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06-02-2011, 02:30 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Before and After
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.
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Anastasia Beaverhausen (06-02-2011), chunksmediocrites (06-03-2011), Crumb (06-02-2011), curses (06-02-2011), Demimonde (06-02-2011), Kael (06-02-2011), Kyuss Apollo (06-03-2011), LadyShea (06-02-2011), Sock Puppet (06-02-2011), Stormlight (06-03-2011), viscousmemories (06-05-2011), vremya (06-02-2011), Ymir's blood (06-03-2011)
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06-02-2011, 03:41 PM
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Just keep m'nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Re: Before and After
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.
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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.
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06-02-2011, 04:23 PM
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Coffee, tea, anti-Nazi
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Female
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Re: Before and After
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06-02-2011, 05:18 PM
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Mr. Condescending Dick Nose
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Augsburg
Gender: Male
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Re: Before and After
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06-02-2011, 05:31 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
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Re: Before and After
How come her nose looks different?
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06-02-2011, 06:06 PM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Here
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Re: Before and After
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06-02-2011, 07:43 PM
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Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
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Re: Before and After
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Originally Posted by Vivisectus
How come her nose looks different?
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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
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06-02-2011, 07:50 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Re: Before and After
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivisectus
How come her nose looks different?
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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
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That does NOT bode well for me. I better invest heavily in Cleenex.
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06-02-2011, 08:06 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Bay Area
Gender: Male
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Re: Before and After
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,
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06-02-2011, 10:43 PM
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an angry unicorn or a non-murdering leprechaun
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Edge of Society
Gender: Female
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Re: Before and After
I was looking for my city's pics, but instead found something else entirely.
First US Full Face Translplant
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06-03-2011, 01:51 AM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: location, location
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Re: Before and After
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."
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06-03-2011, 02:18 AM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Before and After
Are those page 3 pictures taken from the same vantage point? I can't get my bearings at all. Everything looks different.
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06-03-2011, 04:40 AM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: location, location
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Re: Before and After
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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.
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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.
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06-03-2011, 06:20 AM
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Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Georgia
Gender: Male
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Re: Before and After
Cherokee Motel - 310 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
I LOLed when I saw the Atlanta Eagle in the bottom picture.
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06-03-2011, 07:02 AM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Before and After
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.
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06-03-2011, 01:39 PM
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Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Georgia
Gender: Male
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Re: Before and After
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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.
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What? No before and after shot?
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06-03-2011, 02:04 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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06-03-2011, 07:41 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
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Re: Before and After
Ooh, if you reverse the images, it looks like most of them just got an amazing makeover!
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06-05-2011, 12:15 AM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Northwest
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Re: Before and After
Yeah, welcome to my home town. Thanks Viv.
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06-05-2011, 09:34 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Before and After
Joplin, MO before and after:
And others.
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06-05-2011, 04:27 PM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: location, location
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Re: Before and After
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06-05-2011, 05:36 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
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Re: Before and After
OMG! The tornado took springfield from the 1930's into the present!
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06-05-2011, 07:36 PM
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Coffee, tea, anti-Nazi
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Female
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Re: Before and After
Seriously, though, that's some significant damage.
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06-06-2011, 11:16 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Before and After
I blogged this pair of pictures ages ago, and it just occurred to me they belong itt. They're aerial shots taken from biplanes of the Belgium town of Passchendaele. The first is from 1916, the second from November 1917, after the 3rd battle of Ypres.
That's the result of four months (between July 31st and November 30th, 1917) of constant shelling. An estimated three to four hundred thousands British troops died assailing the German position, and four hundred thousand German troops died defending it. The Allies gained five miles of ground in the effort; the Germans retook them five months later.
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