Sorry for the photo overload, but I was uploading a large fresh batch, and playing with archive photos. I haven't shot in a while, but I always enjoy it, and a friend happened to be heading out to shoot (so I accompanied). It's funny how when you walk around with a camera people tend to think you don't live in the neighborhood. Typically I have either had people presume that I work in real estate, or for the police. Today's presumption was that we worked for the city government. I really do like shooting local photos, because they make you stop and look at moments that you generally otherwise miss. Once, years ago on H Street, I had a policeman on hot foot pursuit run through my shot.
Here is is. Summer of 2005.
4 comments:
funny how times and the corridor has changed
I've never regretted taking photos, but I often regret not taking more photos (and my failure to back up certain photos). One of my favorite things is to look back at old photos, and compare them to new ones, or even just what I know is there now. It's a great reminder that things are always in motion. Even a boarded up building changes with the seasons and the years. Nothing is ever really the same twice. But we don't always notice the small incremental changes. Even when there are big changes, we often can't recall what was there before. Except for people that worked on H Street, frequented certain business, or lived just north of the Corridor, I'll bet that most of us can't recall large stretches of H Street prior to around 2003. For certain stretches of the street this is true even of me (and I've lived here since 2001). Back then many people avoided the street, and unless your daily journey took you there, you didn't go. You can find, and I have posted, old video and news reports about H Street in the 1990s and even 1980s. Unfortunately, not much information about Trinidad is available online for that time period. It's a shame.
Great post. Just yesterday I fell in love with a beautiful building on H that I'd never noticed before- it's just to the east of the new HSCC building. It's quite ornate- with incredible potential.
PS: I just realized that this is the building where a guy was living on the raised front stairway for several months earlier this spring. I guess I never looked up above his mattress.
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