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People Are Sharing ‘Then And Now’ Pics On This Page To Show How Time Changes Things (40 New Pics)
Article created by: Mantas Kačerauskas
The subreddit r/OldPhotosInRealLife is pretty much the closest thing we have to a time machine. Its 596k members are constantly comparing past and present through rephotography — the act of taking a photo of a place that has already been photographed before. The end result is like a portal, fusing together two different periods.
After we at Bored Panda published our first story on this online community, we've kept an eye on it and quickly realized that its earlier posts weren't a fluke. From overgrown Machu Picchu in 1915 compared to the site in 2020 to visitors in The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in 1910 and 2019, r/OldPhotosInRealLife consistently features interesting angles, presenting things in a different perspective to the one we're used to.
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My Family Farm C.1900/2000. It Was In Our Family For 125 Years. My Childhood Bedroom Window Is In The Top Center. It Was Also My Father’s And My Grandfather’s Bedroom
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Here Is My Great Great Grandfather’s Nashville House In 1896, Two Years Before My Grandfather Was Born. This Picture Has Always Been In The Family Of Course, But Only Today Did I Use Google Maps To Look Up The Address And Find It How It Looks Today. I’m Thrilled That I Found It
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Today vs. Childhood Memory
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Czech Out Prague 1910 And 2020
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In 2005, Some Friends And I Found The Road To Jabba's Palace Off Twenty Mule Team Canyon In Death Valley, Ca
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It Hasn't Changed Much In 157 Years, Aside From The Platform Height And Electrification. The World's Oldest Undeground Station, Baker Street! *saxophone Plays In The Distance*
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Visitors In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Viewing Painting (Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing The Delaware - 1851) 1910 And 2019
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Town Square In Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany- During The Battle Of The Rhine, April 1945 And 2021
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Curtiss C-46 Commando, One Of Pablo Escobar / Carlos Lehder’s Drug Smuggling Planes Near Norman’s Cay In The Bahamas, After 35 Years Submerged In Saltwater
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Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur, India. 1798 Lithograph By Thomas Daniell And 2016. Built Between 1003-1010
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Arch Of Constantine In Rome, 1943 (Taken By My Grandfather), And What It Looks Like Today
Teri Hogan 4 months ago
Wow! Built in 312AD. It's survived all these years, including several wars, with almost no change.
#36
Stonehenge: 1877 And 2019
Teri Hogan 4 months ago
Had no idea "someone" decided to re-erect it differently. Disappointing historically.
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Woodstock Festival Site- 1969 / 2020
Skip Ahneman 4 months ago
Bethel Woods has done a fantastic job creating an Arts Center on the property. I was there in 1969 with four buddies and it was incredible. Strongly encourage a visit.
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Trains At Harper's Ferry, Wv In 1947 And 2021. The 1947 Image Taken By Ed Wittekind, 2021 Image Shot By Me In The Same Exact Spot
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Lawrence 5 months ago
Some of these illustrate interesting differences between "then" and "now," as promised in the title, but many of them seem to be pointing out that some things haven't changed very much over time. *yawn* Oh...your grampa's house looks the same as it did 60 years ago? So what? I think the exercise was widely misunderstood.
Lawrence 5 months ago
Some of these illustrate interesting differences between "then" and "now," as promised in the title, but many of them seem to be pointing out that some things haven't changed very much over time. *yawn* Oh...your grampa's house looks the same as it did 60 years ago? So what? I think the exercise was widely misunderstood.
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