After you cross the Golden Gate Bridge heading out of San Francisco, you end up in Marin County and pass through the Waldo Tunnel where the arch is painted like a rainbow (long predating the gay rights movement's acquiring the rainbow as the gay standard; the Waldo Tunnel rainbow scheme is supposed to be indicative of the rainy/sunshine climate that produces the rainbows that Marin -- and San Francisco, for that matter -- is famous for).
Here's a pic of the rainbow painted on the Waldo Tunnel:
The old joke is "That's the last color you're going to see in Marin County.", acknowledging that Marin County is practically 100% white, rich, and liberal.
George Lucas' notion to put up a public works projects on his land has got to have the Marin County Board of Supervisors bouncing off the walls trying to come up with a way to kerbosh his idea without appearing racist.
That joke is funny...never heard it before (and I’ve lived on the Peninsula almost 35 years).
Poor Waldo is about to get the heave-ho. A proposal to rename the rainbow-striped Waldo Tunnel as the Robin Williams cleared a state assembly committee two weeks ago.
William Waldo was a California politician who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1853. Some things never change — naming a landmark for an UNSUCCESSFUL OBSCURE politician from 160 years ago! “Who’s Waldo?”
Being Marin County, I’m flabbergasted it isn’t being renamed the “Obama Hole.” 74.3% for Obunghole in 2012.