A Decade of Greensboro Daily Photo

Today, Greensboro Daily Photo celebrates ten years of posting a photo a day of Greensboro. That is 3,650 photos and double the paragraphs about this city without missing a single day. Just when we question our commitment to this community service venture, we receive positive comments from grateful readers. Positive feedback and words of encouragement have a way of sustaining this labor of love for our great community. A big spark of motivation in 2018 came from Maria Johnson's article about GDP, featured in the February 2018 edition of the O. Henry Magazine.*

Greensboro has changed considerably since we started posting in 2009. In 2011, the 78,323-square-foot indoor Greensboro Aquatic Center opened and it is so popular it is already slated for expansion. Downtown Greensboro has really become a destination, especially with the addition of LeBauer Park, opening in 2016. Housing options downtown have burgeoned. The whole brewpub industry has flourished. Access to live entertainment is growing. Greensboro hosted the National Folk Festival from 2015-2017, and is now the permanent home of North Carolina's Folk Festival. Once the Tanger Performing Arts Center is completed, even more entertainment will come to town. Midtown has branded itself as a destination. Greensboro has gone from hardly any murals to a city with a great many murals. The highway system continues to expand. These are only a few of the differences we've documented over the last decade.

In the above photo, we are actually about an hour south of Greensboro in Candor (known for its great peaches). We were out exploring, and discovered a great little Mexican grocery store in Candor, "La Tienda Yurirense". Shopping under a ceiling draped with piñatas is so absolutely festive and joyful, we decided this would be our "Mr. and Mrs. GDP" photo for the year. We hope we can sustain Greensboro Daily Photo a little longer. If you will keep reading, we will keep sharing the people and places of Greensboro, and just a little bit beyond.

Read yesterday's post, here, if you want to see some GDP highlights from 2018.

* Click here to read about the O. Henry Magazine article about GDP and here to find the whole article on p. 33.

Posted at 05:30 AM in 2019: 1st Quarter, History, People | Permalink

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I was born and raised in Greensboro, but have learned so much through your little posts. Thank you!

Posted by: Julie | Wednesday, January 02, 2019 at 07:52 AM

I always enjoy reading your posts with special discoveries, secrets, jewels and wonderful people of the Triad. I started calling this place “my second home” after leaving Buenos Aires 18 years ago and the GDP always makes me love it a little more.
Congratulations on a job well done!!
Happy Anniversary!!

Posted by: Liliana J. | Wednesday, January 02, 2019 at 08:23 AM