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Some Nights are More Interesting than Others

The Last Few Pictures from The City of the Future Series



(#47) In the future the mightiest tower of the Empire will be lost in a forest of glass and steel.

(This tower with the cupola, the former headquarters of the Vancouver Sun newspaper and still called the "Sun Tower", was the tallest building in the British Empire when it was finished in 1922)


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Here I sit in the tower at work using binoculars kept on hand for West End human watching, watching someone at a bus stop taking cell phone pictures of a tourist taking pictures of a photographer taking pictures of a tourist's shoes while a beggar works the small crowd of locals politely waiting to walk by rather disrupt the photography.

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Three more from the City of the Future:


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