Monday, August 18, 2008
Aerial Time Machine
Greetings all. I thought I would take a moment to give a plug to an interesting website called Historic Aerials. They have a huge online database of aerial photographs that you can use to view a particular spot on the map in different times. Here is an example where I am viewing the intersection of Sepulveda and Vermont around Harbor City. The first image is from 1972, the second one is 1980 and the last one is from 2004. I am trying to find out what the circus tent-like building is that once occupied the space where a Carl's Jr. now sits. You can see it clearly in the lower right of the first and second images. It's an interesting window into the past and some locations have photos going back to the 1940s. Check it out. It's fun.
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This is one of the coolest internet toys I've seen in a long time. It really is like a time machine.
Lots of surprises when you go way back- finding out what used to there, or the Whoa! That building was around back in '52!?
The building that looks like a circus tent might have been a Van de Kamp's windmill restaurant.
That is a very good guess Tris. There were a couple of those not too far from where I grew up in Orange County. The last surviving one is in Arcadia and is now a Denny's.
I was gonna suggest the Van de Kamp windmill too, but tris mast beat me too it.
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