The Royal Edward Victualling Yard, Pyrmont (Sydney), 1988. Now the centrepiece of an extensively redeveloped and gentrified area (see comment below), when I knew it, it was a rough decaying docklands.

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A black and white photos of a misty winter's morning on a vacant lot of industrial land in urban Emeryville, California, pre-gentrification. In the foreground an old comfy chair and some discarded carpet and rugs; in the background a steelworks and sundry freeway billboards, warehouses, etc.

Another view of the old Emeryville, 1990, on the cusp of gentrification. We're looking across what's now the Sonesta Hotel site towards Barbary Coast Steel (now an Ikea); the freeway's on the right.

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A typical late 1980's - early 1990's Emeryville / West Berkeley scene, pre-gentrification: the Hygenic [sic] Dog Food factory in the middle distance, what became the Greenway coursing down the middle (the railroad tracks…), several low-slung warehouses, etc., a dead car abandoned next to the tracks, and a painter seated to the right of the photo with an easel painting the scene. A long-lost E'ville and West Berkeley, in other words…

The artist at work (West Berkeley / Emeryville, 1990). The old, long-lost pre-gentrification version of the area… (the railroad lines here are now a nice greenway, for instance).

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A black and white photo of a large old and very angular bit of a large old brick-and-steel power station in Sydney's inner city back in 1988. A prominent part of my extended neighbourhood back then(ish)…

The old White Bay Power Station, Rozelle (Sydney), 1988. I used to walk past this fave monster at least once a week on the way to band practice. Of course it's been gentrified now…

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My last Now and Then for a while… Brocks Lane, Newtown, Sydney, 1988, pre-gentrification. As always with gentrified Newtown, it’s quite different nowadays, but still recognisable.

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A black and white photo of a two-storey brick shopfront on a one way city street on a slight slope. The left half of the shopfront is painted white and contains a large ground floor display window with little figures in it; next to the white bit is an narrow old door with "105" painted on it.

One more Now and Then from Newton (Sydney) in 1988… 105 Wilson Street pre-gentrification, when it housed a struggling artist studio of some sort, IIRC.

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An old half-gutted eight-storey brick and steel residential building rears up over King Street, Newtown; it has the words ALPHA HOUSE written down the northern side.

Now and Then… Alpha House in 1988, at the top end of King Street, Newtown (Sydney), just as developers got to it. It used to be a haven for artists, musicians, etc., but gentrification loomed…

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A black and white image of a long narrow two-storey brick building (a workshop, originally) that has tall narrow windows along the sides. There are a lot of power cables strung above it.

Now and then… 131 Wilson Street, Newtown (Sydney), 1988. I used to live a bit further down Wilson Street (on top of a sandwich shop). See comment for current (gentrified) state…

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A large old wooden warehouse or factory stands on Wood Street in West Oakland; the facade is an irregular polygon, painted two different sorts of blue, and with boarded up windows and entrances. The windows are painted a deep sort of purple. I've been watching this building through its ups and downs for decades…

Wood Street, Oakland (2001). This is what it currently looks like, nearly twenty-five years later: maps.app.goo.gl/e7pGsaB5tFxS... — kinda different, no?

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The skeletal structure of the gasometers (gas holders) north of Kings Cross Station on York Way rise up against a typically bleak London summer sky.

York Way, London, 1986. The old gasometers or gas holders north of Kings Cross, an icon of my London years. Now turned into expensive Grownup Hipster flats in the middle of a totally-changed area.

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A small dead motorcycle rests against a typical weathered dirty brick wall north of Kings Cross station, London. The word CHiP is graffitied onto a large black door in the brick facade.

CHiP (York Way (Kings Cross area), London, 1986(ish)). It doesn't look much like this any more, is all I'll say…

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Am old rectangular four-story brick warehouse with large glass windows stands next to an eight-lane freeway in Oakland. It has a signs on it saying "SELF STORAGE" and "BUSINESS STORAGE", with phone numbers. In the foreground, some dumpsters.

The old Store-Ur-Self (yes!) warehouse right next to Interstate 880 in Jingletown (January, 2003). Later converted to very expensive lifestyle lofts ("The Cotton Mill Studios").

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An old brightly-coloured four-storey warehouse with the words "Emeryville Warehouse Co." emblazoned across the top of part of it stands back from a parking lot full of ancient-looking vehicles.

The Emeryville Warehouse Co., Emeryville, California, early 1990's. Once full of musicians, sculptors, potters, artists, etc with studios, rehearsal space, etc., the Warehouse inevitably succumbed to gentrification.

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A defiantly worn but still in-use multi-story tin shed complex stands on Glascock Street ; it has corrugated panels of different (faded) colors, and the arms of some sort of crane poke out from near the top of the main facade over the sidewalk.

A defiantly worn but still in-use multi-story tin shed complex stands on Glascock Street ; it has corrugated panels of different (faded) colors, and the arms of some sort of crane poke out from near the top of the main facade over the sidewalk.

The old sheds on Glascock Street, Jingletown, still in use when I took the photo (2002). Later expensively re-architected…

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Three large nearly-derelict metal-clad sheds sit on the banks of Oakland Estuary near Park Street Bridge; they're reflected in the water below. They have bright metallic facades and dark roofs. There are a handful of small boats on a floating dock in front of the nearest shed.

Jingletown's old tin sheds on the banks of Oakland Estuary, 2002(ish). These were torn down for the inevitable cheap-looking condos soon after; the artists and craftspeople, etc., who lived in the sheds were booted out (of course).

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The old Berkeley Steel plant — a bunch of large and small sheds and buildings made of corrugated tin or masonry — sits abandoned next to Second Street in West Berkeley,heavily graffitied but otherwise still the riot of shapes and colours it's been for years, both as a working plant and later.

The old Berkeley Steel plant — a bunch of large and small sheds and buildings made of corrugated tin or masonry — sits abandoned next to Second Street in West Berkeley,heavily graffitied but otherwise still the riot of shapes and colours it's been for years, both as a working plant and later.

The old Berkeley Steel plant — a bunch of large and small sheds and buildings made of corrugated tin or masonry — sits abandoned next to Second Street in West Berkeley,heavily graffitied but otherwise still the riot of shapes and colours it's been for years, both as a working plant and later.

The old Berkeley Steel plant — a bunch of large and small sheds and buildings made of corrugated tin or masonry — sits abandoned next to Second Street in West Berkeley,heavily graffitied but otherwise still the riot of shapes and colours it's been for years, both as a working plant and later.

A short walk down Second Street, Berkeley, this morning, with a decent camera (and some perspective correction done later — I don't use a view camera any more, at least not in places like this…).

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An unassuming low-slung beige-brown building housing the Home Cafe on Seventh Street in West Berkeley has a long sign on it, bookended by Coca-Cola ads, with the words "Working Man's Breakfast" and "Truckers Lunch". The several windows and door have brown metal grilles on them.

Working Man's Breakfast, Trucker's Lunch — The Home Cafe, West Berkeley, 1989(ish), before gentrification totally changed the area. Now you'll probably see lines of hipsters waiting for their chai lattes and kombuchas…

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A line of yellow concrete trucks recedes into the distance away from the camera off Oakland's The Embarcadero. Each truck has a bunch of black and grey tires and wheels in weird and unlikely places.

A very concrete abstract… (The Embarcadero, Oakland, 2005). The concrete plant's long been replaced by blocks of crappily-built condos, of course.

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A decrepit yellow(ish) and brown house with boarded-up windows sits on the street in West Berkeley; it has the word "eternal" painted on its right hand side.

The eternal house, West Berkeley, this morning. I've been taking pix of this place for literally decades; it hasn't changed much in all that time.

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A wide-angle monochrome shot from the street of a dirty-looking medium-rise old stone office building in Little Britain (yes, it's a street name) in The City of London (IIRC). The facade has a bunch of geometrically placed windows on it; two of the windows are thrown open. When I took it (1986?), the building was still in use as a government office building, if I remember correctly.

Little Britain, London, mid-1980's.

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Two dilapidated (but still in use back then) older buildings stand on the edge of 34th Street in Oakland, California. One — the New California Barber Shop — has a roughly square facade with blue trimmings and a large door in the middle, but no windows. The other — The House Of God Spiritual Temple — is a two storey place with a sharply-angled roof and a beige(ish) facade edged in a sort of red. The lower floor has a small central door and two sets of church windows, the central pane of which is cross-shaped.

The New California Barber Shop and The House of God Spiritual Temple, Dogtown, Oakland, California, 2002. Two of my fave Oakland buildings in what was once one of the rougher neighbourhoods (Dogtown) of a rough city.

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A grim-looking summer's day in inner Norf Lunnun: the famous gasworks or gasometers north of Kings Cross / St Pancras loom up over a deserted and dilapidated 1980's Thatcherite streetscape. The word "PEACE" is gratified onto the dirty brick wall to the right.

London, 1986.

Off York Way, North of St Pancras and Kings Cross. The area is totally modernised and transformed nowadays, but the gas holders are still there, turned into luxury flats.

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