It’s crazy the amount of care and dedication to craftsmanship to so many things has just…ceased to exist.

@citizencoy4393

4 ай бұрын

Lol do you know whyyyyyy? Side eyes. I’m amazed at everyone avoiding the obvious!

@citizencoy4393

4 ай бұрын

Do you know whyyyyy? I’m more amazed at everyone avoiding the VERY obvious!

@youneedyourmedication

4 ай бұрын

@@citizencoy4393 That as the rich get obscenely richer, wealth is concentrated in an ever shrinking proportion of the world, leaving the rest of it to rot and decay?

@analyticalhabitrails9857

4 ай бұрын

LOLOL!! Yeah! Welcome to third world status!!

@GizmoRob176

4 ай бұрын

DEI puts an end to craftsmanship.

It's incredibly sad to see places such as the outdoor swimming pools fall into such disrepair. Places that were once filled with joy and happiness are left to rot 😢

@staceycooper1086

4 ай бұрын

My thought exactly!

@frglee

4 ай бұрын

In the UK, we once had lots of lidos (outdoor swimming pools) but after the 1970s they started closing, sometimes sold off to property developers who demolished them and built housing, for example at Wokingham, near Reading. The ones by the coast often used heated sea water, such as at Ramsgate. They all seemed very busy in the Summer months when I was a kid in the 60s, and I am not sure what killed them off, maybe municipalities building new indoor pools. A few lidos have been saved tho', such as at Gourock and Saltdean, as they have protected architectural merit.

@damionkeeling3103

4 ай бұрын

@@frglee Cheaper travel to Spain and other warm places at a guess.

@randymillhouse791

4 ай бұрын

Who cares? USA society is itself rotting. The American Dream is now to leave the USA.

@patarcher1813

4 ай бұрын

@@frglee The Guardian did a story on them a few years back. It was very interesting.

It strikes me that we've DEVOLVED since the "before" pictures were taken!

@jc4388

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely...flying cars and living on mars were predictions, now people don't even know who the are.

@newworldsoldier81

6 ай бұрын

its worldwide@@KingKongbabe

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Well said.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, I believe this is the situation in a lot of areas!

@KingKongbabe

6 ай бұрын

@@newworldsoldier81 with america leading the way

Those who dreamt about a glorious future world were sadly mistaken

@edgarpoinsot5502

5 ай бұрын

- Intentionally - the humankind was deceived.

@concrete7830

4 ай бұрын

Thank left wing politics for that

@dankelly5150

4 ай бұрын

@@concrete7830 Indeed !!

@lindahandley5267

4 ай бұрын

Thanks to the Government.

@analyticalhabitrails9857

4 ай бұрын

Yup. They thought someone else is going to preserve it or someone else is going to keep it going, but all fied in vain. So now, today america will never be the same, except just their Second Amendment is what makes the difference.

Loved how they beautifully restored that mansion!

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Me too!

@ninademci1500

5 ай бұрын

@stevie-ray2020, I’m glad the mansion was renovated and was the last photo we saw.

@tsunamis82

5 ай бұрын

A treasure restored, how nice.

@Tom-ok2rh

5 ай бұрын

I am too..looks like it was a daunting project glad someone thought it was worth saving

@drhkleinert8241

4 ай бұрын

It wasnt a restoration, in fact it was a new building after old documents.

I'm in my 70s. I do small, single, personal versions of these "before and after" covering anywhere from 30 to about 65 years. I use childhood photos, yearbook photos and various local, personally identifiable photos from the internet I happen to come across. I stand at the location where the photo was taken which is usually a spot where I stood in my younger days, once upon a time.

@webspaghetti

4 ай бұрын

this is as close to time travel as we can get, I sometimes do the same.

@RattledPan

4 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear that you do! It's a marvelous hobby! Try to get those scanned and onto the 'net! I fancy myself a genealogist, and I know what seems like gold to us studying one's family history. For others moving into a new area, your work will be helpful to others. I live south of Portland, Oregon, now, and enjoy learning about my new home. I don't have the advantages that others have had to record their past as I did in the Los Angeles area. I'm of the mind that you need to replant one's roots. The land that we live on now was Native land not more than 120 years ago. That's just a couple of generations. The coast here reminded me of Laguna Beach when I was a kid. The lovely white sanded beaches of SoCal are not the native sands. Oh, yes, it's quite true; when you are sunning yourself to a pre-cancerous burn on Huntington Beach, you are not sunning on the local stuff. I'd forgotten what our beaches looked like before the early 1970s but found them on the lonely, empty coast of Oregon. Greyish, brownish, dirty white sand with hunks and whole seashells, tangles of seaweed everywhere, and just a few beach shacks and a few places to get some fresh seafood served on a paper plate. The seafood caught off the beaches of SoCal is no more. The stuff sold at the Crab Cooker heading to Balboa Island is mostly imported from Asia now and is nasty beyond words. To my friends in the south, either go down to Baja or come up here for the tasty local stuff! More great memories can be had here~!

@mikewalters3048

4 ай бұрын

@@RattledPan I have Olympic-level sentimentality. A few weeks ago, I took my 1969 high school yearbook and standing where the yearbook photographer once stood over a half century ago, studied his black and white photo of a half dozen students casually sitting on the front steps of the school. There in the background, embedded in one of the bricks on a wall, was a dark spot about an inch in diameter. The wall is still there and of course that spot is too, which for some reason gave me a smile. You don't get any more nostalgic than that. For the record, I knew about half of those students in the photo. One is forever gone.

@TheHistoryLounge

4 ай бұрын

Great comment and great replies. I very much agree with everyone!

@bethhivley2633

4 ай бұрын

God bless you ❤

The photograph of Los Angeles from 2001 back to 1901 was the most dramatic.

@AB-jz9ns

6 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@me2big

6 ай бұрын

I recall leaving Los Angeles in 1972 ... there were NO "high-rise" buildings, because of the Earthquake Fear (especially after the January 1971 quake that collapsed a Veteran's Home ...) BUT there were signs up, saying "future site of ..." those damn ugly sky-scrapers!

@user-pinckneysux

5 ай бұрын

San Fernando valley is back behind them thar hills some where’s about!

@2244ntho66

5 ай бұрын

That photo set does not reflect the same location. Note the mountains in the first, and lack of in the second just showing hills.

@jwatchorn

5 ай бұрын

@@2244ntho66 Thank you, my thoughts exact

It was nice to see the derelict mansion in Detroit brought back from the ashes.

@me2big

6 ай бұрын

THAT was the biggest shock to me ... and there are other new buildings right next to it! Amazing!

@jond1965

5 ай бұрын

Agreed. A beautiful mansion as well

@MrEbeet

5 ай бұрын

That's the Ransom Gillis House and it was a renovation by HGTV show, Rehab Addict. very good series of episodes showing that reno.

@tonycharlton4296

4 ай бұрын

That was a lovely ending.

@_Sher__Lock_

4 ай бұрын

​@@me2big ugly new buildings

It’s amazing how life just moves on. In 100 years none of us will be here but everyone will be looking back on pictures of how we lived.

@thejerseyj5479

5 ай бұрын

Or, more likely, no one will be.

@RattledPan

4 ай бұрын

At the risk of being grim, I have to agree. Projections in my part of the world include most of Southern California, and a lot of Northern California will be tough or just not a place to live comfortably and affordably. Anything south of the parallel 40° north in our country. So, that's our next adventure! I don't see anything apocalyptic, though it will certainly be news of the day many times. I was born in 1959, and from birth, I have been told that these are the Last Times, which is poo as a Christian and as a member of the human race. IO was one of those kids who learned what to do if a nuclear bomb went off in the playground at school, and onward through the 1970s until today, hearing about the world as I know it will not be the same. Of course not! I was also of the generation that believed that by the year 2000, life would be like the Jetsons.

@laurenchristianna2092

4 ай бұрын

They won't be looking back at this mess. They will be focusing on making life on Earth "better" (massive understatement). They'll look back at shudder if anything.

@laurenchristianna2092

4 ай бұрын

​@@RattledPan​​ Yes these were the last days of an era. How is it "poo" when you see everything changing before you and you already know nothing lasts.

@PoesRaven73

4 ай бұрын

No one in the future will be looking at pictures of us today because we all have them stored on our PHONES.

One thing that stood out to me was that there used to be so MANY more people outside. Computers and social media has changed all that.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

To our detriment, I'd say...

@Iconoclasher

6 ай бұрын

Back then we knew and learned how to be human. We weren't saints but definitely a higher class.

@jamesbosworth4191

6 ай бұрын

That's why nowadays kids often have diabetes. Back in the day, it was almost always older people like myself who were diabetic.

@jamesloring7186

6 ай бұрын

A lot of people didn't have phones and internet wasn't around , if someone had work or business to attend to they had to be there

@jamesbosworth4191

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesloring7186 I am 68 years old. I was around way way before an Internet and way way before cell phones.

An amazing mix of places that went downhill, went uphill and those that didn't change a whole lot. I found this rather profound.

@TheHistoryLounge

5 ай бұрын

I take that as a great compliment - thank you!

@analyticalhabitrails9857

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, and it like the rest will remain just that, "profound".

People and buildings used to be more.... ELEGANT.

@edgarpoinsot5502

5 ай бұрын

In fact, elegance was everything.

@TC-dw6wg

5 ай бұрын

Well said!

@Inspadave

4 ай бұрын

They looked great on the outside.

@citizencoy4393

4 ай бұрын

Slave labor vs paid w Pennie’s labor

@lilya7110

4 ай бұрын

Yes, and they ‘went together’ and looked in harmony. The melting pot boiled over and now it’s a mess.

Some of the old photos specially from the 1950’s actually look better than the today pictures. America and Americans looked better back then.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

I tend to agree…

@pmccoy8924

5 ай бұрын

Completely different world, now. Thank "progress",

@carch7243

5 ай бұрын

Not some, most

@Powertuber1000

5 ай бұрын

That’s because they were all of European Ancestry. YT would block me if I said the color.

@freedomfightergrl5615

5 ай бұрын

​@@Powertuber1000Definitely agree!

I like the way you ended the video. With the repair of that beautiful old house.

@lestatangel

6 ай бұрын

I'm about a year away from ending a renovation on a 1902 Victorian in the midwest. It was just about as sad as that house was.

@thekurtcobainfoundation4200

6 ай бұрын

@@lestatangel Oh wow. I'm sure that house is giving you hugs and kisses. Your house says I know this wasn't easy but it was WORTH it. You'll see.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for noticing and pointing this out! I felt that, since a lot of the scenes tended to look better in the earlier time, it would be good to end on a positive note. That renovation was definitely inspiring to see.

@dentalnovember

5 ай бұрын

I was about to give up until I saw this.

@liveevents9191

4 ай бұрын

Broke my heart with happinetss

Incredible, sad and nostalgic.

Being from Windsor, Ontario, Detroit's Canadian neighbour, it was great that you ended your film with the mansion renovation. It's heartening to see Detroit coming somewhat back to life after a long, long decline

I have worked in downtown KCMO for over 40 years, have seen a lot of old structures taken down and replaced with sterile glass and steel facade monstrosities.

@omartinoco9930

5 ай бұрын

Gentrification

@rick5793

5 ай бұрын

Sadly our cities and towns have lost their personalities and the number 1 reason is greed just pure moronic greed.

@briandavid3637

5 ай бұрын

​@@rick5793said it over and over again if there was a time machine I'm going back, the future sucks, with the exception of medical advances 😢

@TdT2211

5 ай бұрын

And terrible architecture. ​@@rick5793

@timprescott4634

4 ай бұрын

That was the grossest comparison in this whole video…I’d LOVE to see their justification for it.

Fabulous pics, i think the past times show alot,a vastly different era, i cant see people looking back at today with any great admiration or sentiment .

Wish we could see more of these! Get too see how our parents and grandparents grew up! 🙂

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

I agree!

@paulmilner8452

5 ай бұрын

they had way more fun for sure

@lorettadansereau8651

4 ай бұрын

Agree before technology took over, videogames, in home movies, online shopping. Would like to see a time of then and now with shopping malls, clearly would depict how much we've changed in our lifestyles over the years?

Everything seemed more peaceful then, cleaner too. Rapid transit (trolleys) in nearly every old photograph. No graffiti. Wonder if we're going in the right direction 🤔 Great music choice 👍

@alpenhuhn1

6 ай бұрын

We left the right direction long time ago!

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Hey, Craig - Thanks for watching and commenting. I think most people here share your thoughts, as do I. I'm glad you liked the music!

@jamesbosworth4191

6 ай бұрын

We are and have been going in the WRONG direction in most areas.

@104thironmike4

6 ай бұрын

Ofc, everything was better in the 1950s, medical care, child birth, workers rights, civil rights for blacks, eeeeeeverything was so so much better, lol.

@jamesbosworth4191

6 ай бұрын

@@104thironmike4 It was grim for Black folks in the 50s - legal Jim Crowe, couldn't vote in many places, Whites Only jobs, Whites Only restaurants, Whites Only neighborhoods, Whites Only hospitals, Whites Only stores, and more. Everything else you claim, though, you are 100% On Point. And our cars were the envy of the world.

I noticed that even small towns used to all have mass transit. Today, none.

@larryherring445

5 ай бұрын

Mass transit brings trouble to the neighborhood. Those people.

@christopherpardell4418

5 ай бұрын

@@larryherring445 Wow, making mass transit racist. Back in the day, folks who lived in the city did not have the money to own, board, and care for horses. So Cities and Towns had Livery stables, where you could rent a carriage and even a driver when you needed one to get somewhere. But by the 1880’s the horse manure problem in the cites had become a nightmare. So they tried to reduce horse usage by building horse drawn rail trolleys. As the internal combustion engine came around they moved to powering them either with gas engines, or by string in electrical cables overhead to power electric motors. And “those people’ who used mass transit were everyone from the rich to the poor. But automobile companies started bribing politicians to tear out the rail based mass transit systems to make room for cars. And they made gas busses to transport those folks that could not afford their own cars. THAT is what segregated mass transit between the affluent and the poor. But what the heck was the result? Cities that are Un walkable, unlivable and choked with traffic and pollution. Europe never tore out its mass transit system. It invested in MORE mass transit and it has no effect on ‘trouble’.

@YouSUBSCRIBE739

5 ай бұрын

Who is "those people?" 🤔 That u keep posting abt...jus bein curious 🤷‍♀️

@dorseykindler9544

4 ай бұрын

@@YouSUBSCRIBE739Love your virtue! Thanks for signaling it :)

@rebecca8525

4 ай бұрын

Yes, the popularity of the automobile in the 1950’s really changed America, and not for the better.

So sad to see how civilization came - and went.

@user-uv8bv4dm9f

4 ай бұрын

But it can come back- the restoration of the ruined mansion at the end of the video shows that.

@LittleKitty22

4 ай бұрын

@@user-uv8bv4dm9f True, but civilization in general is in decline. We can only hope that after it's declined enough, people will realize what's happening and become civilized again.

@daddyrabbit835

4 ай бұрын

Just look at how we dress compared to then

@LittleKitty22

4 ай бұрын

@@daddyrabbit835 I still dress like this, I wear vintage designer dresses. But I dstand out and have to endure ridicule and stares. People dress appallingly now!

@analyticalhabitrails9857

4 ай бұрын

Come on, new world order!

I enjoyed this! I wish the before and after pics had been side by side for comparison!!

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Hi Nancy - Thank you very much for your comment and suggestion. I considered making the video in the format you suggested, but I thought the moving image style would be more "watchable." However, I'm glad you brought this up - perhaps I can get away with using the same photos in a new video, this time displayed side-by-side? I'm sure you're not the only person who would prefer the video done this way, so I'll definitely consider re-doing it that way in the future. Thanks again for your positive comments and helpful suggestion!

@SMac-bq8sk

5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryLounge: She's definitely not the only one.😁

@awakenotwoke1973

4 ай бұрын

It doesn't really work with a 16:9 aspect unless there are 4 photos.

Does anyone else remember when your parents would send you outside to play with your friends, for many hours. Of course, Mom would “check on us”. The good days. I was born in 1958. Moved from Philadelphia to a new home in suburban NJ, in 1961. Stratford NJ

It tears my soul to see places that were once lovely, full of life, laughter, and community, only to later see them in ruins or completely gone. I don't mind as much a missing store, gas station, soda fountain or burger joint, but schools, churches, hospitals and community places like resorts and pools are big losses to me. Progress comes at a price, not measured in dollars and cents.

@sekenamcmurren2217

5 ай бұрын

🙋🗽🍎This was extraordinary the differences from one century, decade to another...From the time when I was born until the time when my parents and grandparents were born. Wow! 😂👍🏼

@larryherring445

5 ай бұрын

Well we all know why things get ruined. Those people.

@logiclight

5 ай бұрын

​@@larryherring445?? Which people?

@larryherring445

5 ай бұрын

@@logiclight the dregs of society.

@Kite-te9km

5 ай бұрын

​@@larryherring445 The people who built white room?

Our local newspaper does this regularly for areas around the city. The buildings were always more beautiful in the past than they are now. Also the number of people out and about like another commenter had mentioned.

FABULOUS video!! Let's please have more of this kind - exquisite stuff!

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Wow - thank you for your very kind words. I'm certain that nobody has ever used the word "exquisite" to describe any of my videos, but I sure appreciate that you did! I'll definitely be trying to make more quality videos like this in the future, as I learn more what I'm doing with the editing. Thanks again!

@Nunofurdambiznez

6 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryLounge Awesome!! Looking forward to more of this kind! Thank you!

@YouSUBSCRIBE739

5 ай бұрын

Yes pleaze 🤗...more videos like this one! tyvm🤗

I was born in 1956. It makes me so very grateful to have been alive when things were so much better, and it makes me so sad how far we have fallen.

@margaretadami6358

4 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more (born 1957)

@user-eu3qy8uf7f

4 ай бұрын

It is sad. I was born in the early 50s and am just now feeling that strange sadness of days and years gone by and so many buildings, places and people gone. Even going back to places I hadnt seen in years or people. I even looked up some folks on ancestry only to find many died years ago and realize I'll NEVER know,what happened or see or talk with them again. A few people I did see but again time changes everything but then sometimes a few places and people remain frozen in time.

@davidbreen4353

4 ай бұрын

i agree born 1955!

@carriered4715

4 ай бұрын

I feel the same, born in 1962 !

@analyticalhabitrails9857

4 ай бұрын

You, kids from world war 2 veterans, are a disgrace and should be ashamed to even call yourselves their kids. A nation that had much to lose, yet did little to prevent it. All died in vain.

Very interesting. It definately shows how over populated we are now & how our city-scapes have taken over nature.

Proud to drive my 1950 Oldsmobile hot rod !!!!! Brings me back to better times !!! So l live in the past!!! What does the modern world have to offer?????

@omartinoco9930

5 ай бұрын

The cars in these photos were more glamorous back then. Now they are just fast and ugly🐡

@stevehughes2133

5 ай бұрын

Me too, nothing wrong with living in the past, I miss the 60's so bad it hurts!

It’s so beautiful how they “created” buildings with artistic characteristics and aesthetically stunning features… it’s truly a lost art. 😢 Classic buildings have so much personality! 💒

@terrybiker2625

4 ай бұрын

and if you open your eyes, you will see how they have removed/renovated and destroyed such glorious buildings from the past owners of what must have been such a wonderfull place to live. It is still going on today.

Outstanding compilation! Boggles my mind how you were able to match photos of the same site, from virtually the same perspective, decades apart. I wouldn't even know where to start...old first then find new? Or vice versa? Whew! Lotta work! KUDOS!!👍

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Bruce! I really appreciate your very kind comments. I cannot take credit for all of the photo match-ups, as I found several from various sources where people had them posted already as before-and-afters. For the ones I did myself, I started with the old photo first, then searched for newer pics, or simply went to Google Maps and grabbed a screenshot. Thanks for watching and commenting - I'm glad you liked the finished product!

@YouSUBSCRIBE739

5 ай бұрын

Hellooooo 🙋@TheHistoryLounge New sub 😉...after watching this video of amazing transformations! 💯💯💗 I think u did a great job! 🤗

@TheHistoryLounge

5 ай бұрын

Hey, @@YouSUBSCRIBE739 - welcome! Thanks for saying 'Hello! Thank you for your kind words - I'm really glad you liked the video!

Anybody else wanna go to the past picture??

Когда смотрю такие фотографии, меня не оставляет щемящее чувство, что этих людей на фото давно уже нет на этой земле, и, возможно, живы уже только их правнуки. А люди жили, работали, о чем-то мечтали, к чему-то стремились, влюблялись, ссорились, мирились, женились, рожали детей,... Жизнь их прошла своим чередом. И что осталось? И понимаю, что и мне не так много еще отпущено..Возможно, самые активные 2/3 своей жизни я уже прожила..... А хочется жить долго, не старея.. И что-то оставить после себя.. Дети точно останутся.

@siggyretburns7523

4 ай бұрын

4:15 I grew up about 4 miles from Balboa, Ca. Its still there. But the nieghborhood I grew up in has changed now. Its all upper class, so I cant afford it. My high school is about ½ way between here and where my home was. I miss it so much.

We need to go back.

@frankrizzo4460

5 ай бұрын

Yes someone invent a time machine I'm all in.🚀

Outstanding video! I love the then and now pics to see how far we've come... or gone. Love the mansion restoration

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Hey, Tom - Thank you so much! I too enjoy seeing photo pairs like these. While many of the subjects of this video ended up looking better in the "before" phase, the mansion restoration was definitely an encouraging sight. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@matthewmiller2219

6 ай бұрын

Devolved is the word you're looking for

So sad to see the changes in our country.

@sarasays...850

5 ай бұрын

It’s what happens when several generations are taught to be anti-USA. No love or respect for anything that came before.

@johnsecord8539

5 ай бұрын

The more diverse America gets. The worst it is.

@rebecca8525

4 ай бұрын

@@johnsecord8539 I see, so you’re a racist.

This is SO AMAZING!! I love seeing the pictures decades apart. I really think it is cool when you see someone exploring an old abandoned house, but then you see photos of what iit looked like back in the day!

@derealized797

5 ай бұрын

At 1:46 or The Pines. I was there in 2007, took a good look around and got some pictures throughout the place. The amount of damage I saw back then, considering it was abandoned about 1998 I think, makes me surprised that anything still there. There can't be much left of it today. But there's a lot of abandoned resorts out there in the Catskills. I've seen some impressive places in the past.

I like the old times more.

@NPCHSN

13 күн бұрын

MAGA

Reminds me of a favourite quote from the movie Steel Magnolias. “Time marches on and eventually you realize it’s marching across your face!”

These pictures are amazing. Brings back lots of good memories of how things used to be. Thanks for putting this together I really enjoyed it.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Hey Frank - Thank you very much for your comments. It is my hope that the videos like this one will do exactly that - bring back some happy memories of the old days. Thanks for watching!

@alex8er

5 ай бұрын

Yeah! Brings a lot of great memories of my life in 1860s

Simply the best one you have done so far. Wonderful! ✨✨✨

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for those kind words! I’m trying to improve my skills in making these videos, and I did try to make this one special. I very much appreciate the compliment!

I love seeing pictures of old sites and how they evolved. A lot of the old buildings survived, and they built them better back then.

The Castkills photos are a sad sight to see of a time long gone by.

@Gertyutz

4 ай бұрын

We used to go there for vacations.

@davidbreen4353

4 ай бұрын

agreed, i grew up in the Catskills.

@margotconway8605

4 ай бұрын

What happened to the Catskills?

@Gertyutz

4 ай бұрын

@@margotconway8605 The resorts fell out of favor with new generations. They were expensive, they had kosher food, the entertainment was old-fashioned. They were part of my generation (I'm 77) and my mother's generation. Of course the Catskills are more than just Jewish resorts.

Thank you for sharing these photos. They are amazing.

We lost something so beautiful in our minds,OUR way of thinking,it's so sad.😣😣

Happy to see my mom’s hometown Petersburg, VA! In 1865 it had been under seige for almost a year. As of 2023 it has certainly has its challenges but there are still many historical buildings, shops and restaurants. We have a fav we eat at in Old Town almost weekly.

The contrast of used to be versus today is very interesting. I knew the son of the original owner of my parents home, which was built in 1929. He used to tell me what the neighborhood looked like. It used to be a farm and when they built the house there was one road about a mile away from the house. He told me the movers had to transport a grand piano in the mud to the house. And how there was gas lighting and a fire place to warm the house.

Some of the downtowns or what you would call classical squares were maintained but most of this charm in America was lost because of the advent of the mall. The mall destroyed the intimate nature of the center of each city. But the ones that kept theirs have really something to cherish

Places seemed to be more lively, more densely populated, lots of public transport.

its remarkable how beautiful was everything "before"

I currently Iive in Worcester, MA....not far from the photo of Main & Front St. you had. If you were able to do a 180° turn, you would see City Hall right behind where the photos were taken. Great video. Loved seeing all the before and afters. In most cases, it was sad to see progress...but in some it was truly needed.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Hey Eric - Thanks for the tip. I just took a look on Google Maps, and wow - what a beautiful building that City Hall is, and it looks like it's probably been there a while. I should have had some old and new pictures of that building in the video. It looks great today!

Sad that so many lively small towns in the south are now abandoned never to return.

That was depressing. Look at everything we have destroyed. Only a few scenes remained the same. Other than the last photo, nothing has changed for the better.

Thank you. You have brought a warm smile and tears to my face. ❤

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, Rebecca. Your kind words mean a lot to me. I actually feel the same way watching it.

That old mansion being restored was amazing!

Some of the places look much better now than they did then. Some not so much.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Very true - I would agree.

@matthewmiller2219

6 ай бұрын

Almost all not so much

I love this video. The music transports us back in time, beautifully. Thank you! Subbed

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Glad to have you here. Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you liked it!

look at the beauty in all the contruction, wow

Portsmouth NH is a historic city, still beautiful. I loving living in NH!

The restored mansion in Detroit was featured on the Nicole Curtis tv show Rehab Addict. I used to park my car in front of it when I worked at Comerica Park baseball stadium when it was a wreck and watched the rehab being done in person when I would go to the games. Also, the Michigan Central train station in Detroit was purchased by Ford and has been rehabilitated. It re-opens December 26,2023 after being closed since 1988. Photos of the rehab are amazing

@TheHistoryLounge

5 ай бұрын

Hi Mike - Thanks for the additional information. That would have been cool to have seen that mansion in it's before stage, and then see it rehabbed the way it was. I just looked up some of the photos of the train station rehab, and it does look amazing. It looks like the who area/district is being improved. Glad to hear it!

These were taken in the US. Nevertheless, the feels are intimately recognizable all over the world. I'm from Indonesia and just minutes into the vid, my mind went to my childhood places when life was full of wonders, not taxes and bills. Thanks for the trip, friend.

@TheHistoryLounge

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful comment!

It's amazing to me that the old home in New Jersey is STILL there, and seemingly in good shape ...

@TheHistoryLounge

3 ай бұрын

Yeah - that one looked old in the original photo! I looked it up and the area where it's located has become some kind of state park or natural area, and that house is now used as part of the park.

Times have changed. Some for the better and some for the worse. Thanks for sharing.

Sometimes these types of videos make me wish I lived back in the past.

Excellent 😊

All those lives lived and as we will all, with times arrow, fade away into pictures and stories or fade. Enjoy this life. It's unique and all too soon gone.

That was Great research. Looking forward to more.

@TheHistoryLounge

3 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you for the ending, it was uplifting after I found nostalgia & a twinge of sadness settling in after watching many of the previous 😊

@TheHistoryLounge

5 ай бұрын

I’m glad you appreciated it. I felt that a positive ending was needed for exactly what you described.

The old pioneer square in Seattle is still there. It’s buried under ground. They built over it. After the fire of 1889.

This was beautiful. Although I dont live in USA, it gave me goosebumps to see the gorgeous places of yesteryear.

Great pics. Wonderful music!!! Some more please, both pics and music. Especially the music!

Great video as always. Amazing too the number of buildings still standing and looking good.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! And yes, I totally agree regarding the buildings. I’m glad to see many of them still around.

Great video and one of the few that has music that was not only pleasant to listen to but seemed to fit the subject matter very well. You got my subscription.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Awesome - I’m glad you enjoyed it!

There is one thing missing from all the new pictures, people. Man, it was great seeing people milling about in the older pictures.

as a kid growing up in N.Y. i remember grossingers, a resort for big celebrities, and rich people back in it's day. i notice the changes taking place in my city everyday. it sucks, expansion, too many people, buildings torn down, wider roads, new buildings. it really does suck. great video. i miss small towns.

Those Catskills pics are CRAZY!

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

I agree! Many of those places now are just razed to the ground - but some people got out there and captured some really cool and eerie photos of those old resorts. It’s sad they’re not around anymore, but some of those pics are an art form themselves.

@davef.2329

6 ай бұрын

The "Borscht-Belt." My late Dr. had pictures in his home from when he worked there as a teenager a couple summers in the 50s.

@brucestaples4510

6 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh, Dirty Dancing.😉🎬🎥

@TheHistoryLounge

3 ай бұрын

Yes - exactly!

I was born and raised in Virginia, so It was nice to see that old photograph of Petersburg, Virginia in 1865. That was the year the Civil War ended. Petersburg is near Richmond, Va. I also found the picture of Los Angeles to be fascinating! Too bad it couldn't have stayed that way. For some reason the early picture of that small house on the dirt road inn New Jersey was very interesting to me. I loved seeing the kids in those period clothes. What a great video! Sharing with my friends who like history.

@TheHistoryLounge

5 ай бұрын

Hey Patricia - I'm really glad you liked the video. This is one of my favorites I've made for this channel. Thank you for your kind words and for sharing the video. I hope your friends like it too!

This was a great video! It’s one of the reasons I love old black and white photo postcards! It’s so interesting to see how areas have changed! Some for the better, some for the worse!

This was fun! Thanks for ending on that happy note. I love seeing buildings tended and kept and brought back to life.

I actually prefer old picture then how it is today...not the backwards.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Yes, me too - that’s why all the photos fade from new to old!

@zeroceiling

6 ай бұрын

Clearly everyone feels the same way!

Great content and so interesting. Some changes seemed to be for the better but others are not. Very good choice of background music.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for adding your comments - definitely true points. I'm glad you liked the music!

Great seen before and after pictures of the same or similar areas. At the end it was nice to see it going the other direction, weather Detroit mansion. Thanks for putting out such a fine product.

Exact overlays from newer to old...even with the pictures moving is beautifully done! Salute! The loss of some gorgeous architecture is saddening.

@TheHistoryLounge

3 ай бұрын

I very much agree - the loss of the architecture truly is saddening. (Thanks for noticing the overlay transitions!)

Very interesting! Thanks for posting. So many comments about how much better things looked in the old days, but I bet those quaint streets with horse-drawn carriages didn't smell too good!

awesome

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Thanks

This is why I love 💕 historians and photographers❤they save this beautiful stuff and document what the rich people have destroyed to make nothing now ,,thank you historians and photographers ❤

Thank you for putting this out. Always nice to see things like this. ❤

Great job researching and coordinating pictures!

@TheHistoryLounge

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, Jimmy!

Awesome video!Greetings from Finland!🇫🇮

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Kiitos kun katsoit ja kommentoit! Terveisiä Yhdysvalloista!

@ilpoutriainen

6 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryLounge Kyllä näitä hienoja videoita katsoo mielellään!

Great presentation, I come from Australia, and I first travelled to the West Coast U.S. in 1988 returning in 2000 and again in 2011 ,things have changed in that short period of time and many things not for the better.

I was entranced. Thank you so much for this impressive and touching collection. Much appreciation from South Africa 🇿🇦 🫡

@TheHistoryLounge

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for your kind comments!

Does anyone know why those resorts in the Catskills shut down and were abandoned? They looked really fun.

@Peg-zl9lr

5 ай бұрын

"Trips to Europe, that's what the kids want " Dirty Dancing

@Peg-zl9lr

5 ай бұрын

When airplane travel became more affordable, people stopped going to the Catskill area.

@Mick_Ts_Chick

5 ай бұрын

@@Peg-zl9lr That's kinda sad. I hate to see formerly cool things in ruins and abandoned. I guess I'm just a sentimental fool 😂

@Peg-zl9lr

5 ай бұрын

@@Mick_Ts_Chick I still go to the Catskill area several times a year.

@Zalis116

4 ай бұрын

Part of it was the decline of anti-Semitism -- a lot of those resorts catered to Jewish communities that were excluded from other vacation destinations. When social attitudes changed, the resorts lost their "captive audience."

Wow, that mansion looks 90% to what it used to look like. it's missing some windows on the roof, but they did a beautiful job regardless and i am so happy they restored it and gave it new life. This video makes me upset...because most of the Victorian/1900's transitions shows a regression. A beautiful city with beautiful statues and archways just either completely removed or downgraded to some faceless simple plain flat looking glass buildings. As a former New Yorker growing up in Queens, i've seen many Victorian buildings or remnants of the past hiding in plain sight...What would i give for some ability to Time-Travel but a variant where you can't physically interact or be seen or touched. My first Stop would be Vintage Brooklyn Coney Island 1910's. Though i fully understand that regardless of what time period we see in Awe and wonder, there will always be what hasn't been photographed much, the slums. I'm subscribing to your channel.

@TheHistoryLounge

6 ай бұрын

Hi @TwilightRO1 - Thanks for your well-considered comments. In my city of Minneapolis, they took out so many beautiful early 1900s buildings during the urban renewal period of the 1960s and '70s. Some of the buildings that didn't get torn down have been renovated and refreshed maintaining their original styles, and they're really neat buildings to visit. When compiling this collection, I was often happily surprised to see certain blocks that have retained a lot of their old buildings. I'd like to do a video on early 1900s tenements, but as you point out - there are not as many pictures available of these areas. Thanks for watching and subscribing!

We have NOT progressed. So sad the changes. But a bright spot at the end! Thanks for sharing.

The photos of KC, MO blew my mind....

Over 20 years ago, I wrote a then and now picture book - Baltimore Transitions (available on Amazon), published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most of the "now" photos were taken in the early to mid-1990s. Looking back, I can see additional changes over the last 30 years. The years fly by, the now becomes then, and time marches on. Change is the only constant and not, unfortunately, always for the better. One of the sadder sets here is a former Katskills resort, once a thriving vacation place and now weed-infested and abandoned.

@stephen3164

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like it’s time to do a follow up book of then, later, and now!

Some places have turned for the better … but some have definitely turned for the worse. A split screen picture following the before and after shots would have been a nice visual too. Maybe next time.

Amazing. I was at the Pines in the Catskill in 1980 for the Hudson Division Convention of the American Radio Relay League. The most modern building now in the Catskill is the Resorts World Casino near Monticello, NY off Route 27, which is being upgraded to I-86. Portsmouth, NH is near me, and just celebrated it's 400th anniversary of founding in 1623. I was there for the 350th anniversary, in the US Air Force at Pease, AFB nearby. 😊

The LA picture was the one that got me the most. What a difference!