Alviso remains.

Despite being surrounded by Silicon Valley and pierced by a train, it resists change. The oldest parts of it slowly sink into the wetland it's built upon.

It even somehow, impossibly, retains low-pressure sodium vapor streetlights, now a vanishingly rare sight.
the entire town bathed in a colorless yellow glow, no hue visible, only grey and black and yellow
this sort of light is almost extinct, despite being (in many cases) more energy-efficient than LEDs. Philips is ending manufacturing of SOX bulbs next year.

The ideas behind my old streetlight thread surface, once again.
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