Then and Now Images

[mb4807]

One from the Alps

In 1986 I borrowed my dads CX500 and left him with my YPVS 350 while I toured France with a mate for two weeks on a very limited budget.

I took this on the way up to the Col du Galibier. It was the first glacier I'd ever seen and I loved it. (Excuse the quality, this is a picture of the picture I took).

25 years later this is the same glacier - or what's left of it at least...

 

[chad]

another great selection of pics steve


MB thats a great comparison too , i was half expecting to see a lot less glacier , bu that one seems to be holding up fairly well

 

[Wrinkly]

The best thread....ever

Steve

 

[sfarson]

another great selection of pics steve


MB thats a great comparison too , i was half expecting to see a lot less glacier , bu that one seems to be holding up fairly well

mb, Indeed, a terrific (and creative) comparison.

 

[Gazza1250]

Thank you for sharing your pictures i enjoyed looking at them

if only we could go back in time to have a look around that would be interesting.

 

[sfarson]

If you can stand some more...

Como is a small historic community located at 9,800ft. elevation in the high meadows of South Park, Colorado. While golden ores were the draw at most area mining camps, it was black coal leading to the establishment of Como in 1871. Italian coal miners named the camp after Lake Como, in Italy. In 1879 the Denver, South Park & Pacific railroad build a depot here, along with narrow gauge tracks over nearby Boreas Pass. Well, for a few decades thousands lived here. Today, perhaps around 100 is the pop. Most of the structures are old. The place looks authentic. Here's a then/now tour.

Well, first, a few "now" structures, but no "then", just to give a feel for the place...

Here's the Catholic church in the late 1800's...

I found the above image after taking a pic of the Catholic church today...

Here are some of the miners gathering for a group photo...

Same backdrop but I'm much further away and using a serious zoom. Several fenced properties between me and where the miners stood...

Here's Como about 80 years ago...

Alas, a rancher's fence and gate that I'm leaning against behind me threatened serious prosecution if I snuck across for a better now perspective...

At about the same time, 80 years ago...

Today...

Merged...

Here's the Como school around 100 years ago...

Now it is the Como Civic Center...

Something about seeing youth long ago. Guess overalls were the apparel choice for boys back then...

And where they stood...

The Como General Store long ago...

Until a few years ago it remained open. Maybe someday someone will give it a go again...

Last, In the 1930's the train gave way to autos. The tracks were pulled up and operations shut down. Here's the train roundhouse in the 1950's...

And here's the train roundhouse in 2012. It is on the National Register of Historic Places...

 

[sfarson]

West of Colorado Springs, in the shadows of Pikes Peak, was (and is) the resort town of Manitou Springs. In the 1890's a special place to spend the night was the Baker House Hotel...

And today it remains a special place...

Further up the canyon towards Woodland Park was (and is) the resort community of Green Mountain Falls. Back in the 1890's the motorized means to get here was the Colorado Midland Railroad. Can see the train peeking out from the other side of the depot, along with in a way, a contrast with its own past... horses and a wagon to the right...

Autos now deliver residents and visitors with fishing poles to the same small lake...

Looking the other direction, note that spectacular Green Mountain Falls Hotel in the distance. Alas, it met the same fiery fate as many other notable wood structures did back then. FWIW, this is an excellent 1890's image...

 

[Busterlung]

D-Day

Great thread with some interesting photos.

Here's my contribution from a couple of years ago.........

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38923974@N07/5961640877/" title="July 2011 Motorcycle Tour - Day 11 - Dead Man's Corner, Normandy 2011 by Buster Lung, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6025/5961640877_cbd55bd9f5.jpg" width="500" height="258" alt="July 2011 Motorcycle Tour - Day 11 - Dead Man's Corner, Normandy 2011"></a>

 

[Busterlung]

A few more

Some more from Dorset, England.......


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38923974@N07/3987679642/" title="HMP Verne by Buster Lung, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2491/3987679642_1c590a8522.jpg" width="411" height="500" alt="HMP Verne"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38923974@N07/3986927379/" title="HMP Verne by Buster Lung, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2653/3986927379_f449370c88.jpg" width="411" height="500" alt="HMP Verne"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38923974@N07/3987680808/" title="HMP Verne by Buster Lung, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3447/3987680808_71d2c854a6.jpg" width="411" height="500" alt="HMP Verne"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38923974@N07/3986974885/" title="War Memorial Portland by Buster Lung, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2636/3986974885_59eab7b764.jpg" width="382" height="500" alt="War Memorial Portland"></a>

 

[sfarson]

Buster... Really excellent images, then and now, aligned extremely well. Thanks!

From a recent ride...

West of Denver, straddling a busy Interstate 70 is the old mining community of Dumont. Many fly past Dumont every day unaware of its past. Not much remains to tell some of the tales, but the backdrop of hills and mountains do remain as silent witnesses.

From 110 years ago. The old main street...

is today's frontage road alongside Interstate 70 (behind me)...

Turning the other direction, towards the south, the Dumont General Store, with the train depot in the background...

Today, a relocated Clear Creek alongside a sunken interstate, along with more forested fur on hilly slopes... yeah, a bit of a change...

 

[Richie3264]

I am loving this thread, please keep them coming

Richie

 

[Deleted account 210609001]

I only saw this thread the other day. Impossible not to follow it from start to finish - really good thread and, sfarson, must have taken you ages to track down some of those places.

(It also makes me consider Colorado as a holiday destination.)

Keep 'em coming!

 

[sfarson]

Hope you all are having a blessed holiday season. To be able to ride is a blessing, isn't it.

Wandered down a nearby county road loaded with old, decaying, and vanished ranches. One of the oldest images is from 130 years ago of Observatory Rock...

I could hardly figure out where the above was captured, so after going back and forth on the road, and not having access to the fenced off pastures, just paused here...

The Dunbar Ranch ranch late 1800's...

Guess I could have laid down on the ground to get the elevation better, but sometimes one only wants to put limited effort to an endeavor!

The Olney Ranch in the early 1900's...

Things have been swept up since then...

West and above Boulder, Colorado is Nederland (The flat meadows below the peaks reminded men from the Netherlands of their homeland). West and above Nederland is Eldora. This semi-ghost town has a historic hotel still standing.

60 years ago...

Today...

Also 60 years ago...

Today...

And 120 years ago, in 1890...

Today...

 

[Micky]

Fascinating
You're clearly putting some work in here

 

[Hare About]

Very much a labour (labor) of love, brilliant

 

[chad]

waiting for some more

 

[shuck raider]

waiting for some more

It's winter in Colorado, he'll be under three foot of snow

 

[Daisy Duke]

When I see old photos like those I always have a picture in my head of how it would be now, over developed, lots of peoples, traffic and noise everywhere. Seeing those photos with the old timber structures that look like they have been frozen in time are just wonderful, some of them spooky seeing the people in the ones you have merged together, almost like they are ghosts.

Absolutely love this thread, can't wait for more

 

[Noddy]

Sfarson, hiya. Just had another look through your pictures, great work.

You ok ? no posting from 12/12/12. Be nice to see some more

 

[Fanum]

Inspired by Herr Ronno's thread HERE today, I thought I'd have a little go at this

First attempt isn't great.......It's obvious that I don't quite have the angle correct to match up all the lines, plus of course the DOF and lens type will be very hard to match.
Anyway, I found a couple of sites with loads of piccies of Harwich way back when so I shall keep trying

The Kings Arms Hotel on the 27th June 1949

The Kings Aems Karaoke and Uber-chav pub today (it closed down two months ago)

And...........

(not happy with the result at all, but I'll keep trying

I've found a lot of piccies of the promenade, with a bandstand (covered) that I didn't even know had existed, so I'll do that one soon.....and Ha'penny pier, where we used to have WW2 Submarines based, there are some good shots down there as well