ITT: Old photos from your country
Same spot today https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.1663543,24.943601,3a,50.7y,333.54h,85.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s055S8ayiNpX7KcZZFmIAbA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Bay street in Toronto
>>57581899
1935
1835, first pic featuring a person
Reforma Avenue in Mexico City
Vancouver Chinatown, 1945.
>>57582864
Reforma Avenue today
>>57583175
Looks comfy.
>>57581438
I'm not sure if its Rio or São Paulo but it's from 1941
kinda depressing
>>57582864
>>57582892
that's nice
here's avenida paulista in 1898
>>57583248
here's another one
>>57583461
here's avenida paulista today
>>57583471
That's a beautiful bridge
>>57583461
>>57582892
wrong quote, sorry m8
>>57583175
>>57583471
Rotterdam used to be so beautiful ;_;
Thanks, Hitler.
>>57583471
>>57582892
Pretty sure this is the same street today.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.2804236,-123.1012576,3a,75y,298.8h,88.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbjteaBYsezry5mezjhcPyQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
>>57583505
It's like the dates are the wrong way around
>>57583558
M grandfather has some photographs from right before and after the bombardment (planes included in pics), maybe I'll scan them in when I get my hands on them.
Also, here's more colour pics:
http://www.froot.nl/posttype/froot/oude-fotos-van-rotterdam-van-voor-de-tweede-wereldoorlog-ingekleurd/
>>57581438
Grodno
>>57584002
European bridges were so based.
>>57581438
Barcelona. 1957. Casa de la Caritat
Lorient, 1907
>>57584148
Barcelona. 1908. Palau de la Musica.
>>57584002
>>57584604
Why'd they replace the nice rails with ugly ones
>>57584002
>>57583175
>>57583471
>>57583574
>>57583891
Herbouwen die handel. Onze stad was eens zo mooi. Helaas is het nu gevuld met grijze "progressieve" architectuur. Waar zijn de gebouwen met de glorie van het Schielandshuis gebleven? Rebuild this city. I don't like this contrast. Where is our glory? It's a shame that a lot of our canals are gone
>>57584654
in Mogilev they demolished the houses which survived for 200 years for the expansion of the road
>>57584729
Not today, my friend
>>57585073
Today
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Maps.com/@60.3972624,23.0674415,3a,75y,89.37h,80.38t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sv4TNfP-iU5yp3yNI9fS0lQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dv4TNfP-iU5yp3yNI9fS0lQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D57.579613%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x80e9409854d6b815:0xe17f7c02ee56736c!6m1!1e1
>>57583421
Could you imagine what the world would be like if we skipped the boomer generation?
>>57586043
I wish Frankfurt looked like this today. I still love her though
>>57586316
>>57586396
I like how calm the cities were.
Like if most of it's inhabitants suddenly dissapeared.
>>57586316
>tfw 90-95% of my city was flattened during ww2 except the one thing the bombs were targetting (the U-boat base which is still standing to this day)
t-thanks a-america
>>57586453
>>57586533
>>57586518
That sucks, I hope they rebuilded it well.
Here 50% of the country was craterized.
>>57586453
>Like if most of it's inhabitants suddenly dissapeared
Well.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_from_Poland_during_and_after_World_War_II
>>57586914
>There were incidents when Poles, even freed slave labourers, protected Germans, for example by disguising them as Poles
And now another quote:
>"Approximately six million Polish citizens perished during World War II"
So yeah, I'm not feeling any guilt right now.
>>57586656
The city itself, yes
The buildings, no
Pic related is the "main" church, and yes it's a catholic church rebuilt to be a catholic church over the ruins of the old catholic church destroyed by the allies in 1943
Colored photos of Russian Empire
>>57587231
>>57587320
этo pacкpaшeнныe или их cpaзy в цвeтe дeлaли ?
>>57587358
cpaзy цвeтныe
>>57586275
In Frankfurt, they're at least currently trying to fix up the city center. I hope other cities will follow in their footsteps.
>>57586275
It was all gone. The buildings which are there are rebuilt and only a fracture sadly. (google for Konstablerwache today)
>>57586396
Breslau was a wonderful German city
>>57586656
>>57586533
>>57586453
>>57586396
>Here 50% of the country was craterized.
it's all German you faggot
>>57587358
Этo пepвыe цвeтныe фoтки, или oдни из пepвых.
>>57588969
Build on a polish and silesian one ;) 400 years of being polish don't just dissapear unless we're playing the meme game.
>>57589027
Fuck off with your revisionism you piece of human trash. Poznań was one of the first polish capitals and Gdańsk was polish longer then under your animalistic occupation.
http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/turun+seutu/840545/Uusi+Turku+nousee+vanhan+paalle++katso+kuvaparit
Click the images to change between past and present
>>57589272
kek, Danzig didn't even exist when it was Polish, same for Posen.
Stockholm 1935
Opening of the first proper airport for Stockholm
>>57589761
German embassy 1945
>>57589854
Germany VS Sweden football match 1941,
>>57589978
>1908
>>57589669
Oslo 1935
>>57590019
Germany soldiers giving candy to Swedish children (1941)
German weapons on the way to norway
>>57590117
Why did you guys have to build that ugly building?
>>57590272
You asking me like i'm the architect of something that was built almost 100 years ago.
>>57590464
That guy took the train thru Sweden to get there :^)
Inside one of the docks/tunnels Muskö
>>57583505
>>57583792
It's just a sad fact that neon is phased out. It's happening even in Hong Kong.
>>57590764
Muskö, during cold war
Madrid, XIX century.
My city (Granada), XIX century.
>>57590663
Cool story, why didn't your country fight?
Another pic, XIX century.
>>57582552
Neat.
>>57591006
>>57583558
> any dutch city
> beautiful, ever
i dont like the bleak, brown reddish aesthetic of your cities
Just fuck my cities up senpai.
>>57591006
No army more or less. We would just get steamrolled just like Denmark.
>>57583421
It's Rio, Rua do Ouvidor.
>>57591181
I see.
>>57591130
> how do you want your historical buildings senpai
> just box my shit up
>>57591349
Hade vi inte gått med på kraven som tyskarna ställde så hade de ju bara anfallit oss.
>>57581438
such a shame that they destroyed the old architecture
>>57583359
What year?
>>57591454
Men ifolge Max Manus hvis man romte til Sverige så var man jo trygg?
>tfw your village had its own little train
It's just an average road today
Nice degradation in last 60 years, lads.
>>57591542
Va? Ja, en hel del norska motståndsmän fanns i Sverige.
"Från sommaren 1943 påbörjades rekrytering av norska flyktingar i Sverige till militärtjänst. Detta skedde i samförstånd med den norska exilregeringen i London. För att inte väcka Tysklands protester angavs att det var fråga om "polistrupper”. De första utbildningslägren var Öreryd i Småland och Kjesäter i Södermanland. Utbildningen omfattade inledningsvis lätta handeldvapen, men successivt tillfördes tyngre vapen. Dessutom bedrevs sjukvårdstjänst och förbindelsetjänst. Större fältövningar bedrevs i Dalarna i december 1944 och i Hälsingland våren 1945. Den senare övningen omfattade 8 000 man, vilket var den största norska fältövningen efter första världskriget. Totalt utbildades 13 000 norska soldater i Sverige."
>>57591670
Liten funfact jeg lærte når jeg var i Garden.
Når tyskerne marsjerte opp Karl Johan så hadde ikke vaktene ved slottet fått beskjed enda om at det var krig, det var egentlig bare en gjeng med trondere som var på vakt der da.
>>57587231
Are those the ones taken around the turn of the 20th century? How'd they do that?
>>57591831
Three separate exposures filtered through red, green and blue plates.
>>57591758
Låter som den norska militären hade grava kommunikationsproblem.
Tyskarna sänke en ubåt för oss, och en hel del handelsfartyg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZx-Hx1JRoI
>>57591831
http://www.gridenko.com/pg
flyover hotel in my flyover state
>today: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6166882,-116.2059568,3a,75y,71.03h,101.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgphuoE5OiZtbVZ8qIKfmkg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
>>57591300
What has happened to this square?
Wish this street still had a trolley line down the center.
>>57588969
>>57587809
I still think all those cities have to be repaired. Although, there is a lot of work to do. Are there any plans to reconstruct the destroyed towers/ city gates of Frankfurt?
San Franciscans will have to post pics from 1906.
>>57592305
Torn down same as pic related. They were temporary from the start though.
>>57581438
Looking at this thread makes me wanna hurl. Cities used to have so much character - I can tell which ones are Northern European, which ones hosted world expositions and which ones had a tropical colonial past. Now its all the same ugly concrete flats, expensive condos and foreign-owned megamalls. I won't even bother posting city images from my country it would just make me have nostalgic feels
How about a 1907 movie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcl9XmApY-M
>>57581899
>>57582098
Everything looks so very similar
>>57583421
looks cool as fuck family
Everyone looks so well dressed but in a cool latin American wibe
>>57593154
Only whiter
>>57592764
Strict standards from the government can make a differnce but they require educated architects and city-planners.
>tfw all that wasted World's Fair architecture
>>57589978
who won?
>>57581438
>>57592391
If I remember correctly there were plans in the beginning of the century to reconstruct the "Langer Franz" (townhall tower) and some other towers nearby. That project unfortunately faded out a bit. But at least there has already been serious discussion about it.
Still, in Frankfurt (and some other cities – Dresden, for example) they seem to be heading in the right direction recently. I don't want to get my hopes too high up, but step by step we might be getting there.
On the other hand, there are some cities, where nothing but a second attempt could really help. Stuttgart, Pforzheim, Hanau… the only thing those towns (and many other) really have in common with their historical predecessor is their geographical position.
How is Rotterdam doing btw? It's a shame what happened to that city… I wish we could just push an "undo" button for pretty much everything that happened in those few years, so much cultural heritage lost mostly in a few hours…
