VFYW: "A Misty Valium"

For contest #299, we take a long cruise down the West Coast.

A reader wrote in the comments section of last week’s Detroit view:

I was delighted to come across this posting, and encouraged, as always, when a national audience takes an interest in Detroit’s remarkable 1920s architecture — a decade when only New York and Chicago outpaced the Motor City in building permits, construction and steel girders reaching for…