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People Are Sharing ‘Then And Now’ Pics On This Page To Show How Time Changes Things (30 Pics)
Rephotography is the act of taking a photo of a place that has already been photographed some time ago. While being a challenge for the photographers to recreate all the angles as close as possible to the original, these images also speak wonders about the passage of time.
Whether we're looking at expanding cities or melting glaciers, these side-by-side comparisons tell fascinating stories about the state of the world we live in as well as humanity's abilities to create and destroy.
A few subreddits -- most notably, r/OldPhotosInRealLife -- have created huge archives of these photos, so we're inviting you to take a look at some of the most fascinating ones.
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#1
My Grandfather And I In Tokyo, 73 Years Apart
sam thecat 5 years ago
That’s an old guardhouse, belonging to the palace.
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grey galah 5 years ago
I can't help thinking how wonderful he is to remember his GD and organise the photo.
Barb Braun 5 years ago
I love that the new buildings didn't require the removal of the existing trees.
Looking at some of these photos, human progress seems self-evident. City skylines keep expanding, people within them switch from horses to cars... But that's just the visuals. How do we actually calculate our advancement?
For this task, many use the Human Development Index (HDI).The HDI provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of our development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge, and a decent standard of living.
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#2
The Arctic 103 Years Ago Compared To Today
DC 5 years ago
And still, people actively refuse to accept this, refuse to change behaviour even when they themselves would benefit from it, too - and even forge graphs and stuff to be in favor of their ignorance. Even get elected BY being so, not in spite of it. We, humans, suck big time!
Saico Hipe 5 years ago
That is pants-crappingly terrifying. The robber-barons have nearly screwed our ecosystem beyond the hope of repair.
Michael McDaniel 5 years ago
Just wondering if the pictures were taken at the same time of year.
The Human Development Index utilizes four key metrics: 1) life expectancy at birth – to assess a long and healthy life,
2) expected years of schooling – to assess access to knowledge for the young generation, 3) average years of schooling – to assess access to knowledge for the older generation, 4) gross national income (GNI) per capita – to assess the standard of living.
#3
Chichen Itza 1892 And Now
A Shipper 5 years ago
That's so cool. I've never thought about it but, of course it would have been overgrown.
F. H. 5 years ago
That's the reason why they are still finding new onws. The jungle swallows them in a way that you can't even see them from a plane or drone.
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andate him 5 years ago
Or maybe it would have been better preserved underground, not exposed to erosion and tourism?
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Gis Irigoyen 5 years ago
Is not the same pyramid... the first one is located in the jungle of Chiapas, the small room of top is very famous and if you compare it with the one in Chichen Itza is smaller and more rounded
Zsuzsanna Dvornik 5 years ago
I suspect they are not the same Ancient Mayan ruins - the one overgrown by vegetation looks more like the top of the temple-pyramids in either Uxmal or Kabah.... which doesn't change the fact that Chichen Itza was also overgrown & surrounded by dense rainforest vegetation
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In 2019, the United Nations Development Programme used the HDI to find out which countries are the most developed. The first place went to Norway, Switzerland came in second, and Ireland was third. The US tied the UK for the 15th spot.
Naturally, the HDI -- just like most similar metrics -- has been criticized. Mostly, for the alleged lack of consideration of technological development or contributions to human civilization. But it remains one of the most used measures worldwide to calculate how advanced countries are.
#4
Bike Ride In Berlin Kreuzberg ( ~1985 / 2018 )
Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
Was that... die Mauer? I remember from my very first German class: "die Mauer ist offen!". It was some years after but I think it's worth celebrating then, still now and in the future.
Lynn Morello 5 years ago
what a difference freedom makes, and to think TRump thinks his wall is a good thing.
elfin 5 years ago
Now all we need is to put a nice, tall one around the White House. For a few more months, anyway.
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Shopper East 5 years ago
Drunks who used to lean against that wall are still falling over to this day.
Boel Schenlaer 5 years ago
The wall is invisible now for us who never saw it when it were there!
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
Big improvement for sure... Berlin is a great city to visit- been there a half dozen times.
#5
Utrecht, Netherlands 1982 vs. 2020. They Converted The Highway To A Canal
Laugh or not 5 years ago
Can't edit my previous comment, so here: in this case, it was a canal, converted into a road (not covered), and converted back to a canal.
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Charo Soccodato-Magán Smit 5 years ago
Well, as being born in Utrecht, because of building a mall, they converted the original canal into a highway. About 40 years later they realized their mistake and converted it into the oroginal situation
Alan Dickens 5 years ago
They restored the highway to being a canal, it should say. It was a canal before it was a highway.
Coen Mobach 5 years ago
In Utrecht, the canal was a moat surrounding the old city. Then the highway was constructed on the dried canal grounds to give access to motorized traffic. In 2000 the plans changed and the canal should return. Wisdom comes with the years.
Frances Heijman 5 years ago
It was a canal, then in the 1960’s or 70’s they turned it in a highway, only to undo this a few decades later. Talk of a waste of public funds...
#6
The Shambles In York (UK) Inspiration For Diagon Alley From Harry Potter. Late 1800s And Today
Mark 5 years ago
"J.K. Rowling, the world renowned author behind the Potter books, has now all but confirmed that Shambles wasn't the inspiration behind Diagon Alley in her novels."
Gabby D 5 years ago
Supposedly it's Gandy Street in Exeter, where she went to university
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Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
Been there. If you vust, make sure to search for cats on walls and roofs! (Decorations)
Sharon Hyatt 5 years ago
Progress . . .feels like it should be in Europe somewhere.... I'd love to experience it. !
#7
Bishan Park, 30 Years Apart. Top Pic, 1988. Bottom Pic, 2020
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
All cities need more green spaces... good for people's physical and mental health.
Death Metal Kitty 5 years ago
Many people don't realise that there're lot of parks & greenery in the housing estates of Singapore. It's not all buildings and concrete.
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World War I Trenches
Sue Hazlewood 5 years ago
There are still soldiers and machines buried there
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The earth remembers the atrocities that happened there... so many lives lost.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Imagine these trenches planted with shrubs that flower. One plant each for the estimated number of lives lost there. What a tribute that would be; better than the hundreds of fake poppies sold every year.
Scyth 5 years ago (edited)
Most likely in north eastern France. Edit: you're right, I just confused east and west.
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#9
Moscow Pictures 20 Years Apart
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
the oligarchy now has more power. If you read the history of architecture you will see that humans build highest what they value most: right now it's money.
Daria B 5 years ago
Interesting point, but not necessarily true for everything. It depends a lot on architectural knowledge, technology and trends as well.
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Mel Schmidt 5 years ago
I agree Norma. But what is really bad is to see your home town that you grew up in, changed so much you barely know the place anymore. Old digs gone, like places you hung out in, Favorite places to eat, gone.... There are pros' and cons' I guess for going forward in time.
eddy edward 5 years ago
That building (Moscow University main building), built in 1953, was the tallest in Europe until 1997!
Katya Myers 5 years ago
That is not Moscow University. That is hotel Ukraine. 1 of 7 sisters
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Wendy Newhouse 5 years ago
WoW ... twenty years is not really that long ago .... that's a whole lot of inner city development!
#10
The Flatiron Building, New York (1917 And 2012)
Michelle Line 5 years ago
I'm sorry, but it looks like you have to walk sideways to get down a hallway.
NanZ 5 years ago
Why would they make it that way and why hasn't it been blown over by the wind? I know, stupid questions but I don't know how they could even build something like that. There's the front and the back and nothing in between.
Thomas Register 5 years ago
The pictures are misleading. The building is, as Mme de Poppadom notes, a triangle. The closest corner is the point of the triangle, and the narrowest part of the building.
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
I guess NY doesn't get hit by hurricanes as surely this building could been taken down by one strong enough.
Mme de Poppadom 5 years ago
You don't need a hurricane to get strong winds: the location of this building and its shape cause its own high-speed vortices to form.
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Atomic Bomb Dome - 75 Years Later
ProductofNZ 5 years ago
They left it largely untouched. There is still masonry debris surrounding the building. It is theorized that the atom bomb detonated above this building as the walls were not blown out by a horizontal blast wave but rather a vertical force that caved in the roof.
Steve Haigh 5 years ago (edited)
The epicentre of the blast is about 2 streets over and has a plaque on the wall marking exactly where the bomb detonated (well, below it since it detonated in the air). The Atomic Bomb dome lies within the cone radius of this but it isn't directly underneath the detonation location. Source: Been there and stood at the epicentre plaque
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I am glad they left something. Humans have a tendency to forget things if not reminded.
TheIsleOfSkye 5 years ago
I think it's amazing that councils and people leave certain things as they are. A little part of history left untouched
Lenka Smetanová 5 years ago
Well.. this building was designed by czech architect.... Those days we rock across the world
Boel Schenlaer 5 years ago
I have never Seen anything like this building before. Really makes me realize a lot!
David Curtis 5 years ago
My mother visited that church in 1948 and bought a tile from a priest. He wrote a message on it. I have it still.
Stephen Richards 5 years ago
It was never a church, it was Hiroshima’s Industrial promotion Hall.
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Azure Adams 5 years ago
Its a very reverent park now and the peace museum is absolutely worth seeing
#12
The Banyan Tree In Maui. Top Photo Taken By My Grandfather While He Was Stationed There During Wwii. Bottom I Took Without Knowing His Photo Existed
Ejm Rellom 5 years ago
Is it the same tree in both photos? What happened to the trunk. I didn’t think the trunk would get shorter s the tree aged.
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
So that is what a Banyan Tree looks like! (Have come across a number of Thai restaurants in the UK with Banyan link in their names)
Anne Bidstrup 5 years ago
I adore that tree. Have had many a drink under it over the years!
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The Changing Face Of St Bartholomew-The-Great's Gatehouse In Smithfield, Which Was Built In 1595 And Some Point Bricked Over. It Was Bombed During A Ww1 Zeppelin Raid Knocking Off Some Bricks Revealing Its Tudor Half-Timbered Facade. It Was Restored To How It Looks Today. 1916 vs. Now
MrTree1779 5 years ago
I've always loved timber framing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
Here's some interesting history. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/St-Bartholomews-Gatehouse/
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#14
My Hometown, Approx 100 Years Ago vs. My Pic From Last Week.... Not So Much Has Changed...
Louloubelle 5 years ago
Weird when you think that roads in cities were dirt then. I realize that if I think about it, of course they were, but it's just difficult to look at with 21st century eyes and wrap your head around the actuality of seeing it.
Gin 5 years ago
They weren't dirt, they were cobblestoned. We still have 200+ year old cobblestoned streets in the old town of my city. If the street needs renovations, the stones are dug up, the street leveled, and the same stones are placed tightly again. Sometimes a new asphalt is placed on top of the cobbled street (not in old town, obviously), because the cobblestones make a really tought base.
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Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago (edited)
I do wish city planners had put more emphasis on public transport and put in more tram lines... would definitely be an improvement in many city centers.
#15
My Great Grandfather And I Trained At The Same Location, Exactly 100 Years Apart. He Left For France Shortly After This Was Taken In 1917
fuggnuggins 5 years ago
Nearly 8 billion people alive at any moment, it's bound to happen many times daily.
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How do we know it's the same place, if all we can see is (a completely different) vehicle?
Marnie 5 years ago
The posture of the grandfather reminds me of a photo I ran across of my Dad. He was leaning like that on a plane when he was a young man. I asked him about it and he said it was after he got his pilot's license while training for WWII. I was maybe 30 and had NO IDEA that he had been a pilot! (That cool stance must have been common back then :-)
Simone Caruso 5 years ago
I could post a picture next to a car and say "oh look....even me and your grandpa took a pic on the same place. Which would be weird, since I am Italian...
#16
Singapore 2000 vs. Now
Nathan Girard 5 years ago
Some of the buildings on the right. It's tough to tell because the two photos are at pretty different angles
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Death Metal Kitty 5 years ago
This area has been undergoing intensive development over the last 10-15 years, so it's no surprise really.
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What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
Those buildings on the bottom left (second picture) look like the eyes of a fly...
Tired-Panda 5 years ago
Haha my first thought exactly. I wonder why they decided to make them look like that. I can't complain though as London, England two fairly new skyscrapers that have become colloquially known as the "gherkin" and the "walkie talkie" due to their shapes!
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Dre Mosley 5 years ago
Singapore is a stunning sight to behold. I recommend going there to see it if you can.
Draga Millani 5 years ago
Those metal building bottom left look like noodle strainers, I swear
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
Yes! I thought they looked liked upside colanders too!
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PurpleUnicorn 5 years ago
Pictures taken from different angles make it more difficult to compare
Mara Adams 5 years ago
Why is the pic from 2000 in black and white? And why is it so grainy? Maybe it's just the gen Z in me, but I thought there were better cameras back then.
Linda Geale 5 years ago
I was there in 1999. Worked in the Suntec for 16 days. Was nothing like the bottom photo. I would love to go again now.
#17
1920 / 2020 . San Francisco, Ca
Maria Vasilieva 5 years ago
I have a whole book "then and now" about SanFrancisco ... the city went through several fires, earthquakes, and boom of Silicon Valley and ... it still keeps a lot of Victorian charm mixed with hipster style graffiti. It's so different, I love SF
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
I was born there and I remember a lot of these cool neighborhoods.
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One of the few places in the United States I would be keen to visit... along with New Orleans and Seattle.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
1919 Franklin Series 9 Touring Car, only 25hp, but plenty of torque for SF. I'd rather drive the pre-1984 240 :)
#18
Early Los Angeles Compared To 2001
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
Try NOT to find 10,000 differences in these two photos.
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Chris Lewis 5 years ago
Lol, I thought the top photo was 2001 and the bottom was current, my mind was having some trouble there
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Early LA looks like a bad diorama, with buildings randomly plunked around.
#19
The Former Island Of Urk - The Netherlands 1930 vs. 2020
ProductofNZ 5 years ago
History: A Dike was added in 1939 and later, land reclamation took place. No more Island of Urk.
Peet 5 years ago
In The Netherlands we say 'I live in... Amsterdam... Rotterdam...' etc. Like in English. But 'Urk' is the only place where we say 'They live ON Urk' or 'On Urk lives the largest population of fishermen...'. It still refers to the time Urk was an island.
2WheelTravlr 5 years ago
It's really neat how you can still see the outline of the original island in the road design.
Coen Mobach 5 years ago
The people of Urk are still considered and still behave like islanders.
#20
From Fascism To Kebabs, Durham 1934 vs. 2020
#21
Buckhurst Hill Station (London Underground Station) - (1875 - 2020)
Sharon Hyatt 5 years ago
Great..... but the chimneys have been chopped to half their height . . . . .
Kate Storey 5 years ago
I've been to this station many times! It's around the corner from my grandmothers house!
#22
University Of Montana ~150 Years Apart
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago (edited)
Europeans trading useless goods for land and outright appropriation of native land: "After the United States became independent, it enacted legislation to regulate trading with the Indians/Native Americans, under the Trade and Intercourse Act, first passed on July 22, 1790. ... The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced tribes such as the Cherokee and the Choctaw to move out of their homelands." [I think the "intercourse" part of the act's name is apt as the natives were mostly buggered!]
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Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
Built at the bottom of what was a huge glacial lake, that's why there are striations on the hillside: the lapping of waters. The Missoula flood rushed to the see 30-50 or more times over several thousand years. This is an area of fascinating geology.
Mme de Poppadom 5 years ago
Probably down to the quad, then after some Frolf, to their next class.
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Norart norart 5 years ago
I'd like to know of an example of any cilvilization that came into being on virgin ground previously untouched by humans? Every European country participated in the slave trade. Slavic countries? 'slav' means slave. You are all suspiciously critical of the US while not willing to look at the rest of the worlds reality of displacement, oppression and slavery, historically and to this very day.
Lynn Morello 5 years ago
Big Difference, It is a shame they dispossessed the Native American Indians of their lands.
#23
Dubai Marina (2000 - 2020)
John Smith 5 years ago
In 40 years it'll be empty again. This is like if you built New York City on the site of gold mine, not considering that the gold will run out.
Bonnie Edwards 5 years ago
I think its fantastic. From what I've been told, The reigning family decided to build a city to draw people to their desert country. They chose a deserted area and used income from selling oil to build everything. I think taxes were voluntary up until recently. As far as utilities goes, I believe most buildings are coated in solar panels, and they drink desalinated water.
B-b-bird 5 years ago
p.s. there were no compulsory taxes till 2018. From 2018 they introduced 5% tax on items. There was never tax on salary and till now there is non. Salary that you have earned - it is fully yours (thank you very much 🕺)
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#24
The Trams They Are Changing ( 1990 / 2018 )
Lydia Coy 5 years ago
Im in year 9 (9th grade i think) and last year we were supposed to go to Berlin but stupid covid
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F. H. 5 years ago
In other German towns they do, too. Often they bought just a few of the new ones, so you can see both types.
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SoozeeQ 5 years ago (edited)
@LuckyL and @Mumof1. In the USA, their school year finishes at the start of Summer (June/July) and starts up again in August. I'm from Australia and as far I'm aware most (if not all) of the rest of the world uses a calendar year for the school year. So, even though Lydia said her planned trip to Berlin was *last year*, she meant the previous school year (ie Year 8), rather than 2019. It makes sense in a way, so that they can enjoy the Summer break, and for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, our Summer is December/February, so our school breaks tie up nicely with the calendar year.
Vincent Jay 5 years ago
Now, I feel old. I retired from the Navy in 1990. It doesn't seem like it's long ago, but here we have 1990 vs. today. Now, I feel old. .
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
I enjoy using the public transit in Berlin when I visit... very efficient.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
If it isn't broken, don't fix it! And if it is, fix it! There's no need to replace something adequate.
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1820 Industrial St, Los Angeles
NMN 5 years ago (edited)
So... that pic is not from 1820... nor the building in the back. More like some decades ago maybe?
Sarkis Vartanian 5 years ago
its 1820 Industrial st. La Ca 90021. My old restaurant The Daily Dose... It was a very special place. We converted the old Alley to one of the coolest spots in LA. Daily-Dose...4e0b9f.jpg 
Nicole Thompson 5 years ago
This is the address, 1820. And the before pic was maybe 40 years ago.
Sczoo 5 years ago
Look up that address on Google maps. Gritty and junk everywhere. Not sure what is going on with this post
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Junk everywhere? You mean a handful of patio umbrellas? It's actually surprisingly clean. The photo is of the back side of 1820 Industrial, here's the view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/1820+Industrial+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90021/@34.0353719,-118.2344967,3a,53.6y,69.07h,88.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM5K23o9iXt4KT5XMr9SKOw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2c623ebcff7bb:0xdc40f24240c3f3d7!8m2!3d34.0355987!4d-118.2337486
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John Otruba 5 years ago
the locomotive is most certainly 20th century not 19th ...the difference is dramatic without falsity!!
#26
I Just Made This To Show Just How Much Melbourne's Skyline Has Grown In 20 Years...
Bob Belcher 5 years ago
No worries. In the next 20 years the world's population will begin to decline. Poorer countries will still have positive birthrates as more modern countries will see there birthrates fall so low they can't replace the elderly that's are passing away. It's already happening in Japan and soon to happen in Spain and Italy. Some countries are even giving bonuses to families with more kids. This is one reason China lifted it's one child ban. You think they want to conquer the world through wars? No, just do what the British did, breed with the natives until everyone looks like you. Frankly, I don't care but it will be interesting to see what the world looks like in 50 years.
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#27
Dresden In Ww2 vs. Dresden Now
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Wow, the statue sure has taken a beating. Additional WWII bombing after picture taken, or more recent acid rain-type pollution??
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
And that statue has stood witness... over human's capacity for destruction and recuperation I'm sure the city that was there before was much more attractive than what followed in the aftermath of the allied bombings.
Gloria Lucraft 5 years ago
Yes so was Coventry that the Germans decimated five years before , Goebbels created a new word for destruction , coventried , help end the 2nd WW
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#28
The Development Of This City In Georgia
CORLEONE 5 years ago
Just want to clear this out; It is the city of Batumi, Georgia. NOT the Georgia of USA that is dirtyyyy Georgia, a country at the intersection of Europe and Asia, is a former Soviet republic that’s home to Caucasus Mountain villages and Black Sea beaches.
Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
Me looking at the pictures: 'Where's that huge building in the bottom pic? Did they tear it down? Wait. What a tiny thing...'
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
WOW... sure is a change in scale! That first building is dwarfed by the development around it. I like the blue glass...
Ms Forty Seven 5 years ago (edited)
The one-time giant now lives in the shadow of her sisters. There is a metaphor in here somewhere...
Aybike Avşar 5 years ago
Are we really considering this as "development"? I'm really doubtful... :/
#29
Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, USA
Michelle Line 5 years ago
According to Wiki: "In 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce began a contract with the City of Los Angeles Parks Department to repair and rebuild the sign. The contract stipulated that "LAND" be removed to spell "Hollywood" and reflect the district, not the "Hollywoodland" housing development."
Mimi777 5 years ago
Thank u for that! I was just about to google why they took it off.
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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
I'm surprised they haven't built houses all over that mountain side!!!
#30
Subang Jaya, Selangor. 44 Years Apart
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
the damage it does to nature in name of development. No body ever think about eco-friendly alternatives until it's too late. No problem if built fewer buildings and established greenery . It is such a wasted opportunity. There could be a large area of lush green . But noooo .Places like California and Australia have burned due to contribution by all over the world. And still only wildlife nd plantlife suffers largely. They have bleed the earth. Humans will pay with their burning and blood. Earth demends your head . Die disgusting selfish people . Suffer horribly
Redfox 4 years ago
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot....song going through my head when I see this kind of over-development. Less infant mortality, longer lives, better medical for most people's countries means more people who need somewhere to live end up destroying the very thing they crave - freedom of personal space and nature.
#31
Nuremberg, Germany 1936 vs. 2020
Ryan Wilkins 5 years ago
Looks like Donald Trump and his toothless cult followers in the top image.
Scyth 5 years ago
Don't compare Adolf Hitler with Trump. And make sure to not make fun of Hitler, as that is the same as insulting the victims of ww2 and the holocaust.
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260-268 Elizabeth Street New York Tenement Building A Century Apart. The Life Stories That Building Holds!
#33
Glittertind, Norway (1902 vs. 2020)
#34
Building A Streetcar System In 1911 That No Longer Exists Today - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
LOttawa 5 years ago
That would be Alberta with it stampede, rodeos, oil etc 🙂.
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Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
I might be wrong - but I believe that might be native American name.
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#35
Taal Volcano, Philippines. Before And After The Eruption
Sarah Cleaver 5 years ago
I missed this one completely. Think that's definitely another one for 2020 bingo.
#36
Growing Up We Could See Farmland For Miles. Now We Look Out At A Neighborhood Staring Right Back At Us
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 5 years ago
The neighborhood I grew up in, in the mid-80s, is the same way. They were already beginning development when we moved out in the late 90s. It IS sad.
#37
Castro St, San Francisco, Ca. 1940s And Now. Pics From Cable Car Museum Twitter.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
I don't know if it was horrible then, there was less traffic and more sky.
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North Side Of Chicago, Il. 1890 vs. 2020
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Is it the same location? Because that's the corner of Lawrence and Damen, near where I live. There's no way to know if that's the same place because there are no landmarks..... Many of the buildings in the area date from before WW1. In the 1880s and 90s, people were building summer cottages (cottage meaning large five and six bedroom houses) in the area to get out of the city in the summer.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
The Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association says the above picture is of Damen Avenue, looking North from Lawrence. https://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/rvw/id/1104
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True Blue 5 years ago
Mate one the top was taken in the 1890s and also there are no cars in the top photo
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San Diego, California: 1927 vs. 2020
Maria Vasilieva 5 years ago
The perspective /point of view is a bit different, that makes it feel like it's further
#40
Chicago 1930s vs. Chicago Modern Day, Specifically Looking A Tribune Tower
#41
Stolen Parts ( 1991 / 2018 )
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
I was gonna' say . . . it was there in the 1980's and a theft like that would be a global headline I'd missed!
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The Notorious Görlitzer Park In Berlin ( 1987 / 2019 )
#43
Boston 1904 /2010 (Current Photo By Me, Guessing At The Date)
#44
Inside The Death Zone ( 1990 / 2018 )
Stevie Rogers 5 years ago
near the berlin wall, they used to shoot people who tried to cross it
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Cecilie Kirchhoff 5 years ago
Pieces of the Berlin Wall was left standing around in Berlin as a reminder and memorial.
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1965/2017 - Water St, Lancaster Pennsylvania
sbj 5 years ago
Wow! Just how close those people and homes are to that train(or tram?) is a little bit concerning
Scyth 5 years ago
The trains moved at a very slow speed when being in urban spaces like this one.
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What do you think ?
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Hate to say it, but in some of the places where development has exploded, I find myself liking the older pictures better. Less claustrophobic. However, when progress means more trees, less dirt and decay, architectural treasures uncovered and restored to their full grandeur, and a park that has grown up beautifully, I prefer the newer pictures.
B 5 years ago
And that's "civilisation" for you right there: no more trees, no more space, too many people. Well done humans, well done.
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
@John L The indigenous tribes of the Amazon Basin are actually doing the planet a great favor by not wanting outsiders there. I don’t want outsiders there either. I want it left alone. The more slash and burn destruction that region suffers, the more the rest of the planet suffers. You think climate change is bad now? Burn down the Amazon Forest and see just how bad it can get.
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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
Very Very interesting. But, so many of the pictures were just sad. Overbuilt & ugly.
Florence Hastings 5 years ago
Most of the pictures about cities and towns make me sad. I see nothing to be prowd of only evidence of human folly and distain for the land.
MiniMaus 5 years ago
So for all those people who are commenting that the "today" picture shows ruined land... where would you put today's population?
Scyth 5 years ago
Does that mean you're sexually active right now? (Joking I know it's a bot)
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Hate to say it, but in some of the places where development has exploded, I find myself liking the older pictures better. Less claustrophobic. However, when progress means more trees, less dirt and decay, architectural treasures uncovered and restored to their full grandeur, and a park that has grown up beautifully, I prefer the newer pictures.
B 5 years ago
And that's "civilisation" for you right there: no more trees, no more space, too many people. Well done humans, well done.
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
@John L The indigenous tribes of the Amazon Basin are actually doing the planet a great favor by not wanting outsiders there. I don’t want outsiders there either. I want it left alone. The more slash and burn destruction that region suffers, the more the rest of the planet suffers. You think climate change is bad now? Burn down the Amazon Forest and see just how bad it can get.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
Very Very interesting. But, so many of the pictures were just sad. Overbuilt & ugly.
Florence Hastings 5 years ago
Most of the pictures about cities and towns make me sad. I see nothing to be prowd of only evidence of human folly and distain for the land.
MiniMaus 5 years ago
So for all those people who are commenting that the "today" picture shows ruined land... where would you put today's population?
Scyth 5 years ago
Does that mean you're sexually active right now? (Joking I know it's a bot)
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