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50 Pictures Showing The Same Place Decades Apart, Revealing How Time Changes Everything
Have you ever felt like time is moving a little too fast? The worst thing about it is when you feel stuck—not moving that much in life—but time keeps going and everything changes, while you haven't.
And so, you look around and notice things don't look the way they used to, even though it seems like nothing has changed that much. Well, every little change that time brings results in a big difference when comparison is applied. Today, let's do that with certain places—taking a peek at how they looked in the past and how they looked a little later.
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The Golden Cross Inn, Coventry. 1819 vs. Now
Roxy222uk 6 months ago
In case it puzzles anyone, there was a tax based on square footage on the ground, so that would be small and subsequent floors would be expanded outwards.
Rinso The Red 6 months ago
It's amazing how many architectural styles were created to avoid some tax or another.
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Ellen Samberg 6 months ago
Sorry, but how does this fit the title at all? This picture seems to show how time has not (or barely) changed things.
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Seattle (Wa, USA) Before And After Viaduct Removal
nottheactualphoto 6 months ago
I don't see any viaduct. Or is that what they're calling the elevated highway?
#3
Chichen Itza 1892 And Now
Lee Gilliland 6 months ago
If you watch the original Star Wars, undisclosed pyramids are used in the final few locals.
You probably know as the saying goes – time changes things. Or time heals things, depending on the context. Well, you get the gist of it.
Usually, people hear this phrase said to them when they experience loss, heartbreak, disappointment, or trauma. When saying this, people mean that with time the feelings about the situation will get easier, or at least the feelings will mutate in a way that will hurt in a different, more survivable way.
#4
The Berlin Wall Fell 31 Years Ago Today!
#5
The Same Mall Today And From 1984
Mark Karol-Chik 6 months ago
Online commerce killed so much. From friendships to actual places like this old mall.
#6
Ancient Greece Before And After Excavation
amy lee 6 months ago
I like that ancient Greece is like nether place nor time here. Just a vague concept
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Ruthie R 6 months ago
The stadium may have been modelled on an ancient Greek one, but it's in modern-day Turkey. Couldn't the content creators put 2 minutes into researching their articles? http://www.tuerkei-antik.de/Stadien/magnesia_en.htm
IORN 6 months ago
Technically it's correct - at the time that stadium was built, that was what we today call Ancient Greece.
Load More Replies...But is time actually a healer? Well, the answer is complicated. Essentially, time itself does not have the ability to heal, but the other things that come with it, like changes, and experiences can help with it.
As some specialists say time equates to opportunity. Basically, it all depends on how/if a person uses the opportunities the time presents to move on, to shape their future. For example, one person shielding themselves from the rest of the world and the other engaging in community (friends, family, and people like that) will result in different outcomes, even if they are trying to move from a relatively similar thing.
#7
Milan, Italy 1950s And 2021
#8
Manhattan, 1931 To 2018
Lee Gilliland 6 months ago
Central Park was originally in the suburbs. Manhattan still had streams.
#9
Abandoned Restaurant In Petrópolis, Brazil (1960's And 2013)
It should be noted that these two aforementioned ways aren’t the only ways a person can react to something that crushes them—they were just two of the simplest examples. As it always is: to each their own.
Of course, in some cases, there are things that prevent people from letting themselves be healed by time and opportunities. Whether it’s prolonged grief or other mental illnesses, refusal to let go, or denial—there can be plenty of underlying reasons why time isn’t such an effective medicine. And so, time moves on, but these people don’t.
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1955-2021. Vilnius, Lithuania
#11
Early Los Angeles Compared To 2001
#12
The Curecanti Needle, Black Canyon, Colorado, 1880s vs. 2023
Day Andie 6 months ago
Another d**n dam. Marrow Reservoir. They cut off the point of the needle. view-of-cu...needle.jpg 
The thing is that you cannot stop time from moving, no matter how much you want to. It just keeps going on, sometimes slowly, and sometimes faster. In fact, sometimes you just don’t even feel how fast it goes and things change along with it, while you feel the same.
In order to appreciate how time can change things, today we've gathered a list of pictures that show just that. Here, you will find places as they looked in the past and then how they looked a little later, showing how time and certain events that came with it altered them.
#13
The Flatiron Building, New York (1917 And 2012)
Ellen Samberg 6 months ago
Again, this does not seem to fit the topic. Considering this is nearly 100 years later, there is really relatively little change.
#14
Stonehenge: 1877 And 2019
#15
Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peninsula 1964 - 2016
In our opinion, such comparisons are perfect examples of all the things we talked about today—how time heals, or might not, and how change keeps happening whether we like it or not.
After all, sometimes it isn’t easy to wrap your head around this stuff, but pictures like these can help. Or, they might just send you spiraling even more. And still, they’re pretty interesting to look at, aren’t they? Share your takes on this topic with us in the comments!
#16
Lincoln Memorial 1922-2016
#17
My Mom And I Sitting On The Stoop Of The Bronx House That's Been In Our Family For 100 Years, Recreating A Photo Of My Great Aunt And Great-Great Grandmother Taken In The '40s
#18
Singapore, 1991 vs. 2018
#19
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
Michael P. 6 months ago
Canada too, as we don't have a high speed rail corridor in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor. Unfortunately, Via Rail doesn't own most of the tracks there as its owned by CN rail, so they are forced to yield to freight trains that can affect their on time performance.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Chewie Baron 6 months ago
This is Stockbridge. An area of Edinburgh I always wanted to live in, but never did.
#21
A Former Public Bath In Wuppertal, Germany, Now A Brewery And Beer Hall. 1993 vs. 2019
#22
Charlotte, Nc: Unsure Of The Year, But I Found What Appeared To Be A Dirt Track Near My Workplace On Google Maps. I Did Some Research And Went To Check It Out
#23
Random Neighborhood In Brooklyn In 1916 And Now
#24
Amazing Looking Home Restored In Detroit. 1993 And Now
#25
Robin Hood's Bay, England
Emma 6 months ago
sorry this was meant to be a response to Abdullah Abd Rahman
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Twenty Year Difference In Dallas, Texas (2001 To 2021)
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1920 / 2020 . San Francisco, Ca
WindySwede 6 months ago
If that is 2020, that Volvo is between 27 - 46 years in that photo, at that time.
#29
Statue Of Liberty: Left Photo By My Great-Grandfather In 1937, Right Photo By Me In 2019
#31
The Main Entrance To The City, York, England 1865 - 2015
#32
Hick's Court, St Ives, England - 1888 And Today
BlackCatWithWhiteSocks 6 months ago
St Ives was my childhood holiday place. My happy day was when dad was driving from Scotland to Cornwall
#33
Hollywood High School In Los Angeles In 1941 And Now
amy lee 6 months ago
They be just got bigger. Check out the trunk on the right
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#34
University Of Montana ~150 Years Apart
Abdullah Abd Rahman 6 months ago
They stole Native American land, removed the people and claimed it as their own .Sounds very Iike Israelis living on illegal settlements in Palestine...
Billo66 6 months ago
America doesn't stand on what we were told. No that's wrong. America is the continent, we are the scourge. We really trampled and worse over human beings and called it our Manifest Destiny? Gods Will? wtf man. It's built on the backs of the indigenous who helped us, now we turn our backs on them.
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#36
I Found This Abandoned Hotel In The Seychelles. I Found An Old Log Book In The Lobby With The Name Of The Hotel. Berjaya Mahe Beach Resort
#38
Waiting Area In Michigan Central Railroad Depot, Detroit (1965 And 2014)
#39
Lombard Street, San Francisco, Ca 1922 - 2018
#40
The Corner Of 49th St & 3rd Ave, Manhattan 1940 vs. 2021
#42
The Pines, Fallsburg, NY. (1950's-Semi Recent) Not Mine, I Thought It Belonged Here. I Borrowed This From Deadmotelsusa On Instagram
#43
Tunnel Rock At Sequoia National Park, 1952 And 2020
#44
Grand Central Terminal, NYC. 1912 Top, 2021 Bottom
#48
Chicago 1930s vs. Chicago Today
#49
1939 & 2021 - Figueroa St/Arroyo Seco Pkwy At College St Oc. Figueroa St Was Converted To Freeway In 1941
#50
Home Of The Wright Brothers. 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Oh, USA
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