Caught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing rapid change. As the urban renewal program began to decimate the city's downtown, The memories of Bangor's days as the lumber capital of the world tried to hang on amid controversial attempts to modernize the city. Through more than 140 images "Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s" paints a picture of a city caught in the middle.