I call this one “Good Luck With That”, and you can see why. At the time, I thought the pairing of these two signs was hilarious. It’s a shot taken a couple of years ago of a window in the abandoned King George Hotel…back when it was nothing but a decaying pile of despair. If you look at the reflections, you can see the old Hudson’s Bay Company store, also abandoned at the time. I missed taking a picture of a window over there, where a security company’s sign was posted right next to the broken glass.
How things have changed.
Both buildings are now front and centre parts of the recent downtown renewal. After years of neglect, it seems all of a sudden we’ve realized that we still have a city core. We’ve a long way to go, of course…but the starts so far are amazing. Most amazing of all is the fact that these projects are being started—and finished—right in the middle of a so-called recession!
In future posts, I’ll document some of the changes. Roll on, Saskatchewan.
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