Millenium

I made this photo in the year 2000. I liked the name of the store. This was a major store in a major shopping area. There were what had once been nice shops and boutiques along the street. They were all now empty and closed, or barely open as peso stores. Over the past five years, the area has made a slight come back as more tourist hotels have opened nearby, and there are actually a few shoppers. The department store remains closed and in disrepair. It is not unreasonable that this has happened. Most of the elites and the upper middle class Cubans departed early in the history of the revolution. As the people from the country side moved into the city, they had to learn how to finction in the city. By the time they were educated and ready for assimilation into society, they had been indoctrinated into the great middling effect of revolutionary thinking. The 1900s were in fact a final century for a way of life in Cuba. Things have changed for the better and the worse, but they will never return to the way they were in the last mid-century.