53 BEFORE AND AFTER photographs ⏳ (Historical photos) 

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I was born in 1952 in Midwest US. These photos reminded me of how simple and uncluttered places used to be. Made me surprisingly nostalgic and felt of how comfortable they seemed. Actually much more user friendly than today.

The real interesting thing is how many thing did NOT change.

I am absolutely in love with this channel. I love old photos vs new. The transformation vs the unchanged. They draw me in and I could study these pictures for hours. Who were the people in them? What were they like? Why did they change? Why did they keep the familiar? I just love them!

What is most interesting about these pictures is that these places were simply a part of the lives that experienced them. We look back in nostalgia because it seems almost magical that these people lived their lives in these frames frozen in time. One day, 100 years from now, people will look back at our own pictures and imagine the magic of the transition of time. To us, we are simply living out our own stories and existence.

That one of the trenches is the perfect example of the phrase. "Time heals all wounds, though it may leave scars."

I am 80 years old, and I really enjoyed your videos. I am also into photography so I enjoyed that as well. Thanks.

Thank you for the piece of history. What a great thing to say “my great grandfather and I were trained at the same station”. They must be smiling up there and be so proud of you.

Seeing the tree all grown at 1:01 is so cute

Looking at old pictures gives me goosebumps. Feels like going back to time and live those moments. Imagine in next 100 years people will have tons of pics to compare now and future. Life is a just like a flash of light we can feel that every passing moment will be history one day.

The one of you and your grandpa got me right in the feels...I even studied it for a long time looking to see which trees showed growth during the 73 years… I don’t know why, but it really made me emotional to see it this… Thank you for sharing.

This is absolutely beautiful. Very touching especially with the comparisons of you and your grandfather and great grandfather. Love the Volvo in San Francisco. What a brilliant video - thank you so much

Thank you for this. The pictures, then and now, coupled with the background music, make one nostalgic.

Love the pics with trees that survived many years. 1:02 is my fave; good job!

The Utrecht Canal mentioned at 1:54 is actually part of the "singel", a waterway around the old city. So it used to be water, but in the late sixties when more cars started to enter the city and a huge shopping mall was built, the city thought it was a good idea to turn part of the singel into a road. At first you could do highway speeds on it but that was quickly reduced to 70 km. 30 years later, the city changed it mind. The mall and whole area where redesigned and it was decided that the pretty much useless "highway" should be part of the singel again. Work finished about a year ago.

Thank so very much for not switching the photos too quickly. Made it so much easier to enjoy ❤❤

OMG! I am SO SUBSCRIBED!!! This work is absolutely MOVONG! I am standing here (yes, standing at my desk), dumbfounded, lost for words here at this moment... And the shot with the Tree in Maui, not knowing your Grandfather took it during the War? WOW!!! YOU ARE AMAZING!

I don’t know why, but seeing the older pictures makes me wonder why we call what we have today “progress”. Some of those look so much more inviting going back in time, especially in Toronto.

What's striking is how much remains from the past. The photos of The Shambles and of the Flatiron building in New York are nearly unchanged. I like the picture of you and your grandfather in Tokyo and that the tree to your left survived and grew from a sapling to a big tree. I like the pictures also of you and your great grandfather which I'm sure would have made him proud.

Just incredible. Looking at these pictures from then to now is like going back in time.

How captivating. I have many photos of my old neighborhood while I was growing up. And I must say that in the 50 years since I lived there, nothing has really changed all that much. The old theater we once went to and paid .25c to watch double features on Saturdays is still here only now it's a Playhouse, the same buildings, same apartments, same homes... even our old house is exactly the same. Not even the siding has been changed... the 6-foot privacy fence my parents put up is still standing, and the old Oak tree in the backyard is still there as are the flowerbeds my mother planted herself. All of the people after us kept it all up. It's amazing how some things change so much and others remain frozen in time. Time has passed, I am much older now and have children and grandchildren of my own now, and yet whenever I want to revisit my old hometown I'm taken back to the days when all the children I grew up with played Hide and Seek after dark in the summer, played softball in the field behind my best friends apartment building, we rode our bikes and walked every inch of that neighbor as kids. Now several generations of children have done the same. How nostalgic is that? These photos show just how industrial man is, and our ability to rebuild after times of tragedy, how we expand our world to accommodate the growing population. I wonder what our old photos will reveal in another 100 years.

I always love to see how well dressed and how well mannered people were in the 20s, 30, to the 50s, 60s. The war photos were pretty eerie. It's also unreal how some places have grown in just 20 years. Like Dubai, such a gorgeous place now.

The arctic photos at 1:30 were painful to look at

It's amazing looking at photos like this. It reminds you that however life changes, some things stay the same. Love it. Thanks for sharing.

Some, just amazing transformations. Thoroughly enjoyed the comparisons.

I really appreciate the side-by-side comparison. A real visual of changes time brings.

There are a number of Before and After videos on YT. This is the best I have seen. You have captured the implacable nature of "progress" while illustrating the transience of our lives. I found it quite moving. Well done.

The picture at 0:52 is really cool for several reasons. The big difference is obviously the skyscrapers in the present. But there are also more subtle differences such as the trees. Like the big tree in the foreground on the left, notice how small it was 73 years ago.

Captivating. Excellent work. Photos are well paired with the music

Love looking at old photos of places and seeing how they have changed over the years.

Really loved many of the photographs and thank you for sharing. Lovely memories for the family pictures. For my-self and having lived on this earth for a long time 80 plus years it is quite worrying for the future ? when you see the expansion of man and the loss of so much habitat. They tell me it's progress? is it really not too sur about that. Fortuantly I will keep my wonderful memories of times gone by. God bless the future generation and please look after your planet, it not like a house you can not move too another one.

Incredible, thank you for posting!

This is amazing!! Thank you for this comparison video. 😊 Happy new year 🥳

nice job, and thanks for leaving the photos up so i can go back and forth on them, noticing the differences. some videos flash the 2 pictures up so fast, i cant tell the differences in them

Please note: 1:54 Utrecht, the Netherlands, They Converted The Highway To A Canal: Back in the '70s most of the historic city center of Utrecht was demolished to make way for some crappy shopping mall (Hoog Catharijne). Among the many things that had to go, there was the old city canal. It was converted into a highway through the city center. After years of struggle they finaly decided to restore one the many scars left in the '70s, the once canal that was converted into a highway was reconverted into its original state.

Thank you for sharing! This is super interesting & amazing indeed!

Fascinating my brother. I really apreciated your video. Thanks

Very interesting video up until about 10:50 , then it just became about random suburban streets in Toronto.

1:07 my favorite because it's personal and besides the buildings you can also see the tree that grew much bigger

Very well put together! I particularly liked the old and new pictures merged into one picture. This was very relaxing, wowing and sad at the same time. I miss the good ole days when there was less concrete.

Loved the nostalgic trip back! Born in the late 50's it brought back a lot of memories! We seemed to dwell in Toronto a lot but it looked the same to me!

I like the care you took to get the "now" pictures framed nearly exactly to how the "then" pictures were framed. Fantastic job.

Most of places seem to look better "earlier" than "now" (excluding the war pics, of course). That's great you have photos of your grandfather and made by him - you're lucky!

Pretty cool. I love these vids. And great music too!! Thanks

Very Nostalgic !!! Great Work

The trenches photos were so interesting to see, I would've never thought of how it would evolve

Incredible and so greatly appreciated. Thank you for all that you do😊

Just found this today in 2023. Without a doubt one of the most enjoyable videos I've ever watched. Excellent music accompaniment.

The music stresses the melancholly your pics show and brought me many a tears to see Victoria Park Ave where I spent many years of my youth. Great memories too. Thnx, buddy.

the entire experience was my favorite. Thank you for sharing these treasures with the world, much appreciated!

I want to thank men for working their backs off for building this world ❤️

Incredible! Love it!

These are truly amazing pictures,memories of yesteryear, and now. I love history. Thank you for showing these.

I like them being side by side, a great way to see the differences.

LA was one of my favorites. Love the early beginnings of towns. Just a few buildings here and there. I love history. In all our towns someone was there before us. Even with buildings dated 1889 or 1920...there was probably a wooded building before that and before that perhaps native Americans. Its just neat to think about and seeing the remnants of a bygone era scattered throughout town. The hall marks and even tool marks on structures by folks long gone. And yet we enjoy the foundations they laid so many years ago.

Thank you for putting this together. Tugs at the heart and the closest we can get to time travel.

Great video and watching this from the UK. I'm not if things have got better or worse throughout the years. Good to see the Shambles in York not change at all. If you do this kind of video again, places like Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge have hardly changed.

Loved looking at these before and after pictures. I especially loved the ones comparing the grandson to his grandfather or great grandfather. Those were so interesting!

Simply amazing how much things change and stay the same at the same time.

The pictures are amazing 👏Thanks for sharing ❤

excellent collection and effort to bring back old memories. Good to see the preservation of old buildings in impeccable form with minimum interference. Well done. Keep it up.

Amazing photos and nicely done. I can’t get enough of now and then.

This is fabulous, thank you for posting it

I love these then and now photos! So awesome! Owner of this RU-vid does such a wonderful and professional job at it! Keep em coming

Thankyou for this. Interesting to see. 👍🙂

These are incredible to see. I truly enjoyed these, thank you.

I don't like the blended photos; I'd rather see the side-by-side photos.

Absolutely brilliant . Thank you

Love the music. Good work!

I was born in Missouri USA in 1947 so many of these photos look the way things did when I was a kid. I love the nostalgia and a way look back at how things used to be. Seems much friendlier and less sterile than today.

Thank you for putting these comparisons together. What strikes me is how much more SPACE there seemed to be this lifetime ago. There must be some scientific behavioral studies done on this topic. If someone knows, I'd like to know too.

Great photos before and after! Thank you!

Excellent, Real hard work

My favorite one(s) Toronto , more recently compared to 1959. I could relate more, thinking about the changes in the city in which I live. I was 8 in '59.. downtown was thriving.. not so much now with urban or should I say suburban sprawl. Most of the buildings still stand but are occupied by fast food places, a few trendy shops, and lofts for lawyers renters and massage therapists.. sadly, quite a few sit empty. The times they are a'changin. But I can walk the streets and remember - or think I do, what it was like! Thanks for these b4 and after images.

I don't know why I'm feeling nostalgia even though I never been to any of these places

idk why but old pics feel so calm and relaxing

when i watch this i remember that i can visit in past and see all those , just being so thankful to God that we have ability to visit our past. it motivates me to meditate even more.

The shots with the family member were very cool. The Toronto portion made me realize the bleak almost institutional architecture I have always associated with the 60's apparently actually gained it's foothold in the 1950's...interesting! There are thousands of those little brick homes throught the Chicago suburbs looking very much the same as the day they were built.

I think it's important that we preserve old buildings and monuments so people in the future can experience and see them... like us today

I'm currently making a video where I drove a portion of route 66 in AZ and I did a few similar shots of a few of the cities...I love looking at the old vs current or fairly current photos...especially if I've taken the current ones. This was cool!

Just shows how things went from Good to Worse in many of the pictures over the years.

I love how historic cities like San Francisco NYC, and London are. It’s like a time capsule like they’ve never changed

The Arctic one and the Berlin one gave me chills - contrasting emotions though! Excellent compilation.

Great video. Thank you.

The Nostalgia😔❤

I love history. This is one of the most awesome, interesting videos that I've seen.

1:23 The Arctic photo is just plain scary.

FANTASTIC Video!!! Greetings from Switzerland

nice work, thanks !

That photo of Utrecht. They did convert a road into a canal. But what is not known is that in the late 60's they converted a canal into that road. It was a full 360.

What a blast from the past. I grew up in the Eglinton and Victoria Park area, even had an apartment at Biggin Court. Certainly wasn't expecting that trip down memory lane from the beginning of this video! Terrific, thank you!

Excellent job!

This is just so fantastic to see .I really enjoy the old compared to the now..Why is it so amazing ,i dont know but it makes you sentimental ,especially when you see a tree as a youngin then the later photo shows it fully grown..Perfect thanks for this video

Well produced. The choice of music complemented the pace of the scene timings which were skilfully edited. A very thoughtful production.

6:55 the natives omg

Such captivating images, I can't stop watching! I like the music choice, too.

Great work. Keep up

this actually makes me feel alive. i have a bit of eocd and can’t stop thinking of those who were here before us.

11 minutes of interesting historical photos, followed by 7+ minutes of photos of Victoria Park Avenue which isn't really interesting to anyone who has never been there. Probably should have been two different videos.

how simple old time was.really love your video.