So many new buildings are rising around downtown my head spins whenever I’m out for a walk.
In the past few years a host of gleaming high-rises has materialized near the water, and the Embarcadero has been so dramatically improved I can barely recall the way our waterfront once appeared.
This morning during a walk I captured some dreamlike visions with my camera. And my mind began to ponder the stealthy passage of time. The past can be so difficult to remember…the future can be so difficult to envision…
If you’d like to time travel on this blog, here are some links concerning past construction along the Embarcadero, in chronological order.
I myself hadn’t visited some of these old posts for years. Memories were rekindled…
San Diego’s Embarcadero made more beautiful.
San Diego’s big new waterfront park opens!
Improvements on North Embarcadero celebrated!
Timeline shows history of San Diego’s Embarcadero.
Grass grows again at historic Lane Field!
Bay Cafe makes way for new observation platform.
Fun sculptures debut at San Diego waterfront park!
Workers install engraved name pavers at Broadway Pier.
Last chance to enjoy Anthony’s at the waterfront.
Buildings rise and fall along San Diego’s waterfront.
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Richard, I love the dreamy reflections of building on water!
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Me too!
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I’m happy you find the changes to the Embarcadero to be an improvement. Often we regret changes, miss what has been lost. Though, perhaps often?, we are then romanticizing the past and robbing ourselves of the present…
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Not much was lost–mostly plain walkways and parking lots! Almost anything at all would have been better. But I do like the changes so far…and there’s much more to come–further north on the Embarcadero and down around Seaport Village. The latter I might miss. Many good memories.
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