Have you ever "google mapped" your past? (house, best, how much)
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Does anyone go onto google maps to check out their old stomping grounds?
I've visited my old home town(s) via google maps several times since moving away and love to see what has changed and what hasn't. It's the closest thing to actually being there that I've been able to get in the last few years.
Anybody else?
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Sure, actually often. If I click Zillow, it amazes me at how much more the old homes are worth now than what we paid back then, but also at how little they have changed when looking at Street View. What has changed very dramatically is the commercial areas of the cities, with older places I used to haunt being gone, and new strip malls or condos in their place.
Does anyone go onto google maps to check out their old stomping grounds?
I've visited my old home town(s) via google maps several times since moving away and love to see what has changed and what hasn't. It's the closest thing to actually being there that I've been able to get in the last few years.
Anybody else?
Yes I've done that and was amazed at how things have changed over the years. Not only the old places that I had lived in before but also where I'm at now seems the birds-eye view isn't up to date. The birds-eye view and the street view don't always match up the same. I guess they're out of date as well. I had one occurrence to actually "see" the google car in the neighborhood driving around. I followed it as best I could to see what it was doing and where it was going. However I never saw the "updated" view it took of the area months later when I went online.
I've tried. Google maps (street views) from the 50's and 60's would be worth their weight in gold.
I'm sure you've probably thought of this but I'll mention it in case you haven't;
Sometimes if you put the name of your town on "you tube movies" there will be videos or collages of photographs that people have put together and posted. You might recognize some pics from your town that was taken from the 50's and 60's. I know I saw some several sites that people had put together of my hometown with pics from the 20's up thru last year. Many of the pics even said what site or future site, the photo was taken and who was in the pic.
Also, The Arcadia Publishing Company has done small (approx 5" x 11" 100+ pages) books on many town in the u.s. called "The Image of America Series" Each book is specific to one town with lots of historic photographs and text about the regional history of the town. They may have done yours.
When I had Google Earth on my PC I had all my previous addresses bookmarked. However the 2007 tornado at Clovis, New Mexico pretty much destroyed the neighborhood where we lived in the 1970s. Our New Orleans area apartment looked about the same even after 37 years. At our old Maryland rancher home, about 32 to 38 years ago, what used to be a neighborhood street that ended with a house is now a through street and the end house has been removed. Thirty two years ago we were living in a far southwest area of Lubbock, Texas. Here 98th street was still unpaved and was at the very end of town.
Except for my neighbor killing my large tree in front, our current home at Albuquerque looks about the same after 20 years. Luckily Google doesn't have any interest in knowing the specific location of this Texas farm. If you know where the property is located, you can "zoom" down from the satellite but there are no street views along our very rural county road out here.
My old stomping grounds still look the same... The old yarn mill is gone along with the chemical plant.. that was taken down back in the early 70's.. The Hamburger joints.. the high school kids worked at is gone.. heard it burned down..
The 1870--1930 circa buildings still standing on main street.. the old movie theater 1890 -- burned in the 80's replaced by a corrugated metal box.. theater. 99.9% of the people I knew then are either in the ground or vaporized into society it was the 60's and many I knew went to Canada..
Just did mine and it shows a picture from 2013. Man, have things changed!!!!
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