We took our (nearly) annual roller coaster vacation to California this year, to visit a few parks in and near the southern Bay Area. One of those parks was Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy, California, the so-called Garlic Capital of the World. It’s an arrestingly scenic park, less an amusement park than a botanical garden that has some rides. One of their most popular rides are paddle boats in the shape of ducks, geese, and swans, which give you free roam in the small lake at the center of the park. It was on a bridge near the boats that my husband spotted a sidewalk stamp.

One of the posts for the guardrail has obliterated the first few letters of the contractor’s name, but I looked at a list of concrete contractors in Morgan Hill and the only one that matches is Sycamore Concrete Construction. Unfortunately I can’t find a Web site or any other information about them, except for a listing at OpenCorporates which shows the corporation being founded in 1985 and dissolved in 2022.

It seems odd that they bothered stamping a spot where it would end up being illegible, but I have to assume they did not know where the guardrail was going to be placed when they did the stamping. Maybe it was a later addition and the original fence was outside the concrete.