Before and After

[livius drusus]

I before and after pictures. Every teevee show from hoarder cleanup to home sale staging to wardrobe updates to History Channel shitumentary could be replaced with a slideshow of before and after pics/footage and I would be in seventh heaven. All that talk and process crap is just filler, as far as I'm concerned.

So this is the thrad where my insatiable thirst for before and after scenes is slaked by y'all. Anything at all that has a before and after goes here. I'll start off with, surprise, surprise, a history-themed one. The before is Washington, D.C., taken from scaffolding on the Washington Monument by photographer H. W. Brown in November 1916. The after is Washington, D.C., taken from the observation deck of the Washington Monument by photographer Richard Schneider in January 1996.

[Sock Puppet]

I just got this from stupidgoogling, but it was a nice find. This is a case of real progress, i.e., urban renewal that actually made things better. From here, someone making the case for similar action in Seattle.

In 1989, the Loma Prieta Quake damaged San Francisco’s waterfront Embarcadero Freeway. Most politicians wanted a rebuild of the two-level structure, and the mayor at the time, Art Agnos, proposed a boulevard and a tunnel option. Twenty thousand signatures were collected to stop the demolition and the state refused to finance the tunnel option. Agnos scrapped the tunnel but went forward with the demolition anyway, and the unexpected happened.

San Franciscans found other ways to get to where they needed to go, and everyone now loves their highway-less waterfront. The Embarcadero has become a grand boulevard with beautiful squares and plazas, lined with trees and public art, and has had its historic streetcar brought back. The neighborhood has been massively revitalized.

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

From here, someone making the case for similar action in Seattle.

They have been talking about getting rid of that Alaskan Way viaduct since before the quake damaged it 10 years ago. I swear they do more "discussing" than "doing" in Seattle.

[curses]

but to be fair it's more like this now:

[curses]

OMGlivOMGlivOMGliv, lookit what I found!
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/mi...ial_photos.htm
Before and after to your heart's content.

[mickthinks]

nationalgeographic.com

[Vivisectus]

How come her nose looks different?

[The Lone Ranger]

Originally Posted by Vivisectus

How come her nose looks different?

When you reach maturity, your bones stop growing, but cartilage continues to grow, albeit at a reduced rate. Since most of the structure of the nose is determined by cartilage rather than bone, it's not unusual for someone's nose to noticably change shape as (s)he ages.

That might account for the difference in nose shape.


Cheers,

Michael

[Vivisectus]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

When you reach maturity, your bones stop growing, but cartilage continues to grow, albeit at a reduced rate. Since most of the structure of the nose is determined by cartilage rather than bone, it's not unusual for someone's nose to noticably change shape as (s)he ages.

That might account for the difference in nose shape.


Cheers,

Michael

That does NOT bode well for me. I better invest heavily in Cleenex.

[Ari]

Hunting for online versions of some excellent pre-golden gate park land study photos (they are up at the beach Chalet near the park) showing nothing but dunes. I ran into some awesome video of pre and post 1906 earthquake.

Trip Down Market Street Before Fire 1906 - Video
Trip Down Market Street After Fire - Video

Not as good as what I was searching for.
Just planted tree's in the park, 1880

Modern,

[LadyShea]

Hurricane Ivan - Coastal Change Hazards: Hurricanes and Extreme Storms



Breach of a barrier island from Hurricane Ivan

[Demimonde]

I was looking for my city's pics, but instead found something else entirely.

First US Full Face Translplant

[Kyuss Apollo]

In a search for befores and afters of Providence (which has undergone a significant transformation/gentrification in the last 20 years or so, a process dubbed the "Providence Renaissance" by city boosters), I came across this in Google books--best before and after is on page 3. Just flipping through there's a couple of other interesting comparisons in the part of the book "not omitted."

[livius drusus]

Are those page 3 pictures taken from the same vantage point? I can't get my bearings at all. Everything looks different.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Are those page 3 pictures taken from the same vantage point? I can't get my bearings at all. Everything looks different.

It is really different, but it's nearly the same vantage point -- the top picture is from a bit higher/further away, but those two buildings running roughly 130-140 degrees in the lower left of the bottom picture are the same buildings running at that same angle but part of that set of three buildings in the center bottom in the top picture. Also, it looks like the bridge at the very top in both pictures is the same.

Everything else though has been changed. If I were to guess, the top picture was from the late 60's early 70s, right after they finished running I-95 through the city. 95 is the massive single bridge in the top photo, which in the bottom is surrounded by a web of smaller, more graceful on and off ramps.

In the early 70s into the 80s, you really didn't want to get off the highway there...or even go to Providence to begin with.

[mulebear]

Cherokee Motel - 310 Ponce de Leon Ave NE

I LOLed when I saw the Atlanta Eagle in the bottom picture.

[livius drusus]

Oh hey I know that vacant lot next to the halfway house very well. I was waiting for the 2 on that corner once with a professional lady just coming off her shift when we busted a dude jerking off in the bushes. She kicked his ass but good. Do not fuck with a Ponce de Leon hooker unless you've paid up front, mans.

[mulebear]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Oh hey I know that vacant lot next to the halfway house very well. I was waiting for the 2 on that corner once with a professional lady just coming off her shift when we busted a dude jerking off in the bushes. She kicked his ass but good. Do not fuck with a Ponce de Leon hooker unless you've paid up front, mans.

What? No before and after shot?

[Vivisectus]

reason to be cheerful - part 3

Not for the feint of eyeball

[erimir]

Ooh, if you reverse the images, it looks like most of them just got an amazing makeover!

[Qingdai]

Yeah, welcome to my home town. Thanks Viv.

[Dingfod]

Joplin, MO before and after:


And others.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Main Street, Springfield MA before and after tornadoes

[Vivisectus]

OMG! The tornado took springfield from the 1930's into the present!

[curses]

Seriously, though, that's some significant damage.