Field guide to fake trees, part 2...

[senoritafish]

This was the first one I noticed. It's right at the south end of the the Long Beach freeway, where it turns into Shoreline Drive. It's pretty ratty now, because it's 5 or 6 years old, but at the time I thought. "What the heck is that? They don't really expect people to believe its a real tree, do they?"





It is, of course, an antennae of some sort, and you can see the functional parts of it sticking out above the "leaves," which are now drooping way below where they were when it was first installed. Often, as here, real trees are planted around it to try to disguise the fake tree.

Comments

[elktooth-chain.livejournal.com]

they're actually cell phone towers, and there is a "pine" variety as well as the "palm" variety in the pictures. they are reeeeeeallly tacky... i wish sometimes they'd just use regular cell phone towers, because the fake trees are NOT convincing. but hell, it's suburban socal, so they've got to make it as ugly as possible. ;)

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'll be getting to the pine ones....I figured they must be for cell phones and/or police/fire radio, since there are more and more of them all the time. I was going to post a pic of a plain one, but I've mispalced it...

[konoichi.livejournal.com]

They have those here, too, in places. :) They more usually end up as evergreens, I think.

They're really goofy. Still, I prefer them to just towers.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's not just vain So. Cal.! :)