Forgive me if posted before----I found a new time waster, errr research tool

 

Here is UC circa 1968

 

<a href="http://www.historicaerials.com/?poi=2895"><img src="http://www.historicaerials.com/featuredPOIImage.aspx?poi=2895" /><br /></a> 

Old Crosley Field

 

<a href="http://www.historicaerials.com/?poi=2896"><img src="http://www.historicaerials.com/featuredPOIImage.aspx?poi=2896" /><br /></a> 

Way cool. They even show Riverfront under construction!

 

Also, if you go south a little from Crosley field, you can see Union Terminal with its concourse still intact.

OMG!  awesome website!

 

This one almost made me cry!    Present day Glenway Crossing with what was known as the Cheviot Switchyard, complete with rail-right of ways and infrastructure.

<a href="http://www.historicaerials.com/?poi=2898"><img src="http://www.historicaerials.com/featuredPOIImage.aspx?poi=2898" /><br />Aerial photography from the past to the present!</a> 

 

Ugh!  What could have been!

Great site! Thanks for sharing.

Good lord this could take up a lot of time.  Thanks a lot.

Yeah, good thing I don't have a life.  Be sure to check out Jefferson Ave. before the horrible EPA building and MLK before it was widened.  And the CL&N yard before Broadway Commons.  And the base of Mt. Adams before I-471.

Truely sad what all has been lost to street widening and highway expansion.

My God.....what have we done??????  For those who don't believe OTR isn't thinning out too much, here's your proof.  With current conditions of many buildings, it could get MUCH less dense in the next ten years.  I remember the huge change at the base of Mt Adams as 471 was built.  This is a horrible reminder.

^you think that is bad, check out the startling difference in downtown cleveland from 1952 to 2002, sad to see what once constituted the warehouse district

you can also turn on a <current> streets overlay to help decipher where you are at

 

at the time of the 1968 photos of Cincy they were clearing a path for I-71 in Evanston and Norwood

^ I know... the path I-71 took killed a large amount of neighborhoods. I was looking at it and following the path with my girlfriend last night and she couldn't believe how drastic it was.

 

I've decided to change my major...I want to make sure this kind of thing never happens again.

I just did this for my neighborhood.  It shows 1952 & 1970 Shaker Square itself.  you can see the loop turn around for the train.  It appears not much changed in that time frame.

 

ETA:  I just looked at my parents neighborhood.  It looked like present day sprawl.  No pools, just land.  1952 none of neighbors except for the halle's had a pool.

 

Betweem the Halle Mansion private drive and Eaton, there are only two other homes and they are on the Cleveland Hts. side of "the drive".  Beaumont was farmland.

 

Hathaway Brown is one Building.  Byron Junior High (Shaker Middle School) and Thorton Park doesn't exist. 

 

The reverse Warrensville & Shaker train station with the loop is there and so different.

 

you can see how the Clusterfuck at Warrensville and Van Aken (or Moreland back then) and Randall Park developed.

 

Question?  Was Warrensville hts. N. Randall & the Old Warrensville Township apart of another school district in the 50s?  Or was Warrensville junior high school the High School back then?

 

This it totally a time machine!

 

^you think that is bad, check out the startling difference in downtown cleveland from 1952 to 2002, sad to see what once constituted the warehouse district

 

If you think THAT'S bad, try downtown Columbus before 1951!

^you think that is bad, check out the startling difference in downtown cleveland from 1952 to 2002, sad to see what once constituted the warehouse district

 

If you think THAT'S bad, try downtown Columbus before 1951!

 

I was just looking at downtown cleveland near teh jake.  The highway has destroyed so much.  im depressed.  Ohio City, Tremont, South Downtown.

 

I'm depressed.  :| :-[

 

looking at the near westside in 1952 there appears to be a stadium/school east of 71 and south of where 490 begins.  What school is that?

Now why did I go and look at the Hough Neighborhood?!  :'(

I'd been looking for an aerial of Stratford Manor for ages.  Thanks, Mr Sparkle.

Holy Crap! No EPA in Clifton makes a big difference!

 

Along 75 (S to N):

Nice to see the old Jefferson Ave exit at the bottom of Death Hill.  What was that next exit?  Doesn't look like 12th Street.

No Clarion Hotel (or whatever)  you know the round one in Covington.

Say what you want but Corporex has done alot for Covington's DT/riverfront.

So was there no exit to 5th Street Cincinnati from 75 NB in 1968?  I'm missing it.

West End, we miss you.  That was alot of freeway in 1968.

No MLK extension to UC.

Looks like Ctl Pkwy was a nice treelined street.

Does the RR overpass just south of Towne Street still exist?

No RR interchange.  RR ends at Galbraith.

Wow.  How new was the Lockland Split?  It looks shined up!

That GE parking lot was packed to the gills!

Chester Road is cow country and is that a drive-in I spy across the freeway.

No Union Center (obviously).

DARN!  Imagery on goes as far as the old Beckett Road.

I-75 cut in the hill in KY 1968-NOW... all I have to say is WOW would that have been fun to drive on in the winter.... lol

They've recently added 1956 for Cincinnati.  This really shows the UC expansion.

I don't know how I missed this thread back when it started, but that site is just about the coolest thing ever.  But man is that depressing stuff for every Ohio city.