Rediscovering the old RIT

(To start this off...) Overtime, obviously things change. We grow up, new buildings are built, and landscapes change...nothing is permanent in life, the same can be said about a place. In the 1960's RIT moved from its downtown, small campus, to the one we are in today, outside of downtown, and very large. Where RIT used to lay downtown, now has highway 490 running through it. Recently, I came across an article from npr about finding old photographs and finding their locations, and then comparing the two. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/looking_backwards.html

This picture is taken in area that used to the central hub of campus. From the photo, it doesn't per-say look like this photo really belongs in this place, because the building that its taken in front of got a new face lift/makeover. Today the building is Rochester's public schools administrative building, then it was the clark building, the central hub of campus student life. The area that RIT used to be located was in the third ward, which was a fairly well to do area, but now when you walk around its run down... not the worst Rochester... but for sure not the best. And walking around this area made me think of what downtown would have been like if RIT stayed put, was RIT the demise of downtown Rochster? Or if RIT stayed, sure there would have been a major highway through the middle of it, but would the city still be as rundown all around it as it currently still is? There are no answers to these questions but for sure its something to think about...