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Then and Now: The Time Portals Into a World War II

August 3, 2010 by admin  
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Russian photographer Sergei Larenkov opens time portals into a World War II Ghost Dimension
Sergei has combined pictures from all over Europe that mix the ghosts of world war II’s past with the present taken from the same angle of view.

The technique is called perspective-matching photography which consists of precisely matching the points-of-view of vintage and modern photographs and exploring what happens where they merge.link



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How it Used to Look Like 100 Years Ago [ Reloaded ]

September 16, 2009 by admin  
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An interesting comparison of different places around 100 years ago and its present day.

Redcliffe


Redcliffe Wharf (well Bathurst on the right and Mud Dock/The Grove on the left) in Bristol’s Floating Harbour.
Top: 1787
Middle: early 1940s
Bottom: August 2009
St Mary Redcliffe in the background was built between 1200 and the early 1400s, the orginal spire being lost in 1446 due to a lightening strike. The ‘new’ spire was added in 1872.
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The Redpath Museum


The Redpath museum (1882-2009)and the presbyterian college on the left.The 1871 wing of the Presbyterian college was torn down in 1963 and replaced by a concrete tower named : Leacock building.
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Hotel Vancouver


This is Vancouver’s 3rd Hotel Vancouver and is still looking great today. It was completed 10 years prior to the old picture being taken after sitting half-complete for 11 years, due to the depression. Many towers have popped up around the old hotel, which is still one of Vancouver’s most prestigious hotels, including Shangri-la in the background to the right. Hotel Vancouver is located on a huge piece of property downtown which fronts on Georgia, Hornby and Burrard Streets.
This is looking west down Georgia Street.
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Bristol High Street


Bristol High Street – 1890s and 2009. Formally the bustling centre of the city… now one of the quietest High Streets in the country. The buildings on the right of the old image were destroyed in the blitz (November 1940). Replacement buildings constructed post-war now stand derelict. Redevelopment proposals for something more fitting (and lively) which will hopefully bring more people into this bit of town whilst making more of the areas history are currently being discussed.
The Samuel Morley statue in the old image stood here between 1887 and 1921.
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Kilburn High Road Station


Kilburn High Road Station
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Old Mission Police Station


The Old Mission Police Station San Francisco, CA Source: link

17th and Van Ness


17th and Van Ness 1906/2008
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2300 Block of Main Street


2300 Block of Main Street Good to see most of the buildings in the old picture still remain, although some have gone through questionable renovations.
There’s no more parking allowed on this part of Main and the cars sure aren’t as cool!

Austin Road


Tsim Sha Tsui - Austin Road. Hong Kong
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Pender St. at Carrall St


Pender St. at Carrall St.Two fabulous buildings in Chinatown are pictured here in both photos but the Chinese Freemasons Building on the left was restored a little while back while the other was not. But it still has many details intact, like the cornice for instance. The Freemasons building is only about 4 years old in the top photo while the red building was built in 1902
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Manhattan 400 years ago

May 4, 2009 by admin  
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See views of Manhattan side-by-side with a computer recreation of what it looked like before it became a city
The images were created for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mannahatta Project, which launched April 20 and includes a book, museum exhibition, and Web site. The yearlong celebration of Manhattan’s natural history aims to recreate the island as it appeared 400 years ago, on the day English explorer Henry Hudson arrived in 1609.

When Henry Hudson and a small crew of Dutch and English sailors rode the flood tide up a great estuarine river on the North American continent on September 12, 1609, they were looking for a passage to Oriental riches.


Instead, they found something much more valuable. Mannahatta’s natural wealth—the old growth forests, stately wetlands, rolling hills, abundant wildlife, people who lived in tune with nature—was prodigious and deep.

The local people called the island “Mannahatta,” which may have meant “island of many hills.” It would later be known as Manhattan and would become as densely filled with people and avenues as it once teemed with trees and streams.


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