Interesting Then and Now Photos
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ScottRadom
Shogun of Saskatchewan
Fascinating. Thanks for the post.
The one that got me was the pic of the street corner with the dead bodies and soldiers around them. That'll stick with me. Living where I do in Western Canada we're such a fledgling community in comparison. I can't imagine eating, shopping, and generally living in a place with such an enormous weight of history surrounding you. 65 years ago my city was mostly just fields. My house wasn't even built until the early eighties.
I gotta get over to Europe some time.
Thanks very much Dragomir! Cool link.
The one that got me was the pic of the street corner with the dead bodies and soldiers around them. That'll stick with me. Living where I do in Western Canada we're such a fledgling community in comparison. I can't imagine eating, shopping, and generally living in a place with such an enormous weight of history surrounding you. 65 years ago my city was mostly just fields. My house wasn't even built until the early eighties.
I gotta get over to Europe some time.
Thanks very much Dragomir! Cool link.
those pics are very cool...
i really like the soldiers walking towards the new cars...
nice juxtaposition...
as a Californian, i grew up in the same boat as Scott...
everything was so new...
when i moved to Amsterdam i couldn't believe that my house was built in 1635...
it was full of marble, beautiful windows and stone, right on a canal in the red light district,and yet a bunch of 20 year old colleg students, from all over Europe,, lived there partying like rock stars...
all the old houses in the centrum are from that era...
all propped up with giant pilings, and surrounded by head shops, coffee shops, hookers and sex shows...
a very surreal combo...
the square I walked through everyday, on my way to work at the coffee shop, was called the Newmarket...
a cool old market square from the 1100's...
one day i saw the square on "The World at War" from the BBC...
turns out it was fenced off in the war, and was the last spot for rounding up Jews before taking them to the trains at central station...
changed my perspective the next time I walked those same stones...
that kind of thing happens all over Europe...
walking over the graves of WWI pilots on small village sidewalks...
sleeping out in the Ardennes in winter, in the same spot as the guys in the Battle of the Bulge...
looking out at England from German bunkers on the Dutch coast...
not to mention castles, and ruins...
you really are transported back in time in a way we can't in the states or Canada...
we do get to go to Mexico for the Aztec stuff, which kicks ass...
they had an incredible warrior tradition, so much of which got preserved...
cheers
jah
i really like the soldiers walking towards the new cars...
nice juxtaposition...
as a Californian, i grew up in the same boat as Scott...
everything was so new...
when i moved to Amsterdam i couldn't believe that my house was built in 1635...
it was full of marble, beautiful windows and stone, right on a canal in the red light district,and yet a bunch of 20 year old colleg students, from all over Europe,, lived there partying like rock stars...
all the old houses in the centrum are from that era...
all propped up with giant pilings, and surrounded by head shops, coffee shops, hookers and sex shows...
a very surreal combo...
the square I walked through everyday, on my way to work at the coffee shop, was called the Newmarket...
a cool old market square from the 1100's...
one day i saw the square on "The World at War" from the BBC...
turns out it was fenced off in the war, and was the last spot for rounding up Jews before taking them to the trains at central station...
changed my perspective the next time I walked those same stones...
that kind of thing happens all over Europe...
walking over the graves of WWI pilots on small village sidewalks...
sleeping out in the Ardennes in winter, in the same spot as the guys in the Battle of the Bulge...
looking out at England from German bunkers on the Dutch coast...
not to mention castles, and ruins...
you really are transported back in time in a way we can't in the states or Canada...
we do get to go to Mexico for the Aztec stuff, which kicks ass...
they had an incredible warrior tradition, so much of which got preserved...
cheers
jah
