Same Place, 50 Years Later.

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on November 6, 2006 at 11:59 am


The basic idea of this webpage is quite simple: Take a vintage photo, take an identical photo of the site (with the same angle, etc.) as if the camera never moved and overlay the two. Must have taken a lot of time to get ‘em lined up right.

Link - via digg

Update 11/6/06: That’s North Carolina State University campus - Thanks megmeg and CJ!


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6 comments to "Same Place, 50 Years Later."

  1. beajerry
    November 6th, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    No kidding! That’s gotta be way harder than it looks!

  2. dead_red_eyes
    November 6th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    Wow, how neat!

  3. megmeg
    November 6th, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    WOW! This is soooo neat to me!

    That’s actually my university! North Carolina State to be exact. It’s so crazy to see how the campus used to look! I’m flabbergasted that it’s changed so much! Especially Hillsborough Street.

    ps- The thing that the guy says “no one knows what it is” … it’s a giant modernistic egg sculpture made by one of the old Design profs

  4. CJ
    November 6th, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    Interesting! I, too, recognized this as my old stomping grounds: NCSU.

    Phenomenal job by the assembler. I wish he would give credit to NCSU’s campus on the site.

    How come we don’t get snow like that these days? :)

    –CJ

  5. Hoot
    November 6th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

    Very, very cool. I’d love to see this done with other locales.

  6. Aramax
    November 7th, 2006 at 7:38 am

    Optical trick for the picture you selected for this article.

    The vehicle is hiding part of the the whole sidewalk so we dont know for sure if it’s the exact angle.

    Transparency gives the illusion that it’s the same day light but the sun never shine in the same exact angle especially after 50 years.

    Also you can notice that the windows on the left building dont match angle.

    It’s close tho… but nothing really special.


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