Photographer David Perez captures the old Harbor Bridge’s dismantling in Corpus Christi, reflecting on its history and expressing hope for future developments.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The old Harbor Bridge is slowly disappearing from the skyline as crews continue dismantling the structure.<\/p>\n
Local photographer Davide Perez has captured the bridge\u2019s transformation through his camera lens, from the construction of the new bridge to the demolition of the old.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of, kind of sad to see a lot of it gone,\u201d Perez said. \u201cEver since I can remember, I\u2019ve been either running the bridge or taking pictures or videos of the bridge. It\u2019s a passion of mine just because I\u2019ve watched it my entire life. Being a runner, it\u2019s always been a challenge to run over it and back. Watching it come down before my eyes is quite amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perez hopes the area below won\u2019t sit vacant now that the bridge is gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really hoping for a lot more development. There\u2019s a lot of potential down here in Corpus. We\u2019ve been talking about this for decades, so hopefully when this comes down we\u2019ll get some new development in our area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
When asked about his next project, Perez said, \u201cPeople in the community keep asking for a book or some videos, and I will do that. I will get together either a book or some videos, collaborating the whole thing together.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the removal of the old bridge continues, Perez will be there to record it all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a passion. It\u2019s a project of love. So each picture and each video I do, I treat them all the same,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographer David Perez captures the old Harbor Bridge’s dismantling in Corpus Christi, reflecting on its history and expressing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-216008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}