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Point Fermin lighthouse in Los Angeles built in 1874


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Los Angeles, looking southwest from the observation deck of City Hall...

1962:

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A few years ago I found a cool old aerial photograph of Burbank, CA in 1928 the city we live next to, I created a gif picture today to show the change by overlaying matching and comparing landmarks. Note the Burbank airport is not around then, but the Valhalla Cemetery (lower left) was there. Almost 95% barren/farm land then, now almost 100% ( Read more... )

In this old post, I told the story of my mother having had her picture taken by a street photographer somewhere in downtown Los Angeles in 1936, when she was a 19-year-old secretarial student at Woodbury College. Some time later, I finally identified the location of the picture as having been the 900 block of South BroadwayThereafter, I decided ( Read more... )

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Then and Now Pics

Frescati is an old white wooden cottage in the grounds of Willow Court. Willow Court is an abandoned mental asylum which was once the largest in the southern hempishere.
Frescati was built by Colonial Secretary J. Bennett in 1843. Dr Meyer brought Frescati after Bennett and surprisingly the house and all it affects was put on the ( Read more... )

Not my photos, but a nice gallery of Havana, Cuba, with before Castro photos (then), and now ( Read more... )

in the late 1960s, my parents bought a house in the palmer woods neighborhood of detroit. while sections like boston-edison and indian village started their lives as upscale, ritzy neighborhoods back in the very early part of the 20th century and then fell with the demise of the rest of the city, palmer woods somehow managed to not only keep its ( Read more... )

First we start with this building on the campus I work at:

1970:

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