How did your street look like 100 years ago?
Post pics of your street/city that is 100 years old or older.
Pic related is my street 2018 and 1910.
How did your street look like 100 years ago?
Chase Stewart
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Jeremiah Peterson
Can't really find any of my street, but this is my city, Nürnberg.
Levi Cooper
Americans used to actually go out and walk places.
We also had trolleys then.
Connor Watson
It's a big commieblock building now. Pic related doesn't exist anymore.
Ryan Phillips
Hudson Wilson
Julian Young
>inner city wall 1891
Carson Collins
I wonder what a beer would cost when that pic was taken.
Nicholas Roberts
>no more train travel
I like my car but using a trolley, train, or subway would be fucking dope.
Jace Diaz
Germany looked like a fairy tale land before the world wars. Still is a beautiful country tho.
Lincoln Allen
>outside of the city wall 1873
Brody Butler
Same but different.
Jason Russell
Thank you, some places still have that old magic.
Wyatt Davis
Elijah Turner
>main/market square
The wall and all the tower actually survived the war. Most of the buildings were lost, tho.
Ayden Fisher
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Robert Myers
Matthew Peterson
>one of the other big tours from the outside
Jose Perry
That's depressing
Landon Hall
All the buildings on the left still exist. The house is even the biggest half-timbered house in existence.(Iirc)
>BOSCH'ed
Zachary Smith
The Katschhof in the city of Aachen (also known as Aix-La-Chapelle), known for Carolus Magnus, in 1902. The Katschhof seperates the Aachen Cathedral from the Rathaus, which can be seen on the picture.
Easton Fisher
~1930 vs Today
In this area the buildings on the left were replaced by a modern-ish office or demolishd to make room for the park in front of city hall/court house the ones on the right are all the same. No streetcars.
Bentley Powell
We've been here since 1639.
Thomas Rodriguez
And here we see the Katschhof today.
Aachen probably is the most beautiful city in North-Rhine-Westphalia.
Jace Young
>along the river
Isn't Münster better looking?
Daniel Reyes
It didn't exist.
Camden Sanchez
My apartment building 1800 (something) and now.
Gavin Brooks
Jacob Reed
There were cabbage fields here a hundred years ago.
Ryder Green
Okay, Münster is great, too.
Bonn is okay, too. At least in my opinion.
Have you ever been to Aachen? It has some ugly corners, too. But it's 1000x better than those Ruhrpott monstrosities and 50x better than Düsseldorf.
Brayden Harris
:DD
Angel Martinez
s-so what is today's Nuernberg like?
Carson Long
Sadly, no. Always planed to go, even had some friends there but they moved before we could visit them.
Was in Bonn and thought it was really disgusting. But I heard they have quite some nice living areas were all the diplomates lived back then.
Henry Young
God bless our ability to civilize the world xD
Colton Mitchell
Well, what do you think?
Nathan Long
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Tverskaya street in Moscow
Connor Cook
There was a forest and swamps I believe.
Justin Powell
?????
Zachary Johnson
Nolan White
This is nice. You sure there aren't any hidden skeletons?
James Phillips
the pic reminds me of Kyoto, where harmony of buildings isn't taken into consideration. actually there are some cozy houses in your pic but the others spoil its harmonious atmosphere.
Landon Ortiz
You know, there was a little war going on at some point in the past...
Evan Gomez
WARUM
Isaac Parker
Why don't people just recreate the buildings like this? I'm sure there are building plans and blueprints somewhere still.
Jeremiah White
My street was built in the 1960s
Samuel Baker
Wouldn't surprise me, sure as hell is a couple ghosts in here.
Connor Richardson
Nigga you fucking obliberated us.
I'm not saying >we didn't deserve it, but it was a shame considering all the beautiful buildings that were destroyed.
Camden Taylor
this truly inclines me to cry, it's as destroyed as Syria...
t. your ex-ally
we also had destruction like that, the castle has just launched to be reconstruction of wood, tho. good thing
Henry Gray
1939 vs 2018
Charles Long
Good question and I can't really answer it, you should be right.
However, a fine example of how it should NOT turn out is the Berliner Stadtschloss, which was the main residence of the Hohenzollern after 1702. It was heavily damaged in 1945 and happened to be in East Berlin, so they tore it down and build the "Palace of the Republic" there, an abomination. Years after the reunification (in 2009) that building was tore down, too and reconstruction of the original Schloss began in 2013. However, they refused to build it exactly like the original and instead gave it a "modern touch", resulting in parts of it looking not good. Also, it will host the Humboldt-Forum whose agenda is to promote non-European cultures. The interior of the Schloss is really different from the original, the old one had a really famous small room called "Teezimmer" which was one of the favorite places of Frederik the Great. But nope, not important and inclusive enough. They even had a huge fight on whether they should put a cross on the roof (like the original) or not, since a cross as a christian symbol makes muslims and non-christians feel "uncomfortable" etc.
I don't have any pictures, but you can google it, if you like. It's not a total disaster but they could have done it about 20x better. They took the buildings soul away, the original Schloss was known as a masterpiece of baroque architecture.
Jace Cook
lol
Carter Davis
>city looked like
>all wealth gone
>everyone homeless
>winter is coming
>needed cheap houses fast
Well... can't really blame them.
What is way worse is that some nice stuff was destroyed way after the war by fucking m*dernists.
Pic related for example (not Nürnberg) survived the war and was blown up somewhere mid 60s.
Owen Sullivan
Thanks, we love you, too. Really, I feel like our nations are some kind of kindred spirits. I'm glad that both of our countries rose from the ashes.
Jonathan Fisher
Look up Entstuckung. Removing old stucco and wooden facades and plastering them over was one of the hallmarks of German post-war modernism.
William Watson
Xavier Perry
i thought Germany was making every effort to keep old buildings well but
>that pic
just horrifying 2bh
well you'd be even more astonished to see how post-war Japanese have destructed our remaining historic heritages. Kyoto, which is basically our Wien, went through the war almost unhurt and people fucked it up in the high economic boom
yeah, literally "Auferstanden aus Ruinen" mein Freund
Thomas Cox
my street was a unhabitated forest 100 years ago
Levi Rogers
I feel sorry for the Germans and Japanese having half of their cities totally destroyed in the 40s. At least they didn't voluntarily tear down half your historic buildings in an "urban renewal".
James Perez
Under Spanish rule
>Trams were prioritized as a method of transportation
>Old streets were preserved for other generations
>People were fit and healthy as a result of walking
>Scene was prettier and authentic
Easton Jackson
Under amerimutt rule
>Now cars have become the prioritized method of transportation
>Old streets were destroyed and paved
>People are fat and rely on polluting machines to transport them from x to y
>Scene was deteriorated to make Ford oligarchs richer
Blake Myers
>the castle has just launched to be reconstruction of wood, tho. good thing
That is really good to hear.
Some cities here also do a pretty good job.
Pic related is Frankfurt. They tore down these 3 ugly things in the upper pic (former city hall) to build pretty much the same houses that stood there before.
Jack Torres
Can't do my street so here is the centre of town in 1895 when we were still in the UK vs 2018. Some buildings still remain and to be honest, 1895 doesn't look as bad as I would've expected
Aiden Jackson
Kind of similar to our situation. Some places did a great job in rebuilding old stuff, but it got fucked over later. There are some areas where everything went well tho, even outside of modern Germany.
A very good example of a city that got fucking destroyed, became Polish and still got its old German city center back is Breslau/Wroclaw, the city my family has lived in/around for 500+ years. It's quite beautiful and has maintained large parts of its German heritage.
Jason Hill
They have actually rebuilt some old buildings as they were in Franfurt. Looks like shit tho
Robert Parker
Also try Danzig. Really nice city.
Aiden Stewart
fucking basiert
i don't necessarily think building old buildings newly is a bad thing, it tends to be criticized for flimsy and forged imitation but imho it's a praiseworthy attempt to restore and succeed what we lost , at least far better than soulless buildngs like the previous city hall
Cooper Kelly
Still looks comfier than this
Parker Mitchell
Mum showed me some old pictures of my neighbourhood, don't have them but the roads were cobbled, there was a tram service and lots of hillside terraces. Now the roads are tarmac, there's no tram and most of the terraced were demolished. There also used to be a church at the back of my house (my house was only built last decade though, the church has been gone for a long time), the graveyard still exists but it isn't maintained.
Caleb Hall
beautiful city with beautiful people
Aiden Wilson
>However, a fine example of how it should NOT turn out is the Berliner Stadtschloss
I feel you, my man. This is a fucking disgrace. I've read somewhere that the Greens (which were in power at that time) screwed everything up.
Isaiah Allen
I'm really chuffed this kind of cultural restoration is bearing fruit, Japan is backward in this sense. i hope my country will follow the same path as yours too!
Samuel King
Swamps and some German Farmers
Thomas Brown
Doesn't even look bad, just... sterile.
Landon Thompson
I live in a small town near the italian border, apart from defensive walls nothing changed much since the romans, it just looks like your typical med town i dont have the pictures near me right now
the real differences is the look of the people, men look like chechen athletes and women have large shoulders, strong jaws and big hands
Dylan Edwards
Such a shame... If the world wars didn't happen Europe (and especially Germany, Belgium, Northern France, Poland and the Netherlands) would have been so much more beautiful today...
Henry Edwards
it has been cleaned from filthy kraut
Landon Torres
Yes, you could say that. The Greens were heavily involved in this mess, but the other parties didn't really help either. Berlin is a hellhole in that aspect, it's incredibly "liberal" (the bad kind of liberal) and nothing works, it really harms the stereotype that Germans are efficient and get shit done.
The Stadtschloss was such an awesome building, everything about it. It deserves to be rebuilt 1:1. But no: Anything German and old about it has to disappear for the sake of the non-Germans living here, apart from 50% of the facade.
Ayden Hernandez
Well, the Katschhof and the Rathaus still look nice. At least I think so. The Cathedral survived it as well, which is remarkable and very pleasant.
Nathaniel Allen
In 1910 and in 2018.
John Allen
Yes, but the city hall and the church are pretty much the only things in Aachen that make the city worth visiting. It's a shame that over 1500 years of history have been destroyed due a silly war and doesn't have the aesthetics an important city like this should have anymore.
Nathaniel Garcia
The Bismarckstraße for example is beautiful, too. We still have many buildings from the old times, but they aren't always easy to find.
You're still right tho.
Liam Lee
The Church is still there
Camden Morales
Fredericksburg VA
around 1940 and 2018
Xavier Rogers
Fredericksburg VA
Sunken Road.
1862 and 2000s
Evan Williams
Hard to imagine that burgers really killed each other like that. For some reason strange to see such pics.
Hollywood really somewhat destroyed the image in my head about this war...
Camden Campbell
Hastings, East Sussex sometime around the 1910's
Carter Mitchell
is Nico's good? it looks good
Leo Cook
Never tried it
Samuel Nguyen
Whatever Hollywood touches it destroys. Fuck Hollywood. Don't watch the trash that comes from here dude.
Cooper Lewis
this was the only pic I could find
Samuel James
Noah Murphy
how old is that building?
Eli Martinez
Ryan Bennett
my street was farmland 100 years ago
Ian Bailey
enjoying your niggers and ratons you larping faggot?
Dominic Baker
I'm from all over, so here's the three towns I've spent the most time in. Top is Thomson, GA (couldn't find a picture from around the 1900's, but the building is the first bank established in 1899; I technically lived up the road in Dearing, GA, which existed then, but is so small even today that it's hard to find pictures of at all.). The second is Lake Elsinore, CA from 1909 looking at the Lake from the North Side (facing the Ortega Mountains), my area didn't even exist in the early 1900's. And the last is San Antonio, TX, Commerce St, around 1910 (where I live now didn't exist then).
Jason Jenkins
before
Wyatt Miller
after
Ethan Morgan
>all the vanishing streetcars in the pics from america
it didn't have to be this way brehs
Jeremiah Sullivan
Pori