Downtown Waterbury CT

Spent a few hours in Downtown Waterbury CT Saturday. Unfortunately, downtown is not the place it once was. Not even the place I remember as a child, even then long past it’s prime. Although the bones are still there, the beautiful architecture of a bygone era. Only a few stores and restaurants are open on the weekend, seemingly struggling to survive. Pawn shops and check cashing stores are more prevalent.

Wandering around on a Saturday morning it felt a bit desolate, depressed, as a result I didn’t feel I was getting any good shots. However, after editing my photos I saw a story beginning to emerge, not a story of desolation and depression but of people and places struggling to find it’s way, trying to regain some of it’s former vitality.

I look forward to returning when it warms up, perhaps on a weekday when businesses are open and more people about. We will see what stories I find then. Is this a story you might be interested in following?

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