Sometimes my Flickr photo stream seems like a line up of construction pictures. I am not really that keen on the building trades; it's just I enjoy documenting changes as they occur in my part of the city.
I've not been home to the place of my childhood for quite some time. When I do go, it is always a little shocking not so much for what has changed, but what hasn't. I can compare that to where I live now. We're not really a hotbed of unbridled development in New Westminster; however, from year to year many changes take place.
I like being able to see photographs of even few years ago. There are new buildings, and completely different businesses. Of course, now that we've lived here for fourteen years, these differences add up. The towers behind the photo below were not even on the planning boards when we lived right behind them. Just the facade of the building shown is being saved in the "Plaza 88" development. I only knew the place as the home of the Salavation Army Thrift store before it moved across the street into the old BC Electric terminus building. I think the new Safeway or one of the other business in the new complex will exist here in the seeming blink of an eye.
