Woodstock, Vermont.
Galena, Illinois.
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
Woodstock, Vermont.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
San Francisco, California.
Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.
Urbana, Illinois.
Nevada City, California.
Nashville, Tennessee.
Silverton, Colorado.
Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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More Vintage Snapshot Galleries Here
See a “near copy” of our “sprawling, 73 Fury” in “Nevada City CA”. We had that car till summer of “1980”.
Been a few years since I went to Sta. Fe, it looked the same .
-Nate
San Francisco, California:
Envious of the “Trident” sign on the side of the building. Free yacht docking & parking. Luncheons and Cocktails. Entertainment nightly!!
Surprised that a portion of the sign is painted over in a lighter shade of green considering how progressive San Francisco was at that time. Must of been real good!! 😉
Great, and varied, selection of snapshots.
I was in Galena, IL this past year – it looks very much the same. We visited there in order to see the Ulysses S. Grant home. The town itself is now very prosperous, and seemed to have a lot of retirees and other affluent people who likely left Chicago. From a historic preservation standpoint, the town is outstanding.
Then-and-now comparison from Google StreetView below:
Eric703: Thanks for that side by side. In your newer pic, my restaurant would have been at the 3 o-clock mark. That little side street is called Perry St.
Hope you enjoyed your time in Galena. It’s truly like a town that time forgot. It’s a smaller town, but being a police officer there was more challenging. The town has a huge tourist side and although we were in a town of about 4,500 people, the population was more like a town of 100,000 with the constant influx of tourist and such. That made it more challenging because our police force was built more for a town of +/- 5,000 but it was more like working in a much larger city. I don’t live there any more, but still have many family members there and visit often.
Neat! I did enjoy visiting Galena. I’d long wanted to go there due to the Grant history, but didn’t realize until I was planning the trip that the town was a regional tourist and retirement draw. I can see why – the whole Driftless Region is beautiful, though few outside of the Upper Midwest are familiar with it.
After visiting the Grant home, we drove through Galena, and it was great to see so much well-preserved architecture. I can imagine the police work there being quite a challenge during tourist season.
How cool. That second picture (Galena, IL) is where I grew up and was a police officer. In fact, although it looks a little different now, that picture is of main street and on the left side in about the middle is where my restaurant was. Thanks for a stroll down memory lane.
The Indianapolis shot taken from the inside of a Lincoln Continental. Can anyone here narrow down the year(s) from the hood ornament?
Looks like the Omaha pic may be a through-the-windshield view too with a visible hood ornament, but can’t make out the logo at all.
I think 1966 was the last year for a hood ornament on Continentals of that era.
Love the photo of Silverton, Colorado, but how did that VW bus ever get there? There are only two auto roads into Silverton, via US Hwy 550. From the south over Coal Bank Pass (10,840 feet) and Molas Divide (10,910), or from the north over (in)famous Red Mountain Pass and the Million Dollar Highway at 11,006 feet. Either route involves miles of steep grades at high altitude, which must have been excruciating in a VW, not to mention the traffic behind it. On the good news front, Silverton has changed little over the years, as this photo from June 2023 shows. Of course, there is the stereotypical Jeep Wrangler parked in front….
If you click on the photo, it is correctly oriented…..
I want every car in the first photo. And you’ve got to love the way the kid in the back seat of the Buick on the right is looking right at the camera. Makes me wonder where she is now, and if she even remembers getting her photo taken.
I’m pleased to report that if one were just to put different cars on the street, and update the names of the businesses (Vermont National Bank is now M&T Bank) Woodstock, VT looks pretty much exactly the same this afternoon as it does in those photos…particularly the 2nd picture.
They like keeping things kind of constant in VT.
Broadway in Nashville doesn’t look all that much different aside from a decided lack of party buses (complete with screaming sorority girls) and wall to wall people. At least that’s how that block in the photo looked to me the last time I was there a couple of years ago.
The state route markers are two generations old though, they went from the MUCTD default square to the MUCTD default circle to the green-on-white ones with “Vermont” above the route number.
I agree on Woodstock not changing — I’ve been through the town many times, but not since the pandemic started.
Speaking of that photo showing Lake Shore Drive alias “LSD”, I spotted a late 2000s video posted on Youtube showing LSD in a time-lapse video and it could be interesting to compare how the landscape changed compared to that photo.
That’t the best song ever written about Chicago IMHO. Listened to it all the time on road trips down there from Madison in the late 1970s. And years later when we had kids and were driving to Chicago from the Cities we’d exit the Kennedy, head east to LSD, and play that song full blast as we drove south to the Loop. The kids loved it.
Like the “lil, Rambler American” in the first pic. Was about “brand, spanking, new” then.
Kearny St. in San Francisco. Let’s see if this works or not.
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Previous attempt vaporized? Well, it is tricky to do for me but that was Kearny St. at Washington for the San Francisco picture.
I didn’t think ANYONE remembered that Lake Shore Drive (LSD) tune. Man, what memories that brought back. In the late ‘70’s I was a social worker in Chicago and a friend of mine had that song on a 45. Along with Quick Joey Small by the Kasnetz Kats Orchestral Circus (why do I remember these things?).
My family is from Western Kansas….any number of small towns there.
I love the shot of Indianapolis. This photo is probably no newer than 1975 or so, because “the gold building” at 151 N. Delaware Street was still under construction (on the right side of the street). It got its name from the gold-tinted glass that provided the building’s facade.
This shot shows the location of two of my offices over the years. My first clerking job was on the 29th floor of the Indiana National Bank building (locally called the INB tower, and built in 1970). Then in the mid 90’s I was on the 8th floor of the Inland Building (156 E. Market), which is the early 20th century structure that appears to be across Delaware street from the gold building as it was being built. Our City-County building is the large building on the right side, which contained all of Marion County’s courts until the last couple of years.