April 23, 2011
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History Meets Lomography
Back when we first moved to this part of town in 1990, there were some big branch plants for major international companies. They were the centre of a lot of shops, cafes and neighbourhoods that sprang up to service all the people that worked in those factories.
About a year earlier, Canada signed a big trade agreement with the US and it soon became a lot cheaper to make these products elsewhere and ship them into the country. Within six months of our moving there, they closed the plants and six months later they bulldozed the plants.
Most of it is still brown and grey fields. Just this one old office building left.
Comments (1)
kinda sad about these abandoned buildings … and the livelihoods that evaporated with their demise … I miss the “neighborhood” businesses that I grew up in … seems like the world is spinning faster … great photos …