
A group of late night bar patrons approaches the back of The St James Theatre. Once one of the most sumptuously decorated cinemas in Auckland, along with nearby Civic Theatre, The St James is now nearly derelict. A monument to a bygone era, its seating and projection booths are gathering dust.

A young man sits on the side of the road at the far end of Mills Lane, during the early hours of the morning. This narrow street is lies parallel between Albert Street and Queen Street, connected to the latter just before this spot by a narrow winding staircase.

Party Seekers walk past Finance Plaza, illuminated just after midnight, on New Year’s Eve. Most of the New Year’s revellers were assembled on the corner of Queen Street and Victoria Street, with a few people heading Downtown. Called Chase Plaza during the mid 1980′s, the name was changed after the Stock Market Crash of 1987, and the events that followed for the Chase Corporation.