3344 best r/oldphotosinreallife images on Pholder | Times Square on VJ Day 1945, and my parents in 2018. I just rediscovered this photo I took after my Dad has since passed, so happy I found it!

Times Square on VJ Day 1945, and my parents in 2018. I just rediscovered this photo I took after my Dad has since passed, so happy I found it!

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Prizren, Kosovo | 1913 - 2022

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Lake Washington Blvd. Seattle, WA 1909/2019

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East 170th Street and Walton Avenue in The Bronx (1937 vs. 2021)

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Bordeaux, France. This was considered progress in the 1960s.

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St. John's Church, Kolkata, India. Built 1787. Photos from 1788, 1865 and 2018.

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Roman theatre of Cartagena (Province of Murcia, Spain) 1991 vs 2021

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Chicago's Near West Side before and after the construction of the Eisenhower Expressway and UIC

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Front road Old Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC 1878 and yesterday May 20, 2022. Taken from the sandhill(iidjaaw) looking northwest at what is now the seawall.

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The Roman Tetrapylon of Aphrodisias (Turkey) 1958-2022

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Michigan Ave and the Art Institute, Chicago IL, USA. 1929 vs 2023

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The Klan protesting a Beatles concert in DC 1966. And today.

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I came across this painting from 1830 that looks an awful lot like one of my vacation photos.

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Outside Bruce Lee's home where he lived till his death in 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong and a photo in the same location I took today (14th August, 2021)

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South-west corner of Mitre Square, London. Where Catherine Eddowes’ mutilated body was found after being murdered by Jack the Ripper in 1888. Top photo circa 1900, bottom photo 2021.

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Hayden geological survey party moving along Yellowstone lake 1872 and now

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Trafalgar Public School, London, Canada - 1939 and Now

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I visited the location of Scotty’s apartment from Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”

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Second Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois. 1911 postcard / 2022 photo.

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Chorley Park in Toronto

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Brickell (Miami) 1980’s and 2021

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Freiburg, Baden (Germany) 1938 - 1944 - 1953 - today

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Scarborough, U.K. 1873 and present day.

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Dimitsana, Greece 1923/2020. Walking with ghosts.

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Railroad Bridge adapted to Pedestrian in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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View along the walls of Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon, South Korea. 1957 and 2017.

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Alexanderplatz Station, Berlin in 1910 and 2018

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Catskill Mountain House NY 1905&present

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Hangzhou's Gongchen Bridge, built in the Ming (1631), 1860 vs early 1900s vs now

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A bank in Montevideo, Uruguay. 1939 - now.

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A.K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands CA ~1899 (early photochrom print) and now 😃

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Thousand Oaks CA, 1960 and present day

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I hope it qualifies

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Plymouth Courthouse, Montserrat, before and after 1997 volcano eruptions leaving 80% of the capital city covered in 1.4m(4.6ft) of ash. (top unknown date, bottom 2016)

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Princes St, Edinburgh, Scotland. (1950s/2020s)

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Today is German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit). The Alexanderplatz demonstration was one of the largest demonstrations in East German history and a milestone of the peaceful revolution that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification.

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Restoration at James Scott's abandoned Detroit mansion. This shows that no matter how missing a structure is, it can be saved.

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El Paso - same false-front roofline survives -1882 & 2022

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Here’s A Wonderful 1915 Pasadena Craftsmen Located In Bunglsow Heaven That I Had The Pleasure Of Purchasing And Restoring A Few Years Back. Although This House Was Only 950 Sqft It Took Nearly 2 Years To Complete The Renovations Due To Working With The Pasadena Historical Society And City Permitting

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What War has done to Syria. Photos 1970/2016

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Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort Temple constructed around 580 A.D Tamiladu,India (1895 and 2020)

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Pripyat, Ukraine.

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Chinatown, Philadelphia, 1924 vs. 2022

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Old Michigan Central Rail Station in Tillsonburg, Canada 1910 vs Now

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1951 Buick Estate Wagons Models

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The Interior of Copenhagen Central Station, ~1910 postcard / 2022 photo

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The only surviving traffic tower in Berlin, which came into use in April 1956. A policeman, who watched traffic from above, changed the traffic lights in the intersection by the touch of a button. The tower became superfluous with the introduction of automatic traffic control 6 years later

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M7 Priest, 2nd Armored Division, at the intersection of Holgate Street and the Paris-Cherbourg Railway, Carentan, France. - 18 June 1944 VS Now

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The Downingtown Log House (built ~1700)

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The living room of The Cliffs, an 18th century home in Philadelphia that was destroyed by arson in 1986. Photos taken in 1932 and 2019.

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Titanic first class suite C-55 in 1912 vs 2005

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Edinburgh, Scotland

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter. The Neue Elbbrucke Bridge in Hamburg, Germany, was ruined in 1959 to add an additional lane.

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Same street, 1866 and 2012

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West Clare Railway, Ireland. 1953 vs 2023

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Airship over Bedford, England in 1929

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Warnemunde ~1928/~2020

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Chicago's Polish Downtown, 1917 postcard / 2022 photo

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Mont-St.-Michel, France, 1908 – 2016

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Cincinnati, Ohio circa 1935 and 2022

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337 W Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Calif

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Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the 1900s and 2021

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After 30 years, two brothers return to Chernobyl to find an old friend waiting for them.

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Random neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1933 and now.

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Peterhof then and now

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The Billups Neon Crossing Signal, an experimental railroad crossing in Grenada, MS that utilized neon lights and an air raid siren. It was never replicated anywhere else due to high costs and technical problems. (1940 vs. 2014)

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Street In Turkey | Last week & 17 hours ago

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Omonia Square in Athens, Greece in 1930 vs 2018

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Alcatraz Prison in 1940.

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Oxford Street, London - 1941 vs 2022

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Los Alamos Manhattan Project Main Gate

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Warsaw Old Town (Stare Miasto) after the war, and in 2019. My dad grew up in Warsaw and last year I visited Poland with him for the first time. He preloaded several images like the one he’s holding here onto his iPad to show me side by side as we walked around.

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Avallon, France: early 1900s to 2019

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They're coming to get you Barbara! (Night of the living Dead 1968)

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The New Cut, an artificial waterway created in Bristol Harbour, UK in the 1800's (now disused). The ship in the top picture (photographed in the 1890s) is the PS Marchioness, a paddle steamer that was eventually used in WW1 as a minesweeper in the English Channel.

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5th Century Shiva cave temple at Elephanta, India. Image from 1863 by Samuel Borne.

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John Street Roundhouse, Toronto, Canada - c. 1990 and Now

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The roadhouse set location from Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in the West

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