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In a town that seems to consider good architecture as something as disposable as week old bread Saba's was a virtually pristine example of early Postwar Modern. The redevelopment agency in their efforts to improve Baker Street apparently didn't give much thought to how those new planters would work visually with the facade of Saba's but now with them moving it probably won't matter. It likely will be remuddled into some cheap contemporary looking place as nondescript and forgettable as the rest of its neighbors. Those, by the way were quite interesting buildings before they got "modernized" after the 1952 earthquake meaning all visual character was removed as they were converted into boring boxes. Movie directors needing a good backdrop for good 1950's vintage scenes will need to look elsewhere. In Bakersfield the only old building worth saving are the ones that can be poked away in Pioneer Village. Otherwise they get a trip to the landfill.
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