This is how the Holiday Tree in front of San Francisco City Hall was lit at night two years ago:
Via Steve Rhodes, who, like Visa, is Everywhere You Want To Be.
And here’s how it looks this year, with all the color drained out:
See the difference?
Apparently, it costed five-figures to remove the color from the lights on the Great Christmas Tree of Civic Center.
O.K. fine…
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*OUR* tax dollars were spent to make the trees less pretty???
WTF?
Pretty much. They reused the colorful lights for something else, but pretty much…