Field guide to fake trees, part 2...
Jul. 24th, 2004 06:30 amThis 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.
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.