Above is a shot of Sixth and Main, in Los Angeles, looking south, as it appeared in 1918, and again almost 90 years later, as it appeared in 2007.
It’s from a fabulous Flikr pool of old/new juxtapositions just like this. I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff, and it’s kind of in the vein of the younger pictures blog I posted about earlier.
Although it’s been stripped out of the main gallery for being slightly offtopic, a subset of these juxtapositions includes people who are holding the old photo up to replace part of the new scenery — with an exact match making it look like a window through time has opened up in the middle of the shot. It’s a cool effect, like the woman on a bench, below. You can find more of those types here.
(props to vokoban and uwgbadmissions for the pics)
Grant Hamilton
3 Responses to “This city used to be younger”
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You know what would be even more awesome? Something like this, but with the person pictured also in the “new” area of the shot, in a different pose.
Imagine sitting across a table from your old self…
That would be really cool.
We could have something like this for Brandon, with gorgeous heritage buildings from our past juxtaposed with…umm….never mind.