Before And After Pics That Show How Times Have Changed 

The ones that made me feel bad were the gardens in Afghanistan and downtown Baghdad. Very tragic.

whats sad is you see other countries like the netherlands, japan and others developing beautifully and then you see the usa going backwards. The politicians in this country for the last 50 years have completely failed us with their willing to sell us out for other countries to prosper.

3:12 - It's always so sad to see then vs now from Afganistan... then women were free, wore whatever they wanted to, now they have no rights and have to cover literally every inch of their bodies.

There’s something unbearably sad about those derelict open-air swimming pools. They were so popular, filled with bright colours, fun and laughter and the vivacity of life. Now they look like a cemetery of all the hopes and dreams of those young people of the forties and fifties.

Some of this is great, but a lot is depressing to see.

Impressive images, what hurts the most as an architect are the beautiful buildings, especially in the United States, that today were demolished to give life to useless car parks, as well as several streets of cities that today disappeared, impressive.

A lot of them makes me sad. You cant stop the spread of humanity I suppose, but some of these places look like they should have stayed untouched by man...

We're well and truly on the down side of the curve now.

Thank you for showing us both sides of the coin of change!

Incredible how some of the American cities have just disappeared in to waste, roads or terrible new builds.

Loved seeing the restorations! I’m a huge fan of historical architecture, so the ones that portrayed decay or demolition were hard to watch. 😢

Wow… Baghdad certainly took a step backwards. Interesting collection, Thank you. 🙋🏼

Afghanistan and Baghdad look like completely different places in the ‘before’ photos

Do detroit, chicago, or new york city before and after....makes you wanna cry

My city recently restored the old public swimming pool from 1955 to its original glory. It is beautiful.

Is there anything left in Kansas City?

Beautiful Poland, hope to visit there one day....😊

The song at 4:05 sounds like a nursery rhyme. It disrupted the nostalgia trip.

That tree with the canoe hole was aweinspiring and humbling. I had no idea that was a method utilized, but of course it makes such sense. And how different from the industrial fast af production of today. The person starting the job was very literally thinking several generations ahead, to a canoe being made decades after their own death. In my country there was a similar custom going back to the pre-viking era, with manipulating young trees to achieve the right shapes for the long-ships. In the 16th century though, it was done on state scale for the military industry. Back then ships were made of oak, King Wasa (the founder of modern sweden) had huge plantations of oak made, for the sake of the ships of the 20th-21st century war fleet... Ooops, this got long, but, interesting subject me thinks!

A real change to see the restorations and other improvements from then to now instead of the usual depressing abandonment that is often posted. 😊

LESSON - if we quit making excuses, quit whining and just keep at it, over decades we can create something beautiful

Nice to see my hometown Düsseldorf appearing in this video! I still know the old street along the bank of the Rhine, drove there when I was a young guy. Now the street is in a tunnel below the new area created there. Nice place to go!

At first I thought the thumbnail was sad, but then I thought, Nature reclaimed the place! It was beautiful before and after!

The Crooked House is a shortish stroll (less than an hour even if you take it slow) from where I live. Interesting place.

The 2 Kansas city pictures were really interesting. I wonder if there are many pictures of the same places in between those two times even from a different angle.... I wonder how it progressed from downtown to abandoned to empty....

Thank you, I enjoy the then-and-now photos.

The irony of the Pines photo is the first pic is the reason for the second. They destroyed a gorgeous natural habitat for short time gain. Now it’s going to cost a fortune to clear out the hazardous crap. There’s already a small fortune spent clear a lot of it nearby. Given how the amount of horrible shortcuts and dangerous materials were used in the 50s I wonder how prevalent the same situation is for other derelict buildings shown.

Extraordinary pictures. Very appreciate it!

WOW!!! Very cool, thank you!!!

Really good photography

Really fascinating how things change.

Anybody care to explain what the heck happened to Kansas ? I understand the de-industrialization of Detroit and the ensuing urban decay, but Kansas just like 'vanished' !!? No abandonments, no derelicts, just entire blocks knocked down and neatly tidied up.

Very interesting. But sad to see Lake Mead with this low waterlevel.

Just another reminder that everything changes, it's just a matter of time. Sometimes it's sad, sometimes wonderful, but most of the time it's neither, just a natural process.

Everything changes. When the auto companies moved out of Detroit, all the jobs went with them. I don't know why the other areas deteriorated. I recently visited a town I use to live in 30 years ago. It was horrible. It was such a nice little town, not any more. I took the first road going out of town. I want to remember it as it was when I lived there. I love the restoration pictures. I often though about restoring a house, but I don't have that kind of money.

THAT was awesome and in some cases very sad. 😢 Thank you!

Another very telling set of photos would be of Havana , Cuba. You can tell how beautiful the buildings and parks were but now, lots of the parks are fenced off and the buildings have been left to deteriorate although the single family homes are now made into apartments for an untold number of people.

Really interesting!

Thank you for creating this. One conclusion I can make is that cars (and the roads they require) are ugly and destroy pedestrian life, especially in high density cities.

That was awesome thanks I enjoyed it.

Some improvement some devastation Wow

Is it me... or was the pics in Baghdad and Afghanistan seem like theyre going backwards?

Nice and interesting video. Thanks for posting!

Sadly the Crooked House - a listed building - was illegally demolished this year, 2023. Still. Not sure what is going to happen to it. Thanks for the pics, I am pleased to see that things have improved in most cases. Saddened by some, but a valuable insight.

Some photos, i couldn't tell the old from the new. I am 80 and losing it, i know.

@7:28, amazing how Bagdad looked more modern and much cleaner in 1967 than today. A barbaric theocracy will do that to a place.

Then and Now (or so) WOW!

4:42 - The Crooked House made headlines news after is was destroyed in a suspected arson attack by the new owners. They then demolished it 48 hours later. The Crooked House pub, in Himley near Dudley, burned down on 5 August 2023 just two weeks after it was sold to new owners. Three men, aged 33, 51, and 66, have since been arrested and bailed. The local council in 2024 have ordered the new owners of the 260 year old pub, known as "Britain's wonkiest pub", that is must be rebuilt back to it's original state within 3 years.

The first pick is the old jail in Salem, Massachusetts that was turned into condos.

Impressive how they rebuilt the section in Japan, from what looks like ruins from the Great Tsunami of 2011…

Some improvements others not!

Dusts of time… Live yours before it all flies away!

That dame one speaks volumes

I love to see old buildings become new again.

0:50 - now if only Ireland would do something like that with Powerscourt.

0:05 isn't that in Salem, Massachusetts?

The Glynne Arms otherwise known as the crooked house was demolished without permission last august 23.

Interesting, but what I noticed. Almost all pictures where the past looks better then the present is in the US, Africa or Near Asia. The picture that show that an improvement of life has happened, communities are better off that in the past are from EUROPE. It’s just a thought.

Yeah at 7:20 Mansfield Ohio where I live now and it is even worse in 2023

Nicely done, but unfortunately the image change is too quick. There isn't enough time to compare "before and now" and read the text. It's a shame, slower would be better.

Sadly much of America is in this condition because of wasteful spending! We seem to spend on everything but what’s important! ✝️

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Lake Mead photo at 1:30. The next great war may involve access to fresh water. Scary to think about.

Interesting how some are rehabilitation, some are overpopulation, and a few are decrepitude.

Who wrote the song?

2 minutes in why is this making me so sad...

Lake Mead looks like Lake Dead now. All that water…

Ford has/is renovating the old train station in Detroit and making it the site of their electric vehicle research.

Oh crap i used to live in Lawton ok we moved in 2019 lol

Whatever happened to Kansas City??

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Cool video, but the music was hard to take... Stopped watching 1/2 way through.

world sadness

Urban progress? I think not.

Scrolls way too fast. No time to study the photos.

Come on, a slideshow on youtube?? REALLY????

Music 😂, had to mute…

That’s strange 3:57 that a church would wind up in the middle of a body of water like that. That’s quite the rise in 50 years or so.. even the background looks different 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

The spinning effects are horrible. Don't do it again, please.

I appreciate the hard work but the transitions are terrible 🙁

Wow! Those Third World nations sure know how to change things.☹

Thanks for using my photo without permission or credit. 🙃

Very interesting pictures but the video was a pain to my eyes to watch because of those terrible TRANSITIONS and bounching texts. Please don’t use them and your videos look professional. Thanks.

Interesting video. Shame it was spoiled by the atrocious and annoying music

What Goes Up Must Come Down or Be Renovated...

Do you have evidence that Elsie allcock was born there?

The pictures are great, but it is too fast. One cannot watch and read and enjoy ! Pitty !

5:38 alternative history, where Japan invaded United States and occupied Alaska ?

Evidence why America will never have the history and culture of Europe.

too fast, hardly time to take it in.

music is awful

0:38 Wiki page section on the event that led to that disaster: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamisanriku#2011_earthquake_and_tsunami_disaster

Why waste so much empty screen space with these tiny pictures?

Could not work out the point?