Looking Into The Past . . .

[Chadeaux]

I belong to a Facebook group called "Ain't Dere (there) No More New Orleans" (ADNM for short).

Folks have been posting lots of pictures from decades ago of buildings and other things that ADNM. One member started putting a snap shot of an old building laid on a Google Earth image showing where it was. That got me started thinking and off I went.

With a bit of effort, I was able to come close to the point of view of the original photographer through Google Earth's Street View and began "mixing" the old pictures with new. I live too far from my home to go back and perfectly duplicate the shots, but see what you think.

This is the old Southern Railway Station that was closed in 1954 and (I believe) demolished in 1958 - I was one year old. Right click and select "View Image " to see pics full size.

The following picture is of the old Dryades Market. The facade at the entrance ADNM, and a few of the buildings in the image are gone. The pic used was about the same time as the beginning of WWII. Shortly after, the market was taken over by the Army (read confilcting stories about why).

The next one is Tulane Avenue looking East towards Loyola Avenue. I believe the pic was from the late 50's or (more likely) early 60's

Hope you enjoy them.

No idea why the pics are shrunk down ... by Tnet. See them full size in the editing window, but they're miniaturized here.

 

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[Peyton Manning]

hmmm, I see a lot of modern cars

 

[Chadeaux]

The pics have the old and new melded together. Some buildings are still there, so I work to make the lines match. For instance in the first pic, both buildings on either side of basin street are still there, only the train station is missing. Left as much of the old picture as possible --- thus the red car stopped behind the old black and white car.

 

[Chadeaux]

800 block of St. Mary Street, Cardiff England

 

[hvacker]

I have a book called "New Mexico Then and Now". The book will have a picture from long ago and the photographer will try to get to the exact spot and photograph it as it is today. They are printed next to each other. Old timers really like to see and remember the changes.
It's odd that when a commercial building is demolished in town it's hard to remember exactly what was there before.Others have told me the same thing.
In Albuquerque there was a rail station that was well known for the tribes selling their crafts there in the first half of the 1900's. Beautiful building. The city tore it down for a parking lot.
Years later they reconstructed it at a huge cost and of course it's not the same.