Olden day Pictures
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Monuments to a lost time.
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A picnic at the California Alligator Farm in Los Angeles, where visitors could freely interact with trained alligators from 1907 to 1953.
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California Alligator Farm — Finding Lost Angeles
Our latest LA in Memoriam takes a look at one of the rare features of Los Angeles where there is likely little love lost in its disappearance: the California Alligator Farm. This wacky, tacky, and downright dangerous tourist attraction opened in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in 1907 by partners “
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Counting from the left, it appears to me that the 3rd house is completely gone in 2019!
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That 3rd house was boarded up (to be torn down) in the first picture.
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The Vanishing Houses of Detroit: A Street View Story
How one Detroit resident is using Google Maps to chronicle the accelerating disappearance of some of that city’s neighborhoods.
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Yep, I saw those boards but didn't make the connection...That 3rd house was boarded up (to be torn down) in the first picture.
The Vanishing Houses of Detroit: A Street View Story
How one Detroit resident is using Google Maps to chronicle the accelerating disappearance of some of that city’s neighborhoods.
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Oceanslider
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Yep, the ancestors of those hard working short lived coal miners should pay up!!!
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My, how things have changed in this country, eh?
New York, Good Friday, 1956:
New York, Good Friday, 1956:
Parley
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A number of people have left their windows down. A different era than today for sure.
MikeLud1
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I remember in the 70s my uncle use to leave his car unlocked and key in it
Parley
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One more thing, there are orange groves around in that picture. They are all long gone.
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tigerwillow1
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^^^^ Reduces number of post-crash hospitalizations.