Found this pretty cool four part series on then and now pictures of my home town. In part three the picture that was an old grocery store is only two houses up from the house I grew up in. I loved the shots of the Miami&Erie canal and Fort Hamilton hospital. I found it very interesting, to bad it's such a massive E36 M3 hole now. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm actually a little homesick.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_8Iz8Vskda8
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bjU7FHUiPnU
I'll have to wait until after work to watch, but I bet it is cool. I'm from Eaton, one county North. Lived in Fairfield for a few years after college. Dated a couple girls from Middletown. Had a college roomie from New Miami. There is a lot of neat history in southwest Ohio.
I watched the first two and liked it even though I have never been to Hamilton, OH.
The video is not a story but rather they take an old photo and then lay that old photo over a current photo of the same location and perspective. Pretty cool.
Didn't get to watch the video, but those types of things are always cool and stuff I love to see. Before we moved a few years ago, the town in PA we lived in was tiny one horse sleepy rural suburb...I think it officially has something like 1200 people (though there are more people living around the area). Before we moved, my wife found a book in a local shop on Main Street that was a history of the town, showing pictures and stories of what it looked like in the 19th and early 20th century. I thought it was really awesome to see.
That guy certainly seems to love Hamilton and it's history. From the time I was a small child I always hated it. I couldn't wait to get out. But those pictures of such familiar sites, it feels like a part of me. They are burned into my psyche. Even now, if you can look past the filth and decay, you can tell that it used to be a very nice town. You certainly don't see that type of architecture out here in Texas.
My town is much like yours. I have lived here most of my life. So I can remember how things were in my child hood.
There was a grocery store in every block, almost. None now.
Small gas stations proliferated. gone.
Our main street has a lot of the late 1880's architecture.
I haven't watched the videos yet, but am looking forward to it. I suspect it will be similar to where I grew up. I think the town peaked somewhere in the 1950's and has been on a decline since then. When I was growing up there in the 80's it was not clear to me that things were decaying. Fast forward another 30 years and it is too obvious not to see now.
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