53 BEFORE AND AFTER photographs ⏳ (Historical photos)

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  • @40HistoricalFiles
    @40HistoricalFiles  Před 2 lety +100

    👇👇👇 If you liked this video, don't miss the ones below 👇👇👇
    🕰️ 34 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEN AND NOW ➡️ t.ly/LHwpS
    🕰️ 102 PHOTOS YOU NEED TO SEE ➡️ t.ly/YS_t
    🕰️ 35 MUST-SEE RARE PICTURES ➡️ t.ly/qNBs

    • @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741
      @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 Před 2 lety +2

      Repent to Jesus Christ
      “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
      ‭‭1 John‬ ‭1:9‬ ‭NIV‬‬
      Jh

    • @TravelTourTaste
      @TravelTourTaste Před 2 lety

      Will definitely check them out many thanks my friend.

    • @goldberg72
      @goldberg72 Před 2 lety +1

      who is the pianist who plays the second bach game towards the end?

    • @jeffreycoffey4204
      @jeffreycoffey4204 Před rokem

      it has some funny stream vibration and it's very annoying.i wish I could understand what it's all about .it's ruining the experience...

    • @jd3422
      @jd3422 Před rokem

      @@goldberg72 Hans Palsson

  • @suzukibn1131
    @suzukibn1131 Před 2 lety +932

    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.

    • @Justin60693
      @Justin60693 Před 2 lety +37

      whaaaaaaaaat da fuqqqqqqqqqq ur 70?????????
      bruhhhh this dude is capping sooo hard

    • @Justin60693
      @Justin60693 Před 2 lety +7

      its actually funny lolol

    • @jd-ls4tk
      @jd-ls4tk Před 2 lety +18

      Yeah I like the "after" picture where there is an adult bookstore added. If only there had been someone stealing someone's package and setting a cop on fire it would've summed up modern day society

    • @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741
      @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 Před 2 lety +23

      Repent to Jesus Christ
      “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
      ‭‭1 John‬ ‭1:9‬ ‭NIV‬‬
      Jh

    • @jd-ls4tk
      @jd-ls4tk Před 2 lety +1

      ok

  • @PilpelAvital
    @PilpelAvital Před 2 lety +1295

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

  • @dxfactorial
    @dxfactorial Před rokem +30

    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.

    • @godkingemperor9782
      @godkingemperor9782 Před rokem

      I don't think people would look at the 2000s 2010s and 2020s as a magical time that they would wish they could go back to. woke ideology has ruined it all. 50s 60s 70 80 and 90s where something else. if someone ever invents a time machine I think they would skip pass until all woke ideology is finally defeated.

  • @notpostingx5035
    @notpostingx5035 Před rokem +5

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

  • @Guardian-of-Light137
    @Guardian-of-Light137 Před 2 lety +44

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

    • @HansDunkelberg1
      @HansDunkelberg1 Před 2 lety

      Yes, the very planet has gotten scars, in WWI. Let's hope they won't reincarnate in too spectacular a way!

    • @Dian-kb2hg
      @Dian-kb2hg Před rokem

      Elegedly...and just as quick cause more and worse.😶😓🧘🙈🙉🙊

    • @Blue2crows
      @Blue2crows Před rokem +4

      That picture made me think of all the blood shed for war. Mankind has not learned from it yet.

    • @Guardian-of-Light137
      @Guardian-of-Light137 Před rokem +3

      @@Blue2crows Until Jesus returns. I doubt people ever will. *sigh* Ya think the earth is stained with blood now. The tribulation will make ww2 look like a summer swim party in comparison.

    • @rmp7400
      @rmp7400 Před rokem +1

      @Guardian
      If healing had happened,
      the Rothschilds would not now be so successfully engineering their wwiii through the Ukraine.

  • @MyMbarr
    @MyMbarr Před 2 lety +44

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

  • @tamarakelli687
    @tamarakelli687 Před rokem +52

    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!

    • @rw8733
      @rw8733 Před rokem +2

      A really great channel 👏

    • @ThygeRRR
      @ThygeRRR Před rokem +4

      You are right... I love just to study every inch of difference, and could look at those pictures for hours.. so much history, and when there is a car passing by, or people around, just wondering what their lives were about, what happened to them, most of them not here anymore.. fascinating

    • @tamarakelli687
      @tamarakelli687 Před rokem +1

      @@ThygeRRR Yesss!

    • @Living_Thingz
      @Living_Thingz Před 11 měsíci

      Till when you are going to keep exploring photos and people or you gonna move on

    • @josearenas5328
      @josearenas5328 Před 7 měsíci

      Will you please 🙏🏻 marri me and we can have a few children’s together for live so happy!???❤️‍🔥

  • @JJJ-mq5ok
    @JJJ-mq5ok Před rokem +13

    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.

  • @awesomethings3489
    @awesomethings3489 Před 2 lety +73

    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.

    • @whburton1
      @whburton1 Před rokem

      deep ROFLMAO

    • @omc8872
      @omc8872 Před rokem +3

      The people of the future are now looking us in pictures...and toons of vvideos from ticktock...moving head side to side...

    • @Exited_video
      @Exited_video Před rokem +1

      We are future and history both

    • @yinyang9770
      @yinyang9770 Před rokem

      10:37 poor kids 😢 they just look so happy

    • @funky_cartel097
      @funky_cartel097 Před rokem

      ​@@omc8872 lmao

  • @tundrajt
    @tundrajt Před 2 lety +161

    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.

    • @user-sc4jz8vr3o
      @user-sc4jz8vr3o Před 2 lety +9

      A simpler time, everything moved at a slower pace.

    • @smf5576
      @smf5576 Před 2 lety +13

      @@user-sc4jz8vr3o That's because back then, they didn't feel the need to be at their next destination within the next damn second.

    • @sren.matthiesen9270
      @sren.matthiesen9270 Před 2 lety +15

      Time and effort was put into making buildings look nice and unique, nowadays they spam, copy - paste the same ugly steel towers all over.

    • @ivanoffw
      @ivanoffw Před 2 lety +6

      The "progress" in Toronto was, if they did not have an ugly apartment building yet, they would build one. If it already existed, they kept it around for today.

    • @gottasay4766
      @gottasay4766 Před 2 lety +11

      Vaccines, antibiotics, heart catherizations, heat bypass and valve procedures, reduced smoking, increased birth survival… such a meager list to such a great list of the things that have come with “progress”. Progress could be managed better especially on a sociological level but I’m not sure which of the good things that come from progress I would given up for a simpler time.

  • @clairefordzetterstrom9973

    The Nostalgia😔❤

  • @ChakatNightspark
    @ChakatNightspark Před rokem +13

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

    • @okjeffy6581
      @okjeffy6581 Před rokem +1

      To me, things went from Good To Better. Things are much easier now. Sure, i, myself some long for the past, like me listening To Christian music in my dads car in 2000, that agricultural field Trip I went to in 2002, meeting Riley for the first time in 2006, starting high school back in 2011, watching the new show TLH in 2016, heck I even feel nostalgic for 2021.

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme Před 3 měsíci

      @@okjeffy6581 How is a great big block of flats or skyscraper in the way better?

  • @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl
    @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl Před 2 lety +30

    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.

    • @HansDunkelberg1
      @HansDunkelberg1 Před 2 lety +2

      Perhaps that one made you emotional because you saw how nature continues to develop on a basis of the ever-same rules, knowing how many artificially man-made events have happened within those 73 years. Like the trees have grown, so has the population of the United States and of other countries around the Pacific Ocean.

    • @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl
      @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl Před 2 lety +2

      @@HansDunkelberg1 yeah I think you’re right...about the ever same theory...I also get emotional when I see things like a building that my grandmother and I walked past 50 years ago, is still there-even though all around it has changed. Thanks for the insight.

    • @HansDunkelberg1
      @HansDunkelberg1 Před 2 lety

      @@JF-NYC-NJ-Girl You begin to wonder, in such cases, what time altogether is. You seem to experience islands of time. When the inhabitants of such a building continue to live in their old habits, they read the same dates in their calendars like people who more strongly adapt to changing customs. Meanwhile, already the sort of calendars they use - perhaps, e.g., such still made of paper - conjure up different feelings than the modern, electronic ones.
      The Pacific Ocean affords that sort of synchronicities between different eras to an unusually strong degree. Modern, European civilization has developed at the northwestern end of the Old World, while the Pacific, with its islands mainly located in its own southwest and hence in the southeast of the Old World, has all of a sudden - especially during World War II - been inundated by 20th-century technology from its Japanese northwest and shortly after this, durably and also inwardly on a more modern level, from its US-American northeast. Noticing how time is relative, in the resulting cultural collisions, your attention will again and again be drawn also to certain other, more general questions of how the entire cosmos of your feelings comes into existence.

    • @user-ex1hp8ph3p
      @user-ex1hp8ph3p Před rokem

      😉☝️👏👍

    • @haruyu123
      @haruyu123 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@HansDunkelberg1 Thats not time but culture and technology. 2000 years of ancient Egypt all feels kinda same

  • @pewpewcat7679
    @pewpewcat7679 Před 2 lety +13

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

  • @RichieRouge206
    @RichieRouge206 Před rokem +8

    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

  • @Litephaze2000
    @Litephaze2000 Před rokem +2

    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!

  • @gregb6469
    @gregb6469 Před 2 lety +29

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

  • @_Peremalfait
    @_Peremalfait Před 2 lety +343

    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.

    • @jesusislord6545
      @jesusislord6545 Před 2 lety +10

      Repent to Jesus Christ!
      “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”
      ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:4‬ ‭NIV‬‬
      M

    • @VelocityOne1
      @VelocityOne1 Před 2 lety +6

      @@jesusislord6545 no

    • @City1Tiger
      @City1Tiger Před 2 lety +4

      @@jesusislord6545 repent to allah

    • @ERTChimpanzee
      @ERTChimpanzee Před 2 lety +10

      @@jesusislord6545 Science is far superior. Deal with it!

    • @Dian-kb2hg
      @Dian-kb2hg Před rokem +1

      The flatiron...is a bit scary...

  • @dennis300cr
    @dennis300cr Před rokem +4

    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!

  • @MAWA2024
    @MAWA2024 Před rokem +1

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

  • @paulvandeheuvel9741
    @paulvandeheuvel9741 Před 2 lety +166

    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.

    • @40HistoricalFiles
      @40HistoricalFiles  Před 2 lety +11

      Thank you so much for sharing that fact with us, Paul!

    • @mothball5425
      @mothball5425 Před rokem +3

      I'm glad to hear it, I visited utrecht 2007, I really liked it, apart from the area round the shopping centre.

    • @lifeisbeautiful7824
      @lifeisbeautiful7824 Před rokem

      Nature will restore what man changes.

    • @aaaaaaaard9586
      @aaaaaaaard9586 Před rokem

      Must've been horribly hot and noisy there in the summer next to the river of tarmac

    • @thomasov2004
      @thomasov2004 Před rokem

      Did they also remove the road? Or just let the water flood it again?

  • @StudioDaVeed
    @StudioDaVeed Před 2 lety +46

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

  • @pozzee2809
    @pozzee2809 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @asimb0mb
    @asimb0mb Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @mrheyfuckoff1
    @mrheyfuckoff1 Před 2 lety +17

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

  • @daricetaylor786
    @daricetaylor786 Před rokem +205

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

    • @Rigel_Chiokis
      @Rigel_Chiokis Před rokem +29

      The youtuber didn't take care. Many other people took the photos.

    • @M-M-M-M
      @M-M-M-M Před rokem +5

      @@Rigel_Chiokis exactly

    • @ville666sora
      @ville666sora Před rokem +9

      These photos were probably nabbed from some reddit thread lol.

    • @Agent-ie3uv
      @Agent-ie3uv Před 11 měsíci

      You are so gullible lol 🤣🙄

  • @alexanderleach3365
    @alexanderleach3365 Před rokem +2

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

  • @GTXBOY1650
    @GTXBOY1650 Před rokem +1

    idk why but old pics feel so calm and relaxing

  • @lolaneal583
    @lolaneal583 Před 2 lety +46

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

  • @frankierzucekjr
    @frankierzucekjr Před rokem +36

    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.

    • @amandaleonsteiner7504
      @amandaleonsteiner7504 Před rokem +2

      Right! We live in idiocracy at the moment.

    • @Brainbaskit
      @Brainbaskit Před rokem +5

      "well mannered" ???

    • @tyronehtml
      @tyronehtml Před 11 měsíci +3

      90% of this is all the ugly apartment building at one time was an beautiful area. Just like in St Petersburg.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay Před 11 měsíci

      Thats Oil wealth for you

    • @FeelItRising
      @FeelItRising Před měsícem

      Dubai? gorgeous? all that is wrong with the world

  • @Del-Scent
    @Del-Scent Před 9 měsíci +2

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

  • @kariblackwood5811
    @kariblackwood5811 Před rokem +5

    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.

    • @Opurra
      @Opurra Před 5 měsíci

      I found those the most difficult to see. I’m LD and couldn’t distinguish the difference.

  • @dmitryruskin6795
    @dmitryruskin6795 Před rokem +14

    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!

  • @Motochick203
    @Motochick203 Před 2 lety +33

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

    • @heneralantonioluna8725
      @heneralantonioluna8725 Před 2 lety +2

      And women dude. My gramma used to be working in an architectural firm for 50 years, 40 years in buildings and 10 years supervising

    • @marcvandervelsen
      @marcvandervelsen Před 2 lety +7

      @@heneralantonioluna8725 It's mostly built by man. That is a fact of life. Even today, men craft the world around us. A little bit appreciation is welcome!

    • @isabellavalencia8026
      @isabellavalencia8026 Před 2 lety

      And women too i hope

    • @Motochick203
      @Motochick203 Před 2 lety +1

      @@isabellavalencia8026 Us Women did not build/invent cars,buildings, roads, bridges etc. they did not BUILD the world we live in today.

    • @isabellavalencia8026
      @isabellavalencia8026 Před 2 lety

      @@Motochick203 you are flat out wrong about that! There have been women carpenters, engineers,when all men were away at war who do you think did those jobs? Educate yourself you look stupid

  • @mtmccornack
    @mtmccornack Před rokem +1

    @ 6:52 - I was hired to shoot a "green screen photobooth" in this exact Missoula location for a 5k fun run, and used a similar B&W photo to tie the historical image to the modern location. I almost spit out my coffee when I saw your submission.

  • @talcfrj
    @talcfrj Před rokem +2

    0:55 The bush to the left becomes a tree and witnesses two generations of a family. 😎

  • @Europa1749
    @Europa1749 Před 2 lety +22

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

  • @mickeyduke1910
    @mickeyduke1910 Před 2 lety +4

    If I had my way if go back to the 40s and 50s and stay there

  • @bamaguy5000
    @bamaguy5000 Před rokem +2

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

  • @Meriale46
    @Meriale46 Před 4 měsíci

    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.

  • @Shivagaming7746
    @Shivagaming7746 Před 2 lety +14

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

    • @HansDunkelberg1
      @HansDunkelberg1 Před 2 lety +1

      Of course you feel the nostalgia because you know that it has been similar at places you are familiar with.

  • @daniellecarriere758
    @daniellecarriere758 Před 2 lety +156

    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.

    • @hella87.7fm5
      @hella87.7fm5 Před 2 lety +7

      Exactly what I was thinking! Many of the photos looked the same.

    • @TheWizardOfTheFens
      @TheWizardOfTheFens Před 2 lety +3

      In complete agreement!

    • @josephaumann849
      @josephaumann849 Před 2 lety +3

      Took the words right out of my mouth!

    • @grneal26
      @grneal26 Před 2 lety +3

      totally agree. they must be from Toronto or something.

    • @johnmarasigan5238
      @johnmarasigan5238 Před 2 lety +5

      Thank you for saying this, I was literally saying this was great until we got to Toronto...lol

  • @vince8691
    @vince8691 Před rokem +1

    Some, just amazing transformations. Thoroughly enjoyed the comparisons.

  • @USMCbratt
    @USMCbratt Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @jimdimitrios1
    @jimdimitrios1 Před 2 lety +28

    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

  • @NARKISDUDE
    @NARKISDUDE Před 2 lety +10

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

  • @nyredneck63
    @nyredneck63 Před rokem

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

  • @cathyvickers9063
    @cathyvickers9063 Před rokem +5

    Makes me sad so many of the family photos of my childhood home vanished during the move to central Ohio! I had an opportunity to revisit the old hometown a number of years ago, & took pix of my childhood home. The only things subsequent homeowners have added is expanding the bathroom over the pantry (t'was very cramped!) & finally, finally, *finally* someone put a railing on the long front steps!!! (I lived in hilly southern Ohio.)
    In winter, I used to have to sit on the steps & scoot my way down, step by step. Any other Midwesterners have childhood memories like that?

  • @shablabh
    @shablabh Před rokem +9

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

    • @rmp7400
      @rmp7400 Před rokem

      @Shablah
      I find it much more disturbing than interesting...

  • @vmkkdt1729
    @vmkkdt1729 Před 2 lety +11

    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.

  • @GJM866
    @GJM866 Před rokem

    Incredible, thank you for posting!

  • @Tiger-sg2zj
    @Tiger-sg2zj Před rokem +25

    How I wish we could go back to the uncomplicated world shown in your old photos (minus the wars of course)
    Thank you for posting this!

    • @myself342
      @myself342 Před rokem

      Our elites are getting us there. They purposely making everything so expensive, we lemmings and our kids will be living uncomplicated times. No running water, no heat at houses, no A/C at houses, electricity only for couple blubs to have light, no electric outlets, no washing machines and over all population back to these years below billion. Lets go brandon and save the planet at any cost.

    • @Tiger-sg2zj
      @Tiger-sg2zj Před rokem +2

      @@myself342 I'm on your team! That's why we need to be lions and start waking up the sheeple!!
      Pray! ...and FJB

    • @8luvbug
      @8luvbug Před rokem +2

      "Uncomplicated" Lol

    • @Tiger-sg2zj
      @Tiger-sg2zj Před rokem

      @@strugglesxxx how about being a lion in a sheepdog costume...you could be strong AND herd the sheep...
      THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

    • @clash5j
      @clash5j Před rokem +3

      Uncomplicated for WHO?

  • @ttonypayne5077
    @ttonypayne5077 Před 2 lety +20

    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.

  • @GG.098
    @GG.098 Před 2 lety +17

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

  • @janetcarbone4213
    @janetcarbone4213 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @mikeithappen
    @mikeithappen Před rokem

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

  • @saffaanuman7450
    @saffaanuman7450 Před 2 lety +5

    6:55 the natives omg

  • @MrSatts69
    @MrSatts69 Před rokem +10

    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.

  • @GeorgKeferboeck
    @GeorgKeferboeck Před rokem

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

  • @andrewbriggs6083
    @andrewbriggs6083 Před rokem

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

  • @christinegraham7693
    @christinegraham7693 Před 2 lety +4

    Interesting, if you are interested in Toronto, Canada.

  • @Fuema1990
    @Fuema1990 Před rokem

    Fascinating my brother.
    I really apreciated your video.
    Thanks

  • @davidrobinson5581
    @davidrobinson5581 Před rokem

    Love the music. Good work!

  • @jimb3093
    @jimb3093 Před 2 lety +161

    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.

    • @jesusislord6545
      @jesusislord6545 Před 2 lety +6

      Repent to Jesus Christ!
      “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”
      ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:4‬ ‭NIV‬‬

    • @marymulrooney1334
      @marymulrooney1334 Před 2 lety +9

      I wish I could go for a week visit to my home town back in the late 1880's when it was just starting out as a logging town. Would not want to stay back then, but would be nice to visit.

    • @40HistoricalFiles
      @40HistoricalFiles  Před 2 lety +5

      It really is wonderful how a city can tell you its own history! It's important for us to understand that they will be there after us and that they will continue to change along with society while still reminding folks about the ones that were there before them.

    • @kenkemzura903
      @kenkemzura903 Před 2 lety +5

      @@jesusislord6545 All hail the Invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster. He hath boiled for my sins and shed his sauce. Ramen!

    • @jesusislord6545
      @jesusislord6545 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kenkemzura903 Idolaters will NOT inherit the kingdom of God.

  • @mistiinseattle
    @mistiinseattle Před 2 lety +13

    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.

  • @humayunkhan2277
    @humayunkhan2277 Před rokem

    Very Nostalgic !!!
    Great Work

  • @margaritasalcedochavez1312

    Gracias por compartir, maravillosas fotos que hablan del paso del tiempo, de la vida en otras décadas, es una sensación de agradecimiento para todos los que vivieron en esos tiempo. Y gracias a tu abuelo también.

  • @armorer94
    @armorer94 Před 2 lety +4

    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.

  • @jamesrobiscoe1174
    @jamesrobiscoe1174 Před rokem +18

    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.

    • @grunzjr6019
      @grunzjr6019 Před rokem +3

      Not that complicated. World population doubled, tripled, septupled since then, depending on your time of reference. More people = less space.

    • @ngndnd
      @ngndnd Před rokem +1

      most of these were major cities. It makes sense

  • @bethreeve7683
    @bethreeve7683 Před rokem

    Thankyou for this. Interesting to see. 👍🙂

  • @alipeacock3685
    @alipeacock3685 Před rokem

    Absolutely brilliant . Thank you

  • @sandeesimons6045
    @sandeesimons6045 Před 2 lety +12

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

  • @randyscrafts8575
    @randyscrafts8575 Před 2 lety +27

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

  • @cricketmonday1469
    @cricketmonday1469 Před rokem

    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.

  • @Moonwalker379
    @Moonwalker379 Před 9 měsíci +1

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

  • @hippiebits2071
    @hippiebits2071 Před 2 lety +49

    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.

    • @jesusislord6545
      @jesusislord6545 Před 2 lety +2

      Repent to Jesus Christ !
      “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”
      ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:4‬ ‭NIV‬‬
      h

    • @eyecomeinpeace2707
      @eyecomeinpeace2707 Před rokem +2

      Yes I always thought that Chicago and Toronto looked similar in a lot of ways.

    • @josephinedawson3640
      @josephinedawson3640 Před rokem +1

      Yes! The mid-century moderne and streamline moderne style!

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay Před 11 měsíci

      @@jesusislord6545 yeah

  • @viewfromthehillswift6979
    @viewfromthehillswift6979 Před 2 lety +8

    1:23 The Arctic photo is just plain scary.

  • @cousasmartaenai
    @cousasmartaenai Před rokem

    Incredible! Love it!

  • @shamsherthakur5976
    @shamsherthakur5976 Před rokem

    Wow.. times they are changin .. wonderful collection

  • @kathysenn7664
    @kathysenn7664 Před 2 lety +15

    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.

    • @40HistoricalFiles
      @40HistoricalFiles  Před 2 lety +1

      You are so right, Kathy. Time doesn't stop for anyone but we'll always keep our memories close our heart. The most wonderful thing about cities is all the moments we lived in those, all the fascinating times that took place there and those can't and won't change, no matter what!

  • @DeepanjanDatta
    @DeepanjanDatta Před rokem +8

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

  • @TheBirdandEagle
    @TheBirdandEagle Před rokem

    Great video. Thank you.

  • @Thomas1980
    @Thomas1980 Před rokem +1

    FANTASTIC Video!!! Greetings from Switzerland

  • @GLET_theamateur
    @GLET_theamateur Před 2 lety +10

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

  • @ronstonge9102
    @ronstonge9102 Před 2 lety +17

    2 lessons to be learned, time waited for no one, time is a gentle healer

  • @HarrySingh9478
    @HarrySingh9478 Před rokem

    Excellent, Real hard work

  • @justdoingitjim7095
    @justdoingitjim7095 Před rokem

    I just finished scanning photos from our family albums. The differences are amazing. A small oak sapling in our front yard back in 1980 is so big today that two grown men couldn't reach around it and hold hands!

  • @tinkercedes
    @tinkercedes Před 2 lety +6

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

    • @newmanoutdoors1564
      @newmanoutdoors1564 Před 2 lety

      Agreed

    • @Dian-kb2hg
      @Dian-kb2hg Před rokem

      Sometimes when alot came from these places...you sometimes can hear a whew...can it be done.

  • @KJ-pv1uz
    @KJ-pv1uz Před 2 lety +6

    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!

  • @shubzshubu4154
    @shubzshubu4154 Před rokem

    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.

  • @jeffries1232
    @jeffries1232 Před rokem

    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

  • @daivernon3152
    @daivernon3152 Před 2 lety +4

    Nobody went to the shoe repairer at: 11:00 so it became a "Shoeless Joes", how ironic!

  • @UserName_no1
    @UserName_no1 Před 2 lety +29

    As a ' modern' person I think the medium of photography is an invaluable tool. It captures a richness that the printed word or pictures drawn on a canvas can not. As time marches on comparison photography captures for posterity's sake what is arguably considered progress.
    My favorite is the most chilling/depressing one......of the Artic. It captures how impactful humans can be on the planet. Why not the atomic dome? Because what arose from the ashes of that horrific event depicts how we can overcome tragedy. So it begs the question, how do we rebuild all that ice.....
    Right?!

    • @oooloo99
      @oooloo99 Před 2 lety +1

      The Earth is always changing.
      We have been through this cycle before. About 12 thousand years ago.

    • @UserName_no1
      @UserName_no1 Před 2 lety

      @@oooloo99 Granted, cyclical change occurs in Nature e.g. the Earth, the Sun, etc. But mitigating factors such as the burning of fuels can drastically exacerbate the negative effects which we are experiencing/witnessing with climate change. Changes that do not originate from Nature. While mankind has virtually no control over what Mother Nature does, it does control it's own behavior. And that behavior can adversely affect Mother Nature. And you know what they say....... it's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

    • @imtheboss1826
      @imtheboss1826 Před 2 lety

      What's a modern person

    • @UserName_no1
      @UserName_no1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@imtheboss1826 ok. So I made the comparison of two mediums to capture imagery. Painting versus photography. Renaissance man versus modern man.
      That help?

    • @UserName_no1
      @UserName_no1 Před 2 lety

      @@imtheboss1826 I didn't use cave drawing vs photography as that would have been comparing apples and coconuts. 😏

  • @The_SY-RSA
    @The_SY-RSA Před rokem +1

    I love the images where priceless landmarks are still kept under great care.

  • @mateusdecarvalhobueno7757

    It's impressive how time changes everything and alters everything everywhere and in our lives, amazing that some places haven't changed much, but others are unrecognizable.

    • @rmp7400
      @rmp7400 Před rokem

      @Mateus
      More revealing...than impressive...
      (just sayin')

    • @mateusdecarvalhobueno7757
      @mateusdecarvalhobueno7757 Před rokem

      @@rmp7400 For me it's impressive, why do you want to change my words?

  • @hori166
    @hori166 Před 2 lety +13

    I went to the University of Montana in 1974-75. In 2017 I returned and climbed up to the M. I should have done it when I was 21, but maybe I wouldn't have appreciated the view as much. Thanks for these memories!

  • @SteffDev
    @SteffDev Před 2 lety +4

    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

  • @caleblindley7142
    @caleblindley7142 Před 4 měsíci

    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.

  • @alexabadi7458
    @alexabadi7458 Před rokem

    nice work, thanks !