that is--town with traditional mainstreet buildings and two-lane main street. 

Of course, the fact is, this is an illusion.


Present day Temecula has nothing to do with any Old Town. It is a late twentieth Century Southern California sprawl designed for automobile locomotion--period. Single family ranch-style houses-- shopping  malls--acres of paved parking lots and hundreds of thousands of cars--that's Temecula.


The day was just about perfect-- warm spring sunlight passing through the Temecula mist and little traffic--we shared the thought: This is not such a bad place to live!

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