Posted July 16, 201311 yr Did the whole historic photo thread get creamed? oh well here's a bunch of turn of the century pics around the US. Lotta boats, harbors, bridges & cities. Cleveland even makes an appearance to make it kinda Ohio oriented. http://photosilke.blogspot.co.at/2013/03/historic-pictures-restored.html
August 1, 201311 yr yeah lets get this kind of thread going again -- here is a new round: this last one shows the different style of lights in west and east berlin
August 9, 201311 yr china shenzen 1980 >350K shenzen today 15M shanghai 1987 shanghai today more historic shanghai
August 9, 201311 yr Vintage Abandoned https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
August 9, 201311 yr wow those are stunning - a real covered wagon, just sitting there any idea what year they were taken?
August 9, 201311 yr wow those are stunning - a real covered wagon, just sitting there any idea what year they were taken? The wagon in 1937. I think most of the others were taken in the 30's as well. https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
August 13, 201311 yr time traveling photo mixes: cass tech hs, detroit 1988 & 2011 much more: http://io9.com/time-traveling-photographs-reveal-history-in-the-presen-1112311208
August 30, 201311 yr Ed Gein's house probably NSFW http://killer-facts.tumblr.com/post/57966859539/photos-of-ed-geins-infamous-home-in-plainsfield
September 1, 201311 yr Couple old Springfield pics. From Springfield's long lost downtown - Limestone, I believe You could smell the peanuts about a half block away And the late Community Hospital at High & Burnett early/mid 30s
September 1, 201311 yr Here's a few from pre-war Toledo: Downtown in what I think was the 1920s Looking down Madison Avenue in 1940 Downtown in the 30s or 40s The corner of Jefferson and Superior in 1937. Today, the Huntington Center would be in the lower right corner and Fifth Third Field would be in the upper left. And one from 1968: The Fiberglas Tower under construction Courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
September 1, 201311 yr It's sad to see how much more active downtown Springfield used to be than it is now. In any event, I love the Planters Peanuts sign in the old photo. There is currently a peanut shop in Springfield (on E. Main St -- US 40) which claims to have been in business since the 1930s. They still use the original peanut roaster. I stop by there on occasion when passing through Ohio. I wonder if this is the same business (perhaps moved to a new location)? Stuart
September 1, 201311 yr shanghai 1987 shanghai today Wow. It almost looks like a bunch of futuristic buildings were photoshopped into the '87 picture.
September 1, 201311 yr Why can't we have cool lamp posts anymore? ^ these were the lamp posts in 1974^ At least those aren't there anymore.
September 2, 201311 yr woah - cool but shouldnt we have seperate threads for olde ohio and non-ohio photos?
September 2, 201311 yr Good ol' John Cleves Symmes. Yea that guy is cool Well... woulda been nice if he'd waited for Ludlow to finish surveying before selling property, but... I read a story about him somewhere - said it took him 3 days to get from, like North Bend to Cumminsville or something. Said he got lost hiding from the indians by day & wolves by night.
September 6, 201311 yr recent from antarctica: pearlescent skies at mcmurdo sound auroras at scott base a sun dog more: http://500px.com/devenphoto/sets/antarctica
September 30, 201311 yr It would've been amazing if Springfield kept that station. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 1, 201311 yr ^ these were the lamp posts in 1974^ At least those aren't there anymore. They look like bug zappers.
October 10, 201311 yr Donald Neumeister This is just a FB page, this guy is about 80 I think & lived in Northside, Cincinnati. In his photos section, he has a lot of personal uninteresting stuff but he has a ton of photos & paintings from the Cincinnati & NKY area from the 50s & 60s. https://www.facebook.com/dneumeistersr.1?hc_location=stream
October 17, 201311 yr This picture--probably taken from the around the time I was born :| --shows evidence that Painesville's downtown once had more than just tumbleweeds rolling down its streets :laugh:. The entire block was demolished in the late 70's, presumably because damage from a fire was too severe for restoration. The fact is that most of these businesses had fled by that time anyway. The Gail G. Grant store--in business since the early part of the century--was a nice department store (though decidedly not upscale) that was the closest thing P'ville had to a big-city style store, and it folded when I was still in elementary school... http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 18, 201311 yr ^you're tellin' me! lol. I guess they were just desperate because the retail center of Lake Co had shifted to Mentor in the 60's, and the federal govt (HUD?) was giving Painesville tons of money for urban renewal; and well, let's face it, historic preservation was not that big of a thing forty years ago. That said, there was still no excuse for all the wholesale destruction-- the only thing left of this block is the bank on the left which wasn't historic, just a recreation of a federal style (?) bldg, but the rest was demolished for the much heralded New Market Mall which flopped-- this block is the same one as my original picture (around the corner to the north--all demolished and replaced by some crappy looking low-rise structure). The rubble in the foreground became the home to the new Cleveland Trust Bank building around 1969/70 (now Key Bank)- http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 28, 201311 yr I found a few thousand old photos of Cincinnati street improvements taken during the 1920's and 1930's. Of course the side by side comparisons were mostly depressing, but I still thought it was interesting to see the old photos next to current day Street View from the same location so I made it easy and put them on the same page. I can do some more of these if others find them interesting: http://zfein.blogspot.com/2013/10/cincinnati-then-and-now.html
October 28, 201311 yr There was a hippie music club around Taft & Vine around 1970 called The Dome or Black Dome or something. A lot of touring acts played there before The Ludlow Garage came along. Dunno if it was in the building with the Jordan billboard or not.
November 26, 201311 yr Vintage Abandoned Most and possibly all of these photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He was literally the first person to photograph the automobile landscape, ranging from the change in signage to be readable to passing cars, to junk yards, to the class gradations that particular types of cars represented. For example, it's difficult to know today, but the convertible these two are driving in was the very cheapest convertible that could be had at that time: http://25.media.tumblr.com/d00dad34ef2a5dfe2aa7bd4ca0e4a9c3/tumblr_mqv1g1GMcS1r5ywf1o1_1280.jpg Sort of like how poor or middle class people do things that imitate that possessions and customs of the wealthy, and of course in the US the wealthy were imitating the landed gentry of England and France.
December 4, 201311 yr about time for another round? tesla shocker mlk skillz dilly dali-ing lenin wave u-boat washes ashore moon family venus if u will sagan & dali lama i dont even greed is good supercute finale
December 9, 201311 yr In the pre apocalypse thread, someone posted a picture of the Glen Canyon Dam. This episode of Route 66 was filmed on location during it's construction in 1962. bout an hour. It also has a really hot pre-Ellie Mae Clampett Donna Douglas in a small role. heh - when job interviews were for men...
December 10, 201311 yr "Ardennes Forest cars, Belgium - These abandoned cars once belonged to American service men. After the war, they were responsible for shipping their vehicles back. Many of them couldn't afford to so the cars were brought to a clearing in the forest, parked and left there."
December 11, 201311 yr Home movies in Cincinnati, Camp Washington, Mohawk, Central Parkway circa 1934
December 13, 201311 yr ^ yeah wow that was fun to see! *** i saw the original war of the worlds last night and looked up the striking 'modern' bomber they used to drop an A bomb on the martians. it was known as the northrup flying wing bomber. only two were built in 1947 and i think both crashed. there was an earlier version with propellers that saw very limited production. and yes if this plane looks familiar it is because it was the model for the stealth bomber.
December 18, 201311 yr speaking of the flying wing, check out these early planes, what were they thinking? http://io9.com/these-bizarre-multi-winged-planes-are-historys-most-a-1484799626 edit - here is a very current version, the quest for human-powered flight: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/tech/innovation/ideas-aerovelo-human-power/index.html?c=tech
December 23, 201311 yr ^ i wasnt sure, but per wiki it seems to be. interesting how much it changed over the years: Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s. Also known as Cosmo, its content as of 2011 included articles on women's issues, relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion and beauty. Published by Hearst Magazines, Cosmopolitan has 64 international editions, is printed in 35 languages and is distributed in more than 100 countries.
December 23, 201311 yr at the supermarket I go to, they cover the cover of Cosmo in the racks in the check out lanes. I make a point to liberate them. That is, I move them in front of the shield thing - I don't steal them...
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