A collection of then and now photographs taken in four Texas counties. Ready-made compositions captured then allowed to age untouched for a decade. Now geotagged, and each image contextualized. Compiled and published December 2023 thru February 2024.
01a - May 2010
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01e - March 202201 - Looking out from the upper floor at 900 Broadway, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
This location was an antiques store when I took the photograph from its upper window in 2010. In March 2022 it was a clothing store and from the outside the window has much the same view. Across Broadway the concrete bench has gone, and in the distance there is a new apartment block, but otherwise little had changed.
02a - January 2011
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02e - July 202302 - 125 5th St. Poteet, Atascosa County, Texas.
Photographed in 2011 and the tornado siren station in the foreground was still standing in July 2023 but the Poteet Public Library behind it was demolished sometime between 2010 and 2021 and replaced with a new building that today stands just to the right of this viewpoint.
03a - January 2011
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03d -context
03e - July 202303 - Just south of Ave K & 10th St. Christine, Atascosa County, Texas.
Photographed in 2011, by July 2023 the old crooked house has gone but the building behind it and the church are still there, although in contextual image 03e its hidden by trees.
04a - August 2010
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04d -context
04e - March 202204 - 1401 East Elmira St, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 the corner lot with trucks on it was due to become a 10 story residential mixed-use luxury development to be named Mira (presumably for EL-MIRA Street and maybe the view of downtown San Antonio). By March 2023 the lot has been cleared and the buildings on the right demolished.
05a - August 2010
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05e - March 202205 - 825 East Locust St, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 the Oak Farms Dairy depot had been replaced with a private fenced and gated parking lot but otherwise much the same view.
06a - August 2010
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06d -context
06e - March 202206 - 1212 East Euclid Ave, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 the Crepe Myrtle trees have gone and the shrubbery next to the building on the left has been replaced with Agave Americana. The building to the left has also had the windows either side of the door replaced with glass blocks making it look quite art deco.
07a - May 2010
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07d -context
07e - March 202207 - Near the junction of East Elmira St, River Rd, and Josephine St. in the Tobin Hill district of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 this view is little changed except for the addition of a multi-story building some distance behind the left mid-ground building.
08a - August 2010
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08e - March 202208 - 63 East Grayson St, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 the site is a Velvet Taco restaurant. The original building has been renovated and enlarged with a replacement memorial on an outside corner wall. The original Taco Land in the first image was open 1965-2005 mostly as a bar and underground music venue until a $200 robbery during which owner Ram Ayala, doorman Doug Morgan, and bartender Denise Koger were shot. Ayala died at the scene, Morgan some weeks later, Koger survived1.
09a - August 2010
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09e - March 202209 - 805 East Myrtle St, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 the stop sign, street signs, house across the road, pavement and roads, and the trees are all much the same. The building on the right had been painted dark grey, and looked unused, and the windows boarded-up with unpainted chipboard. I have not been back since but satellite imagery from January 10 2024 shows 805 East Myrtle Street as a bare lot (i.e. white/grey building demolished).
10a - May 2010
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10e - June 202210 - Looking east from roughly 5435 Ranch Road 1623, Stonewall, Gillespie County, Texas ...but known locally as Albert, population 7.
Photographed in 2010, by June 2022 this scene looks much the same except the dance hall sign has been replaced with a slightly different style and moved to the other end of the building, and there is now a metal fence in the foreground. The freestanding HughesNet satellite dish has also been replaced with a DirectTV dish attached to the telegraph pole. The notice board with the arrow on top in is still there in 2022, up against the hall.
11a - May 2010
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11e - June 202211 - Looking south from roughly 5435 Ranch Road 1623, Stonewall, Gillespie County, Texas ...but known locally as Albert, population 7.
Photographed in 2020, as of June 2022 this scene was much the same except the timber fence has been replaced by a metal one that closes off the pictured entrance to the Dance Hall parking lot.
12a - May 2010
12b - context 
12d -context
12e - June 202212 - Looking west from roughly 5435 Ranch Road 1623, Stonewall, Gillespie County, Texas ...but known locally as Albert, population 7.
Photographed in 2010, as of June 2022 this scene was much the same except there was a new metal fence from the south-east corner of the building running parallel to the road, the disabled parking sign had been moved to a post on the ramp to the right, and a large Albert TX sign added (gable end) along with an Albert Ice House sign (lower left end-wall).
13a - May 2010
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13d -context
13e - July 202313 - Inside the courtyard of The Old Lumber Yard shopping complex at 209 East Main St, Johnson City, Blanco County, Texas.
Photographed in 2010, by July 2023 the pictured section (13a) of the building had been converted to extend the restaurant that in 2010 was out of image to the left. In 2010 the restaurant was the Silver K Cafe, in July 2023 Proof & Cooper.
14a - May 2010
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14e - March 202214 - 300 Ninth Street just off Broadway, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Around the corner of from where this series of photographs started.
Photographed in 2010, by March 2022 this building had been renovated and the pictured section of wall fitted with black metal-framed windows and doors. The pipes and vents had gone, but the surrounding brick, utility cover in the pavement, and curb were little changed.
