Reused stuff

On the way to the Guan Tsai Ban, I saw an old building being renovated:

I took a picture of this building a year ago:

This is the old Hayashi Department Store built by the Japanese in the 1930's. It was famous at that time for being the first building in Tainan having an elevator!
Without elevators every building had a gravity imposed height restriction.

From the sign on the renovation, it looks like the City of Tainan is turning the building into a tourist agency. There must be at least a dozen old buildings in Tainan from the Japanese time, (80 years+) that have not been destroyed but renovated.

Here are two pictures of the same cloth billboard, one from a year ago:

And what it looks like now:

One year in the elements of sun, wind and rain has dulled the color. Notice red is the least regraded color. This poster will probably not last 80 years(I hope).