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I love old pictures, too. There's a Courtyard hotel next door to my building that has old photos of my building (built 1912)and the ones around it from back early in the 20th Century, including the old creamery that is now the hotel. I stand and stare at this picture for several minutes every time I go in there.
we have a very nice local history museum in our town that is grossly underused. it has so many cool old pics of our town and what it looked like years ago. they used to take kids there on field trips. now i think they go to the mall
In the grand scheme of things, that wasn't even all that long ago...it's mind boggling to me that Manhattan -- and possibly not even that far uptown - was rural a century and a half ago. I remember being blown away by that in Time and Again, which I read while I still lived on the Upper West Side.
That is a cool pic...we have a museum like Kevin mentioned in our town, too, and ebay is rife with old postcards...
Old Pictures are wonderful.... My mother and I own a used furntiture store and we get all sorts of crayz stuff through cleanouts and stuff.. It makes me sad when we get old old photo albums of families... It suprises me that people get rid of their own history like that. I've actually started a 1920-40's wedding picture collection just to keep them alive... My little town has a museum in the same state of unuse as RA and Kevins' and I decided to volunteer there and now we are trying to re-vamp the exibits and think of new ways to get people to come and see our rich little history.
It is very unfortunate that people just don't care. I find it very sad.
Seems more than a few people believe they need the image as proof, and are willing to pay big bucks to own it.