Post historical photos of your local city.
I got a whole fucking collection of mine.
Cities
local power plant
view on one of the suburbs of the town
(I live in the suburb of the suburb)
and a laboratory of a local powder factory
pretty fucking cool man, do you recognise the 'gasthaus' or doesn't it exist anymore? how much has changed
This is what the russian rats did
i feel you my friend... lotsof cool things have been destroyed here in the 60's
today the town looks like this, the Gasthaus is still standing and still being used
the local power plant and powder factory were closed though and today the old industrial area in which they stood is being used mainly for small businesses or functional rooms that are used for example for large concerts
this is destroyed, along side this statue, the building in the centre and basicly everything in the 'vismarkt'
Mmmmm hamburger buffet.
engraving from 1650
doesn't look like the city has been dishonered that much, good to see
of course that is what you notice my american friend
this photo is an elephant from the zoo wich was used for agriculture during the first world war since all horses went to the front
I'll post some photochroms from other, larger towns
visit of Leopold II
SS volunteers
thats all some pretty amazing stuff
is there anything from old Rotterdam left standing after WW2?
This picture was taken near the end of the Argentine Golden Age.
Barely anything. Only about 27 buildings within the 900 year old city centre survived the bombing. That's barely comparable with the thousands of buildings that stood there before the war.
what was the argentine golden age?
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photo: visit of prince albert and princes Elisabeth. later best known as king Albert who leaded belgium in WW1
fuck man I'm sorry
was there no attempt to rebuild it? Dresden was almost completely rebuilt according to its pre-WW2 looks after the bombings
The period between 1900-1945s, where our GDP. At times it was higher than many european countries.
>During this time, the very rich traveled to Europe, especially to Paris where they painted the town red with their parties, their music and their beautiful women. It was the French, seeing how lavishly the argentines spent money, who coined the phrase "riche comme un argentin" or "as rich as an argentine".
Is this at the city hall of Antwerp?
Nothing has been reconstructed. The Dutch wanted to rebuild the city as soon as possible to prevent the Germans doing it. And the reconstruction of old buildings is still not really accepted in the Netherlands. Moreover, it's really hard to reconstruct 16th, 17th and 18th century Dutch buildings without making them look like brand new.
But maybe some of the Jugendstil buildings could be reconstructed in future.
kinda looked "european", now not very
that's really sad
>The Dutch wanted to rebuild the city as soon as possible to prevent the Germans doing it.#
during the war already you mean?
I barely notice any difference
This was made when Koteks was still new.
Edmonton, Alberta (city centre)
1910s
Same street, around the 1930s/40s according to the cars
Once again, same street, this time sometime in the 60s
And here's a modern picture of the street.
Yes, we had a right level of autonomy to reconstruct our city ourselves. The Dutch didn't want to give the Germans the opportunity to make a plan, because they thought it would contaminate the city with German influence forever. This was the plan that was made just after the bombing which determines the structure of the city until today. Underneath the colored parts you might notice the old structure of the city.
moscow was a little village and not even a capital back then
yeah its the city hall
same view in 1959
its the nearest city to me, but i actually come from a different kraj in which there are no cities and is rural even today in modern age
Are German cities prepared to demolish buildings from the "Wiederaufbau" to reconstruct prewar buildings because those are given a "holy" status here.
you can hardly recognize it, the ambient, the people, landscape, modernization really ruined the world in my opinion
southern station, where now the new department of justice is
Bit of a shame
On the one hand it's sad you left the Kingdom, but on the other hand those majestic buildings could only have been build under Belgian rule. We should be proud with neighbors like this.
i just wish world will some day get regain beauty it once had, but i doubt it, im just a dumb nostalgic i guess
department of justice
I probably picked a bad picture, that area isn't the prettiest. The city centre's changed a lot, even in just the past 10 years. This is the same Hudson's Bay building as in , which became a TV station and some other things in the early 2000s, after the store moved to a nearby shopping centre, and now it's the University of Alberta's main downtown campus.
painted photo
yeah i am a Flemish seperatist to the core, but even i have to admit that some major astounding buildings where made under Belgian rule, and especially under Leopold II.
pic is national bank, still standing
I'm really sad, Jow Forums
1870
1943
Recently they demolished a lot of shitty postwar buildings and replaced them with old style buildings in Frankfurt, only leftists hate it.
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can't find any good pictures for some reason, but it hasn't changed much