Date: August 1973 Location: Hicks Avenue and Northside Drive, Bennington, Vermont Source: University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program What do you see here?
This week’s piece on the Carrera Panamericana Lincoln brought up the dangers of racing on public roads, and no series in the history of motorsport better illustrated those perils than Group B Rally r...
Last grouping of photos of the unnamed Florida university sent to us by Dean Luchaco. The first appears to be the counterpart parking lot to the one in yesterday’s photos, while the two below appear ...
Locations for the previous two West Hartford posts based on photos from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us were fairly simple to determine based on buildings in the photos that remain standing to...
Here we thought we’d sufficiently scoured the Internet for traffic jam photos of yesteryear, but of course the Los Angeles area has an endless supply of traffic jams, so there’s still plenty more pho...
According to captions that follow this photo around the Internet, we’re in Ferndale – specifically just west of the intersection of Nine Mile and Woodward – sometime during the Fifties. And if we che...
Why, yes, we have seen this intersection before – several times, in fact, but none of them as early as 1965, when this photo of downtown Barre was taken, according to the Vermont Landscape Change pro...
Just up the street from our last look at West Hartford comes this batch of street scenes from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us, showing a stretch of businesses along Farmington Avenue just east...
Returning to the college parking lot photo series that Dean Luchaco sent us, we see just how bad the parking situation was, with not a spot left in this lot and with cars lining the street that conne...
Rarely do we get context on the carspotting photos we dig up. Sometimes we can make pretty good guesses, and sometimes we don’t have a clue, but today’s overview of the intersection of Van Nuys and V...
Seen this photo floating around the Internet for a while before we finally decided to dig up the backstory. According to HABU.org, the SR-71 seen in the photo – serial number 17958 – was retired in e...
We’ve seen a little of the Hartford suburbs in the series of photos Joe Sokola sent us already, but a big batch toward the end takes us out to West Hartford, specifically a stretch along Farmington A...
Whatever school’s parking lot we’re seeing in these photos that Dean Luchaco sent us, it sure was popular. There’s hardly a place to wedge another car in here, and students appear to be (respectfully...
The town of Montpelier seems a little less busy and less prosperous these days than when this postcard photo was taken sometime in the late Fifties. Indeed, a look at historical census records shows ...