From Under the Bridge

On the walls in my office building there are some old black and white photos of what the city and the people who lived here used to look like.  Before we know it, a few of these pictures below may be historic images from a long lost time in Corpus Christi.  We went down to take a few photos of the boys with the Harbor Bridge, as it slowly draws nearer to it's end.  The bridge is one of the main symbols of the city, as the gateway to the port, with neon lights that illuminate the night, and it's been the only way to go straight north over the water since 1959.  But it's metal structure doesn't hold up well with the salty sea air anymore, and it's not quite tall enough to allow for the massive ships that need to come in these days.  So over the next couple of years it will get to watch as the state spends $700 million to build its replacement just a little ways inland.  It's a pretty impressive structure, as far as bridges go, and I guess it served it's purpose for more than half a century.  The boys don't think about these things too much now, but maybe someday they'll look back at these old photos and have a glimpse into what this place used to look like.    

So if this post ends up in a book I make for their mother - like most of the posts that have come before this - then maybe someday these boys will look back at what the city used to be, and what they used to look like when we were all younger.